I found it rather humbling the other day when I was spending my traditional night in watching Traffic Cops, to hear about the case of a young woman who was driving along the main A10, at night, on a shallow bend, with oncoming traffic (so dipped headlights only). She hit what she thought was an Read More… »
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» Politics and parking
Brighton. Not a place that has ever really appealed to me. Secretly, I enjoy the happiness and cheesiness of the place, but being a fellow south-coaster I can only associate it with long family get-togethers and the endurance test that is the A27. Besides, it’s only when you get away from the seafront that you Read More… »
» Figure it out
The big television showdown we’ve had for a couple of weeks now is Britain’s Got Talent (#BGT) vs. The Voice (#TheVoiceUK), featuring that Sean Conlon from 5ive. I like to watch them from the back of my sofa, or through my hands, metaphorically at least. What I actually do is put them on and then Read More… »
» Flying cars won’t take off
A story currently running claims that a car has been made that is both street legal and air legal. This is news we’ve been waiting for for a while, in fact I’m more surprised to hear that we hadn’t passed that milestone already. A flying car has always been our idea of the modern age, Read More… »
» I’ve found magic in a hopeless place
Not many places will offer you breakfast at 8am. Actually they will, but not many of these are located on the M27, which is probably the real reason as to why I ended up paying for food at Rownhams services one morning. Even for me, I should explain, this is a rare venture and it’s Read More… »
» 30 Greggs outlets come to motorway services
Following a trial opening at Lymm, which presumably was a success (more so than their experiment with Domino’s Pizza, anyway, which didn’t make enough ‘dough’), a Greggs bakery franchise will now be “roll”ed out to most Moto motorway services, with the second open by June and the rest following throughout the year. Greggs eats in Read More… »
» Stop press: I’ve just cleaned a car
I used to think cleaning was a miserable activity, but then I discovered the art of procrastination. It turns out that, when you’ve got crucial deadlines looming over you, there is nothing more important to do than clean your desk. Tidy desk, tidy mind and all that. Between bouts of tidying my desk, it is Read More… »
» Try really hard and you can get it right
Why are service stations so expensive? That’s a question operators (and by association, me) have had to answer many times before. The answer – apparently – is that they are very expensive to run. Or they’re enjoying a captive market and want to make money out of you. Somewhere around there. Fuel suppliers are often Read More… »
» Is Little Chef on the way up – via the pits?
If you were listening to Little Chef a couple of months ago when they said they were going to be opening new and refurbishing old restaurants, you were probably a bit surprised when yesterday they announced they were going to be shrinking their estate by a third – from 161 to 94 (that’s exactly a Read More… »
» Christmas-watch: it’s Christmas
Owing to my inability to type letters in to a box, I haven’t written anything here for a while. I don’t want to become one of those bloggers who is always apologising for not writing it frequently enough, mostly because bloggers are all cool and I’m not one of them. Lots of things have happened Read More… »