As you’ll know, the southbound pull-on to the elevated A34 at Pear Tree is generally a white knuckle experience - a shortish near-blind uphill slip road with a very short entry into just two lanes of dense, fast traffic, half of which can still remember belting down the M40 and then the A34 from J9 (also a barrel of laughs. Not). That’s the main route for wagons from the centre and east of the country to the channel ports at Portsmouth and Poole.
I guess the sense of relief after actually making a collisionless entry onto the main carriageway caused a momentary lapse of attention 200-300m later. And that’s all it takes …
We only had wet on the road for the first 80 miles or so today. There’s a slightly uphill section of the A1 as you approach Newcastle from the north, before dropping down to the Tyne crossing on the western bypass, which is as shiny as fuck in the wet. It’s made all the more entertaining by the roadworks which have plagued the bypass since it opened. These mean that as you crest the hill, blind from the surface reflection, you’re suddenly faced with near-stationary traffic. You did remember to check the brakes and tyres before starting out, didn’t you …
In Bristol this weekend so to the City Museum/Gallery to see the exhibition of works submitted to & by Grayson Perry for the TV show Grayson Perry’s Art Club which has had a couple of series since the pandemic began.
Some fine pieces & well worth a look if you’re anywhere near.
Decaying old, barn find, sports car made by Perry from ceramics & treated to look old & rusty. This item took shape as the second series progressed so I was pleased to see it.
ordering a new kitchen tap because the old one has absolutely had it.
Online searching for kitchen bits is an absolute shark pool, but ended up with the manufacturer quoting about £230, and online behemoth quoting £122 with next day delivery. Quite shocked by that.
Oh, and the wife discovered that back in October she deleted a £400 e-gift card because “it looked like spam” I think she’s recovered it now but I’m not going to prod that particular hornet’s nest too hard.
AM. Dropped our 2003 ford Ka off for our 3rd MOT with us then ran home 7 miles.
PM. Found out that the car had passed without fuss. The Ka interior heating and a slow puncture does need to be sorted though so some small cost is involved.
Claire wants to sell it I think it’s perfect for pootling around Devon and Cornwall.
Try to keep it while its costing nothing, you’ll struggle to get cheaper motoring.
Our 2001 Micra kept going like your KA for 10 years (structual rot caused its demise). It’s replacement was a money pit despite only doing 4000 miles a year.