Today I’m doing 95 duty (writing this in Victoria Library before driving the 17:00 from Victoria to Winchester). On the way up this morning I took the usual route using the M3 as far as Junction 2, normally I’d then then join the M25 clockwise to the M4 and then into London. However, the matrix signs were warning of an ‘incident’ on the M25. When I was a few yards short of the point of no return I saw that the clockwise M25 had a speed lmit of 20mph indicated – when it says that it’s bad! So I swopped back to continue up the M3 and use the A316 into London. Once I was past the point of no return I could see a bit more of the M25 and the problem was in the first 100 yards – after that all clear. Oh well, the A316 is only about 10 mintes slower than the preferred route I thought to myself. Not today it wasn’t, I crawled all the way :-(

My 10:30 departure to Brighton didn’t happen due to the coach I would use arriving late from Cheltenham. At least I got to have a chat with Nik of the twistedkites.co.uk blog, his departure for Manchester was also delayed. I got away at 11:05 but Nik was still loading as I passed him.

If you like spoonerisms you may have enjoyed my PA system announcement on the return from Brighton “…….. and the first aid extinguisher is located behind my seat, the fire kit is in the overhead locker” :-)