I can back up V-Tam on behaviour. I damaged my leg after a fall in Stroud (I have a song), and had to walk around Cirencester with a stick for a few days. There were two changes in people's behaviour. Older people (older than me, I would have said) smiled and greeted me as one of them. Mums with baby off-road vehicles expected me to get out their way, when they approached from behind without any indication, and glared at me. These were not the sort of Mums inhabiting the Jilly Cooper levels of Cotwold society, but the indigenes. I was glad to be able to put the stick aside. V-Tam can't.

Penny