… and you turn around, that’s what it’s all about, whoah-oh
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Tell me you live in sarf London without telling me that you live in Sarf London.
If you’re from Toronto- Etobi-co
If you’re from the sticks - Etobi-coke (like Cola)
American. - Etobi-koe-kay
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I have a few candles you can borrow, if that helps. Good luck ?
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I have no candles.
Thoughts and prayers? 
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Is that like coal you can borrow 
? Or fireworks ?
In latest weather news.
South East Water have today lifted the hosepipe ban.
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Yeah they had much of their water reserves in my garage at the weekend (flooded to at least 6 inches deep)
Too cold wet and windy to play tunes. Dashing off an angry complaint to the Weather Ombudsman.
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Just one more day of heavy rain 
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I took this road
towards Oxford at lunchtime, before the signs went up. As the newspaper article hints, they are regarded as optional by the locals (me included) but I could see when the cars going my way reached the first of the low parts, where the Thames had spilled out over the road, that it was soon going to be riskier than I’d be comfortable with.
So I chose to come back a longer way, via the A34, only to find that a car had broken down on the main road into Didcot. The police had set up ad hoc alternating traffic flow around the obstacle and at 16:00 that probably cost me 15 mins of stop-start. They wouldn’t be able to maintain that though because the traffic was almost backed up onto the A34 when I joined the jam and once they get stationary vehicles on the A34 itself, especially in driving (no pun intended) rain, their nerve fails and they have to clear the blockage by having it towed away.
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I’m more than a decade out of date, but that entire region used to gridlock if someone looked askance at a road-sign, so I don’t even want to think about how it is now and with flooding underway… 
Mind, we’re pretty-much walled-in with overlapping roadworks here - all happening at once, and with the recent addition of nomadic pothole “decorating” to fill-in all the extra wear-and-tear on neglected back roads. Given it’s also raining constantly and the crews are lazy, thick and incompetent, the longevity of those repairs is measured in hours or even minutes… 
Bits of it regularly gridlock simply due to essvot - Sheer Volume Of Traffic. In a phenomenally rare event there have been reports - indeed I’ve witnessed one occurrence - of a traffic management scheme actually doing some good. Oxford has put cameras on a few of its really bad arterial roads and you get charged/fined simply for passing them. This either reduces the traffic or at least pushes it onto other roads which causes the gridlock not to happen. The one on St Clements has actually made the inbound traffic, which backs up from The Plain roundabout, much more free-flowing. It’s part of my bus route to the hospitals and would usually cost me 10-15 minutes on my way home. Now it doesn’t.
The housing developers are supposed to be paying towards the main road into Didcot to be dual-carriagewayed, at least as far as a new road north across the railway and river and into Oxford. But, of course, the whole thing is hideously snarled in planning disputes between the people who just want to get on with it and the ‘roads just encourage people to go places’ brigade who seem to wonder why anyone needs to go to Oxford anyway and, if they really do, why they can’t make a day of it and walk. In the meantime the costs rise at a near-unbelievable rate.
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Glad I was sat down for that one! My flab is erghasted!
