In theory tonight was
supposed to feature a meeting of the astronomy club. But due to a
change of the committee that runs the hall we meet in and a complete
fiasco with the year's hall bookings we were unable to have the hall
for a meeting tonight. Still, we had Stargazing Live last weekend.
That'll have to do for one month.
It was just as well the
club wasn't meeting tonight as I'd been rota-ed to do a late shift
today. The morning's lie-in was good, and I got to catch up with some
fiddling about with household paperwork. I got to have a look round
the garden pond in daylight - all looks fine to me. I even exchanged
insults with "My Boy TM" who
happened to be passing. But the best part was that I got to drive to
work in daylight. I do find leaving for work in the dark and coming
home again in the dark depressing.
Work was work, and then
home again. I got to leave a few minutes early and was making plans
for the evening. With "er indoors TM"
flogging candles I had good intentions of doing the ironing. Usually
coming home from Canterbury at 8pm is good: with no traffic on the
roads I get a straight run home. But after a couple of miles I got
stuck in a traffic jam. After twenty minutes I got as far as a
policeman who told me that the A28 was closed because of a fire down
the road. He gave me the options I could take to get home; both of
which would have added twenty miles to my journey. So I smiled, told
the copper I'd take the Stone Street option, drove into Chartham to
take a cut through that I knew, and met another copper who also knew
the cut through and had closed it. I knew another way home, so I
tried that, and after five miles I found myself at the end of a
country lane. A cul de sac. Perhaps I didn't know the area as well as
I might.
So I activated the
sat-nav. It had a go at getting me home, but on finding that two of
the roads it wanted to take were closed, and on losing the satellite
signal three times I found my patience wearing thin.
I expected to get home in
less than half an hour - it actually took just under two hours. Oh I
wasn't happy when finally I got home. And to add insult to injury,
the official traffic
update website knew nothing at all about any problems on the A28.
By the time I'd got in and had a bit of tea it was getting on for
10.30pm. I couldn't be bothered to iron: shirts will still be there
tomorrow....
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