Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Emily came home saying that a poem of hers has been published in book at school,I am of course over the moon,but my doubting mind is starting to think that this could be a bit of a con - IN MY OWN OPINION - if for example a firm was to write to schools asking for poems to put in a book, then proceed to put say for example 1000 poems in this book,then say for example the parents buy the book plus two copies for loving grand parents - bish bash bosh there you have 3000 sales - as this is a NORTH WEST edition that means that there are at least 12 other areas to target - there by making 36000 sales . I only started to doubt when Jessica and Rebecca both came home with write a poem competition slips??? Still if it gets her interested in English who am I to get in the way.

I got caught in the big storm that hit the UK this week , I had the full spectrum of weather , I started at Southwaite services and hit snow on the M6 at Shap. It was deep enough to cover the whole road and force drivers to the middle lane and crawl along at 10 mph.Then I went across the A65 to Skipton , there were massive floods and sleet - as I have a thing about driving through puddles I had the time of my life . Then it was off to Ramsbottom and into the wind a small respite before being blown onto the hard shoulder of the M1 even with 28 TON of paper , I shit my pants (well nearly ). I pulled into Wooley Edge services and sat it out.I saw wagons limping in all afternoon.One bloke whos wagon was going over tried to get out of his cab only to have his door blown off.

Ive put the pictures on here as I only took three as I was to busy holding on for dear life.

The other big thing is the ability to get the BBC traffic reports 24/7 on my mobile via the main BBC web site.The quality is fantastic and more to the point its updated all the time - here is sample from the day in question

- Motorways 
M6 - 10 incidents 
M25 - 6 incidents 
M62 - 4 incidents 
M1 - 3 incidents 
M4 - 3 incidents 
M5 - 3 incidents 
M60 - 3 incidents 
M9 - 2 incidents 
M11 - 2 incidents 
M27 - 2 incidents 
M56 - 2 incidents 
A1M - 2 incidents 
M898 - 1 incident 
M48 - 1 incident 
M876 - 1 incident 
M50 - 1 incident 
M3 - 1 incident 
M20 - 1 incident 
M80 - 1 incident 
M8 - 1 incident 


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