NAL, Joe
It has been that sort of day, hasn’t it?
Carinthia. xx
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We are promised rain all day but it’s sunny here now.
yardarm
get yer drinks in quick before the Rainpocalypse
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Woohoo!
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Just hit the M5 then an announcement that it was closed ahead. Ended up diverted through every maggot path in the midlands. Somehow made it to the ferry about half an hour before departure time. Don’t know how I did it - and wish never to have to do it again
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When I went to Cheltenham for the ukulele festival a couple of months back I met two friends, one of whom had come from Plymouth on the M5, the other from Leeds also largely on the M5. Both of them had hit major obstructions and had to divert onto small roads. I just went straight across from Oxford on the A40…
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Bastards HQ at it again, clearly. Sympathies.
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I lived in Bristol for a couple of decades, and I did once go along the M5 without any serious delays or closures. I was going home from Preston and it was in the middle of the night.
The A38 was often quicker, for all it is a minor road these days, just as the A5 can be a better road home to London than the M1. Both are certainly less hard on the nerves than the motorways, as is the B3181 (ie the old A38) than the M5 south from Bristol – especially in the summer when the caravans are out.
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The problem was we weren’t notified of the change of route until we were on the train back from London, so my only option was hitting the sack as soon as I got in.
We were also notified that our new sailing was delayed until 1430 - by text at 1357
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I hope they are proposing to reimburse you for your time, inconvenience and money?
It’s quite a way from Fishguard to Holyhead. You were planning to sail from Fishguard, weren’t you? Well, Goodwick…
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Pembroke originally - hence staying in Reading. Nice and convenient for an easy, leisurely drive to the ferry…
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Makes it worse: Pembroke is even further from Holyhead!
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At least we knew before we set out! Would be distinctly pissed off ifwe had to go via Pembroke
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That would really have been the pits. Still very annoying, though. Which way did you go in the end?
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Nothing as dramatic to report, but we managed to track down somewhere selling scallops in NW Scotland.
Very nice they were, too. Our weather has been, by turns, wet and sunny and we’re so laid back we’re practically horizontal.
Soo xx
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Home
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Yay! Collapsing in a dignified heap is in order, I think. Pitcher?
Gx
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Well, I don’t think I’m able for a thousand words…
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One will do: ‘glug’ 
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Morning all
Off to have my lungs checked
Well how they function checked at any rate
All good fun trying to beat machines that are measuring your intake and outage og air
Then when you are nicely gasping and anaerobic you are given an oximeter and asked to walk for 6 minutes at a reasonable rate of knots!
What this tells the insultant is beyyond me!
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