Away: The Journey - Friday 9.7.10

We're heading to Bonny SCOTLAND for a week.

Graham stayed at ours last night, and today we beetle over to Gerrys' to pack the car and start our epic drive to OBAN.

The motor way is never ending, if you see what I mean. It goes on and on and on and on and on and on and .......

MeWally, I wonder if there's a name for a place that is known primarily for a tragedy?

This because of the chap MOTT (I don't know how to spell his name).

HERE'S A LIST

Abberfann

Dun Blaine (twice)

Hungerford

Bridgend

East Kilbride (nice name – kill bill)

There's so much of it. No wonder some hooligans take drugs.

Don't take drugs and drive. Why are they telling me?? Big yellow signs. What's the psychology of it? Has anyone stopped stuffing pills and jabbing needles as a result of these signs?

but not before the obligatory comfort stop.

In the services just before TEBAY.

Weird to sit on the loo and read this, which made me laugh so much I wee'd.

This little dog was keen to get in with us as we opened our tin of cakes.

Gotta keep the driver happy,

and cakes ARE the way to his HEART.

MeWally, Your specialist subject, MOTORWAY SERVICES.

Is there a services he doesn't know the name of??

Gone wet and claggy. Started about MANCHESTER.

The weather closed in by SHAP

Then it rained.

Gerry commented on my little point and shoot … camera.

She just chucks it down, willy nilly....

I told him it was 'Tough'.

Pongo proof, said he.

What?

It's like calling someone in the Navy a Skate, threw in Graham.

A skate?

It's the worst thing to call them, a real insult, except that all pongos are gay.

Never heard that before, Pongos, something to do with clumsy soldiers. Where do I fit into this?

I got on with some work,

With Shap over and done, the weather improved; well, it stopped raining, and that has to be good for something. We had about an hours rain, and I began to feel that I'd seen enough already. So after six or so weeks of scorching sun, I get tired of the rain within an hour.

FICKLE WOMAN

as we skimmed into SCOTLAND.

Then TRADEGAR popped up as a topic of conversation, how do people know these things?? .....

In a park in the centre of town there's the biggest lump of coal ever mined – in the world. WHY?

Oh, and, Grahams' brother was evacuated to Tradegar during the war.

They're great, but you gotta work hard with them to get what you want.

What women or sat-nav?

Both.

So wet,

such a long way,

Me Wally's stopped doing Soduku and is onto crosswords.

a long, long way,

what ever happened to the sun?

Sitting in a jam near Glasgow, all is quiet. I can hear the Doplar Effect of the oncoming vehicles and the sound of the rain crackling as, having stuck to tyres, it then lets go and splashes back onto the road.

I wonder if there's a measurable release of heat as it does this?

How would you measure it?

Turns out to be a two and a half year road repair.

BOLLARDS!!