Just a quickie, found out about an hour ago that I have to be in Somerset v-early ( 07.30 ) tomorrow. Can't be bothered to set off from Cheshire now so will just get up early. Normally I use the M6 toll to get past Brum in a morning but as I'm heading towards the M5 the more direct route would be down the "old" M6. Is the traffic likely to be OK between 4.45 and 5.15 AM ? Or should I still use the toll. Can't afford to be late. Fairly important meeting scheduled.
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While you cannot legislate for crashes etc I'd be very surprised if congestion were a problem at that hour.
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IMO you'll be fine at that time Humph unless there's been a problem, roughly 6.30 before the build ups usually start at jct 10 and its a lot shorter and quicker than the toll, which does take you a long way off route.
Safe journey tomorrow.
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Diary pages got stuck together ?
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Heh heh ! No, just one of those opportunities when one asks "how high? " when the subject of jumping is mentioned.
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I've got to go to somewhere called Corris on Thursday, I can only imagine it as a cold an very wet place. Perhaps I'll just chance it on the Sat Nav.
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Never heard of that one. Where is it supposed to be near ?
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Nowhere -hence the challenge.
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Probably will be, its up one of the valleys and used to be a slate mining village - take the road to Machynlleth and turn right up the A487... got a Railway Museum and one of those "small craft centre" shops there!
Edited by b308 on 19/08/2008 at 22:47
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That the tepee settlement near Llanidloes ?
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And i'll bet a pound to a penny that PU finds a nice little cafe tucked away there too..;)
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Yeah, just watch the herbal content of the home baking !
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I can confirm that between 4-6 am the M6/M5 is dead. Usually just HGVs and the odd bored Policeman ;)
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Thanks MLC, I'll make a point of keeping an eye out for odd policemen.
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There's plenty of them around!!
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Sailed through and back again as it happens. Thanks all.
P.S. Managed to avoid eye contact, or any other sort in fact, with the odd Policemen.
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In the Signum or the Mondeo Humph? I wonder which one you decided to keep.
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Still have both but used the Signum today. Decision is sort of made by a friend having made a surprise but very reasonable offer for the Mondeo. Just have to get around to sorting that out. Useless at that sort of thing really. Good job I allegedly have other skills !
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these odd policemen, are they odd peculiar or odd as in scattered around the motorway? jag.
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these odd policemen are they odd peculiar or odd as in scattered around the motorway? jag.
Both :)
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Probably will be its up one of the valleys and used to be a slate mining village - take the road to Machynlleth and turn right up the A487... got a Railway Museum and one of those "small craft centre" shops there!
Yep, been there nice area, often used to camp neer Cader Idris.
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Won't have time to sight-see. Off at the crack of dawn and home in a day.
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Crack of dawn - pah !
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Well 8.30am ! Then it will be dawn somewhere won't it ?
Edited by Pugugly on 20/08/2008 at 21:48
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Soft southerners. I had the whippets out for a run along the canal, the ferret brushed, the pidgeons fed and watered and a black pudding butty with pint of tea down me neck this AM and still in the car for 4.00. Aye........
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Exactly as I predicted - in the middle of nowhere and very wet. Nice roads and a half decent car to go there - a Mondeo 2.0 hire car. Impressive if a tad on the large size.
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Impressive if a tad on the large size.
What the car or driver?
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Edited by Humph Backbridge on 21/08/2008 at 17:52
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typo should have been "large side."
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Apols for the schoolboy humour PU. Stressy couple of days and steam appears from nowhere sometimes !
Re the Mondeo. Interested that you quite liked it. Petrol or diesel ? You know that thing ( or is it just me ? ) where it takes a while to get used to the general shape of a new model and for a while you prefer the old one ? I admit to having had that feeling from Cortinas through Sierras early Mondeo's etc.
Thing is, the new Mondeo has been around a while now. I just can't like it yet. It would have to be a stunning drive to make up for it. Maybe it is.
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