Forty minutes later Thelonious made it through the pub’s front door. It had taken him that long to find a place to park. He’d probably burned several l****s of petrol between idling in traffic and circling the village again and again until someone finally vacated a parking space. And he’d nearly lost it too, since it turned out that the obnoxious driver of the black Audi shared the same goal. They’d both been driving on the same narrow side street from opposite directions when a silver Lexus pulled away from the kerb, freeing up a parking spot. Although Thelonious was closer and on the correct side of the road, the Audi decided to pull a fast one and moved to cross over from the other side of the road to claim the empty space. Well, Thelonious wasn’t having it. He jammed his foot down onto
