Please stop the horn-honking, the face-pulling, the hand gestures.

Just stop it.

On a daily basis an elite band of people who live and work in the fair city of Newport get a right old pasting from the majority of motorsists.

Why?

Because we drive in the bus lanes outside peak times.

Newportonians will remember the imposition of the green bus lanes around the city with the polar opposite of affection.

The cacophony of protest was eventually listened to by the city council and acted upon. The result was that normal traffic is now only banned from using the bus lanes at peak times between 7.30am and 10.30am, and 3.30pm and 6.30pm on weekdays.

The rest of the time, anyone can drive in the bus lanes.

And what happens? Nobody does.

Just a small band of brave souls, like me, who risk the wrath of the rest of the traffic.

This weekend alone, my record was as follows: number of abusive shouts 1, rude hand signals 3, blaring horns 2.

And I only went out on Saturday.

Come on, give us a break. Just read the signs.

We love routine in Britain. Everything at the right time and, if in doubt, queue.

So when a well-established routine changes without warning all hell breaks loose.

Take this morning.

Monday is bin day in our street. The bin men arrive at about noon. But not today.

This morning at 7am it wasn't the alarm that woke me - it was the bin lorry.

My better half saved the day by getting our orange bin out in time, full as it was with a fortnight's worth of garden and cardboard waste.

But that wasn't the case for the rest of the street.

It must have been the quickest round in history for our bin men as ours was the only bin to empty.

By the time I set off for work an hour later the rest of the street had their bins out.

There'll be hell to pay tonight.

Great win for the the mighty Reds yesterday (no prizes for guessing who I support) but when, oh when, will Jose Mourinho learn to be a good loser?

It's not as if it happens very often to the Special One but he just can't take it. Yesterday was a classic. No handshake for Rafa Benitez and then a whinge about how tough Chelsea are finding it at the start of the season because they had so many players at the World Cup.

Right. Like no-one else did.

By Mourinho's logic, expect the likes of Reading and Watford to be setting the pace in the first few weeks of the season.