I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO A LAY IN AND GETTINGS MANDY'S BIRTHDAY CARD BUT THEN...

Life seems so much more busy and on a freezing cold day even my hobby can seem a bit of a chore, spring get your backside into gear and lets have some warmth please. The left hand with the broken bits resulting from the St Pauls / Fleet St filming before India is proving a nightmare in cold windy weather, it hurts like hell. Anyway a little later start today and then down through the grid lock which is SMART motorways, what a waste of money and hazard to motorists that all is. Anyway it was nearly 10am when I got parked up and walked through to my preferred spot near Crick for the DRIFT distribution centres and railhead. It was then clouding over a bit after clear blue sky but I stuck it out and got an hour then went to Stobarts cafe for a coffee and bread & butter pudding and custard.

I then headed up a bit to the roundabout I'd used over the border in Leicestershire , I also tried the back road which cuts across to the M1 or A14 , a good spot but cloud and cold put paid to that. I managed to get a second programme but be then it was hurtling through the day and I wanted to get back before the afternoon rush, anyway it was yet another nightmare, M6 past Coventry v slow, then car crash on M6 heading north near Cannock, then XPO Logistics tanker broken down in roadworks section ( more SMART motorway), then a car broken down, then at Holmes Chapel turn off another car broken down, just managed to get in before 5pm.

Then the DVD orders to sort plus general messages etc, adverts to proof read. Need to have a site meeting at St Oswalds in the morning with Keith the other church warden reference the lighting or lack of it, getting anything done can be a bit of a crawl through treacle so going to sort it between us. Phew, only the cine films I copied for Windmills at Oxford to sort out and somewhere a bit of telly and a brew. Slide show from this morning at Crick.