In with bang

I had to laugh at Donald Macleod’s gloomy predictions in last week’s paper.

Who could have forecast that four of my friends would be hospitalised over Christmas, our New Year party cancelled, and, in the early hours of Sunday, a car driven at high speed into the study of our house.

It flattened a 10-foot tree, our neighbour’s gate and the railings that were installed in 1868. It also took out the wall beneath our sash window, throwing the stone lintel three feet into the room. The room looks like an earthquake has struck. Happy New Year!

– Elizabeth O’regan, Lincoln