I love the viaduct, but mainly from a distance, normally always used the route through the town to save money (for dog adopters) except if there was some urgency and they preferred to pay.
However, it can be a bit of a trial for a light vehicle if there is a strong crosswind. One time as I approached it I allowed a solid and fully loaded tipper lorry to overtake me and then, by means of hand signals for explanation, matched his speed to keep in the lee of his bulk. He understood completely and, once safely amongst the hills again, we bad each other a cheery wave in goodbye and thanks.
Another time, another place I was driving my loaded lorry down the M1 in similarly dangerous conditions. Ahead of me was a Transit box van, very light and very exposed, as evidenced by the fact that it was almost up on 2 wheels with every gust. So I overtook until I sheltered him completely by slowing down to his pace and was pleased to see that he was now stable.
Imagine my surprise when the dopey sod, on seeing me slow down, then accelerated to get ahead of me again and back into the full force of the gale.
I tried once more with the same result and then continued on my way leaving him to his lurching progress. Never knew if he made it or not.
I felt more like âMandyâ from the Dick Emery show - âooh you are awful but I like youâ. Imagine putting an ad on LBC for a foot massage in the most innocent of senses and finding what might come crawling out of the fetish woodwork!
I suspect that Officials will already be in the locality for 11 Novembre parade/flags/speeches, which makes it an ideal day for your Ceremony⊠2 events on the same day, very good planning.
I was expecting it to arrive through the post! I think this might be because of where we took the DELF/DALF thing - at a branch of Alliance FrançaiseâŠ
We did ours at the Institut Français in London, which is 2 seconds from the French consulate and in the heart of South Ken, ie French-London. Not so much as a handshake!
I folded 50 origami containers and filled them with a sticky assortment of 200% sugar sweets for this afternoonâs Halloween promenade organised for the village children
Outside use of water restrictions have been lifted today but still no rain apart from a quick shower last night and nothing forecast this week. My car bodywork is more mud than metal at the moment.
