Progress so far...

June 30th 2009 - 22 stone 4Ibs. Current weight - 17 stone 1Ib. Weight loss - 5 stone 3Ibs. Commuting miles - 3389.
Non commuting miles - 359. Mileage this week - 101 miles. Total mileage - 3748 miles.


Monday 11 January 2010

What a morning...

We had another load of snow last night so I was digging the car out and gritting the Crescent at 0645hrs this morning, then I had to take my daughter to school as the buses weren't running and wifey doesn't drive in snow. We set off at 0745hrs and I dropped her off at 0845hrs and I have only just got back. All the main roads weren't gritted, traffic was at a standstill etc etc etc. You know the score. Absolutely bloody ridiculous. 3 and a half hours to travel a 9 mile round trip. What the f*** are we paying tax for?

Rant over.

According to the met the worst is now over, so hopefully I'll be pedalling tomorrow. Let's hope so.

4 comments:

  1. The roads were like that around here.

    I was actually rather glad to be back on the bike riding past everyone stuck in the endless queues.

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  2. 50 minutes for a 4 mile drive to work today. Joy of joys.

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  3. 1hr 40m for what is normally a 35 minute drive. Usually 18 miles but I must have done 25 as I tried several different routes before I found one not totally gridlocked.

    Nearest person to the office lives 5 miles away and it took him 1hr 30m!

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  4. According to the local news the roads weren't gritted as there was no snow forecast, seems a bit of a cop out, there was bits of snow falling this side of Brum almost all day yesterday - nothing major but hard to beleive they could be caught out so badly. I was OK, the main roads are clear enough to bike the 3 1/2 miles to work, but the wife had a nightmare on the school run.

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