Tonight better
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Yesterday was just a terrible drive home.. 50 minutes instead of 5 minutes due to a lorry with a broken something, for me a tyre (media not yet clear). Now at home for 2 days..
I understand the Swiss really hate to be late. In 48hrs the only rural road in and out of my village will be closed permanently forcing me to use the 5th busiest road in Europe to go anywhere. The first mile of that in either direction can take anything between 2 minutes and 50 minutes and which it will be is a lottery. During rush hour (6:30am to 10:30am Mon-Fri) it will be ~50mins but at any other time it can randomly jam up and that was before they started temporary closures while rebuilding it. In theory I live 20 mins from the centre of Nottingham, 10 mins from the M1 motorway and therefore can get most places in the country in 2-3 hours. In practice from Monday I'm 1 hour from the local shop, 1 hour 15 from Nottingham and approx 45 mins from the motorway. I might as well have been beamed to the middle of nowhere in rural Lincolnshire and will now be late for everything until August 2015. :(
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I understand the Swiss really hate to be late. In 48hrs the only rural road in and out of my village will be closed permanently forcing me to use the 5th busiest road in Europe to go anywhere. The first mile of that in either direction can take anything between 2 minutes and 50 minutes and which it will be is a lottery. During rush hour (6:30am to 10:30am Mon-Fri) it will be ~50mins but at any other time it can randomly jam up and that was before they started temporary closures while rebuilding it. In theory I live 20 mins from the centre of Nottingham, 10 mins from the M1 motorway and therefore can get most places in the country in 2-3 hours. In practice from Monday I'm 1 hour from the local shop, 1 hour 15 from Nottingham and approx 45 mins from the motorway. I might as well have been beamed to the middle of nowhere in rural Lincolnshire and will now be late for everything until August 2015. :(
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Yesterday was just a terrible drive home.. 50 minutes instead of 5 minutes due to a lorry with a broken something, for me a tyre (media not yet clear). Now at home for 2 days..
A couple of years back one woman went to a supermarket on Xmas Eve. What should have been something like a 30-minute roundtrip took nearly 4 (four) hours. I'd have been in tears. I was made a redundant late November 2010 just a couple of hours before the really heavy snow fell that year. I left the office about 3pm and while it was beginning to settle on quiet roads I got home in about 35 minutes. At 5pm, one of my now ex-colleagues got snarled-up on the M25 for five hours another got back to Crawley some eight hours after leaving work. The following year it happened all over again. I picked my wife up from Thiefrow at about 6am. The drive home was uneventful and we got off the M23 literally as buckets of snow started to fall. We got home fine and an hour or two later, some 6 inches were piled on the car, all the airports closed and the following day's flight was cancelled for four days. She lamented that because if she'd been on the following day's flight she'd have had an extra four days with the family. I feel your pain about the journey. The slightest problem can make it a killer journey. Add to it the police "helping" the traffic and you have serious shit. Hope it's not as bad as you fear. :)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Well, at least our watches are precise.. But if you want to visit, your are very welcome. Tonight we have a boogy woogy night here..
Sounds like fun but if I leave now I may never get back to my house through all the roadworks. Enjoy the boogy woogy.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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A couple of years back one woman went to a supermarket on Xmas Eve. What should have been something like a 30-minute roundtrip took nearly 4 (four) hours. I'd have been in tears. I was made a redundant late November 2010 just a couple of hours before the really heavy snow fell that year. I left the office about 3pm and while it was beginning to settle on quiet roads I got home in about 35 minutes. At 5pm, one of my now ex-colleagues got snarled-up on the M25 for five hours another got back to Crawley some eight hours after leaving work. The following year it happened all over again. I picked my wife up from Thiefrow at about 6am. The drive home was uneventful and we got off the M23 literally as buckets of snow started to fall. We got home fine and an hour or two later, some 6 inches were piled on the car, all the airports closed and the following day's flight was cancelled for four days. She lamented that because if she'd been on the following day's flight she'd have had an extra four days with the family. I feel your pain about the journey. The slightest problem can make it a killer journey. Add to it the police "helping" the traffic and you have serious shit. Hope it's not as bad as you fear. :)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
Literally buckets of snow? Wow!
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Literally buckets of snow? Wow!
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
:laugh: My first thought too!
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Yesterday was just a terrible drive home.. 50 minutes instead of 5 minutes due to a lorry with a broken something, for me a tyre (media not yet clear). Now at home for 2 days..
So, reading the post after this OP about trolls and language barriers, I sort of laughed at this post. Let me rephrase with some language changes... "Yesterday was just a terrible drive home.. 50 minutes instead of 5 minutes due to a sister-in-law (one of my sister-in-law's is Laurie) with a broken something. for me a wife's nephew (his name is Tyre; pronounced Tie Ray) (media not yet clear). Now at home for 2 days.." Localized word usage can make understanding... interesting... Tim :)
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Literally buckets of snow? Wow!
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Shed-loads would have been a better choice of words used. My bad! :-D
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Shed-loads would have been a better choice of words used. My bad! :-D
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
At least it wasn't literally pissing down ;)
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Yesterday was just a terrible drive home.. 50 minutes instead of 5 minutes due to a lorry with a broken something, for me a tyre (media not yet clear). Now at home for 2 days..
Personally I feel jealous of all those have the privilege of working from home .. And I am nuts that it takes you 5min to office ... And once it took 50minutes .. so what ?
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Yesterday was just a terrible drive home.. 50 minutes instead of 5 minutes due to a lorry with a broken something, for me a tyre (media not yet clear). Now at home for 2 days..