90 miles an hour is the speed I drive

Some people really like driving.

In July I drove to Wales in a hire car

Not for any reason, it’s just sometimes

I like to drive to Wales.

I like to get the train to Scotland.

That’s me, happy, with a sandwich

by the window, I’ll pre-book my ticket

and I’ll be there with my rucksack on.

People used to have such different cars.

I think of that when I’m watching period dramas

and documentaries, I look at these olds things

that used to be new.

I love hearing people talking about hitchhiking.

‘It’s just what we used to do,’ my friend Johnny

tells me when he talks about how he has seen

every inch of this country by putting his thumbs up

at the side of the road. There is a reason

why period dramas are so popular at the moment

switch on the TV and there’ll be someone

with a bonnet on. My dad is re-reading the Morse books

he went to the same school as John Thaw

but they didn’t know each other.