Return Trip

So I'm up super early today so that I can make the trip home in time to get to work for 9am. So I leave at 6.30 am thinking it would be more than ample time, and it was, just. I get to work with about 3 minutes to spare... the traffic was terrible!

Work was work, was work... was work... nothing particularly interesting there, but just before lunch I get a phone call from my friend telling me that something was packed in one of the boxes that I'd taken back which infact they needed quite urgently. Not being able to leave work, I promised I'd drop it off after I'd finished, so I'd see them around 8.30 pm.

So after I'd done my days duty at the desk, I nip home long enough to catch up with Phil (he probably thinks I'm a stranger by now!) and then head off back down the motorway... or so I thought.

I get about 8 miles from the m25 when the sat nav tells me that the m25 is a big no no, its off limits, we have to go another way. So we do, around the bloody town and houses too. And the traffic is horrendous, even by London standards.

I've no idea what is going on with the roads, but eventually we hook back onto the M25, and it's like a ghost town in both directions, no cars or anything... it's actually quite eerie. It's only when we go past one of those big motorway signs that can have different messages on them that we realise the m25 has been closed from Junction 23 to 21a. No wonder Sat Nav has diverted me. I give Phil a call and see if he can find out any more info, and it appears that a lorry carrying gas canisters has caught alight on the motorway and they probably won't be reopening the motorway until 5pm tomorrow.

This leaves a bit of a problem since my friends are flying out to USA tomorrow for good, from Heathrow. To get to Heathrow from theirs the best way is to go on the m25 past the junctions which are now closed and won't reopen until 5pm by which time they will probably be somewhere over the pond.

So when I finally arrive at my destination I have to be the barer of bad news, but all is not lost. We decide that we can just go around the m25 the other way (which is longer and will probably be screwed because everyone else will have the same idea).

No worries though, we'll just have to grit our teeth and bare it, shit roads are just something you have to deal with when you live in the South East.

Posted by Abi on the July 5, 2005 11:28 PM