With the traffic on motorways and large open roads - so average 5-15 above the posted limit. Sticking exactly to the limit is only going to get you rammed, flashed and cut up these days. The flashing I don't mind so much but it can distract me from putting on my makeup and dialing my coffee machine.

I must admit to being a lead-foot Lizzie when I'm out and about with the right sort of music and a sunny day.

In built up areas though, I do my best to stick to the speed limit. Especially when some boy racer screams up behind me at twice the limit. I take great delight in sticking to limits just before speed cameras so that irritating gits overtake me and get photographed speeding. One thing I really detest is the way the majority of drivers hurtle along at any speed they want and then slam on the brakes as they see a speed camera loom into view. That style of driving is even more dangerous than speeding in the first place. I've lost count of the times I've had some git in a willy-mobile cut in front of me and slam his brakes on because he didn't see the speed camera from half a mile away like I did.

On the other hand... I have actually been stopped twice now and asked why I was driving so slowly. Once was at 11pm, when pubs still closed then, and I had a new baby in the car and the other was because I was lost and trying to read road signs.

We now have the sort of car that young people associate with the older driver - until I take 'em out at the traffic lights! As Kathy Bates says in 'Fried Green Tomatoes' - "let's face it girls, I'm older'n you and have better insurance!"

LTS