It’s well under way and so far going with form. Clocks go back, end of half term and a spell of wet weather – fixture list in chaos.
However, it’s early days and and the real carnage starts in the stressful two-week run-up to Christmas. Watch out for spectacular fatals where Audis, BMWs and Mercs prefer to merge with the fast lane at motorway junctions, foreign lorries pull out blind into the middle lane and wild spins are caused by madmen tapping each other in the 120mph chase.
Even money on the big players – M25 clockwise through the roadworks on the western section, M4 flyover, Hanger Lane gyratory, M3 both ways, M6 northbound between Birmingham and Manchester, A34 where it meets the M40 at J9 and the M1 both ways south of Watford. If you’re thinking of a punt though, there’s favourable odds at the cutting at J6 M40 in the mornings when the sun shines directly into the eyes of eastbound traffic or the Woolwich ferry which sounds like it’s grinding to a halt. Or you could have a flutter on the length of the queues. More than 25 miles on the M25 clockwise southern section last night.
… at least I got home in time for the Armstrong and Miller show. Best comedy I’ve seen since Bill Bailey.
Managed to squeeze in a very enjoyable walk with Mort. Rather predictably, we got lost-ish. We misjudged how quickly it gets dark and ended up blundering round a farmyard in the pitch black, detected only by silently bemused cattle. All good fun, and if Mort hadn’t found his head torch I would still be going round in circles in a ploughed field somewhere in west Oxfordshire.
