Tasked with collecting the Office's Exhibition van from a (literally) back street company in Ward End, Birmingham today, after being fitted out with Sat. Broadband equipment; being extra careful with company money booked my one way rail ticket to New Street for the princely sum of £20.00 (Bargain really - Bangor to New Street, supposed to be direct but had to change at Crewe to a London Midland Service which chopped 45 minutes off the 3,5 hour journey due to "overunning engineering works") then roughed it plodded via bus from the City to the suburbs.
Driving the 27 foot unit home along the M6/M54/A5 and A55 (took 3.5 hours - so train isn't that much quicker....) - gave me some empathy with the average trucker's plight - cars hiding in the blind spots mimsing along at 50mph on dual carriageways slowing all the commercial traffic to an ungainly crawl....frustrating or what ? Ended up with my own elephant's race on the A5 at one point....learnt a lot today. Not least some patience...
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