SOME weeks ago as we went to get into our little blue car, where it was parked in a layby in Sticklepath, we found a note on the windscreen. 

The note contained a lady's name and address with an apology for having scrapped our bumper as she'd pulled out from behind us.

A quick check with our mechanic confirmed our initial thoughts that it was merely superficial and not worth the bother nor cost of fixing. 

We meant to ring the lady, whose name we have now forgotten, to thank her for her honesty  —  a quality all too often in short supply in the modern world  —  and to let her know she would not need to inform her insurers.

As it is we have misplaced her note and so cannot ring her, but hope she perhaps reads the Okehampton Times (her number was fairly local) and can rest assured her honesty has not gone unnoticed nor unappreciated.

Dave Goodwin and Hilary Gillespie

Sticklepath

Okehampton