Last year we had a guest who arrived at The White House extremely late.  She apologised and explained she had been stuck on the M3 for 3 hours while the police tried to catch a swan on the motorway.

Well, can you believe it happened to me earlier this week!

It was a totally crazy adventure on my way to Reading on Monday.  The car in front of me in the fast lane suddenly slowed and swerved and my own response was obviously to do the same.  Imagine my urprise when a swan then jumped out in front of my car from the central reservation.  I just missed it (also missing the central reservation by a couple of millimetres) and looking in my rear view mirror with my heart beating rapidly, the whole of the motorway had stopped because it was just sitting on the road looking at the cars and refusing to move!

Has anyone else had a similar experience?