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curraheeThe storm's been here for a few hours now, and I'm getting a little bored with all the noise. It's raining on and off (that's meant to be at its worst at around 6.00am tomorrow) and the wind is just blowing around at ludicrous speed, it's mental.
I was so lucky on the journey home though. It had been raining hard all afternoon but eased for a short time and I managed to get from the office up to the bus stop (about a half mile walk) without getting too wet. I did get blown sideways a few times by strong gusts (nearly into the road at one point, which was a bit hairy) but the rain held off until about 30 seconds after I'd got under the shelter at the bus stop and then it lashed it down! The bus was only a few minutes late and although the traffic was a bit slow up to Manadon it wasn't anything too awful. I noticed that the A38 was solid heading towards Cornwall, and when I got home I found out that the Tamar Bridge was down to one lane and was closed to high sided vehicles and caravans, so everything was moving very slowly. It sounds as though soon after we cleared the area, gridlock ensued - people are moaning on the thisisplymouth website that it took them hours to get from one place to another. Someone said they were two hours late for a family dinner, trying to get from Manadon to Ernesettle, which is a journey of about three miles or so. Nightmare!
I've had a nice relaxing evening. We watched our usual stuff (Eggheads and Escape to the Country) and then the final part of Collision, which was very good indeed, followed by Armstrong & Miller. I had planned on watching the end of the T20 between England and South Africa but the weather over there put paid to that. I didn't mind too much though because England won on Duckworth Lewis - huzzah!
My plans for tomorrow involve staying out of the weather, having a lie-in, trying to finish the book I'm reading (still The Stranger House) and attempting to write 7,500 words of my NaNoWriMo story in an attempt to catch up to the word count a little. I'm also going to cook dinner in the evening and I think I'm going to have a glass of wine, as well. I reckon I can just about cope with all that!
I was so lucky on the journey home though. It had been raining hard all afternoon but eased for a short time and I managed to get from the office up to the bus stop (about a half mile walk) without getting too wet. I did get blown sideways a few times by strong gusts (nearly into the road at one point, which was a bit hairy) but the rain held off until about 30 seconds after I'd got under the shelter at the bus stop and then it lashed it down! The bus was only a few minutes late and although the traffic was a bit slow up to Manadon it wasn't anything too awful. I noticed that the A38 was solid heading towards Cornwall, and when I got home I found out that the Tamar Bridge was down to one lane and was closed to high sided vehicles and caravans, so everything was moving very slowly. It sounds as though soon after we cleared the area, gridlock ensued - people are moaning on the thisisplymouth website that it took them hours to get from one place to another. Someone said they were two hours late for a family dinner, trying to get from Manadon to Ernesettle, which is a journey of about three miles or so. Nightmare!
I've had a nice relaxing evening. We watched our usual stuff (Eggheads and Escape to the Country) and then the final part of Collision, which was very good indeed, followed by Armstrong & Miller. I had planned on watching the end of the T20 between England and South Africa but the weather over there put paid to that. I didn't mind too much though because England won on Duckworth Lewis - huzzah!
My plans for tomorrow involve staying out of the weather, having a lie-in, trying to finish the book I'm reading (still The Stranger House) and attempting to write 7,500 words of my NaNoWriMo story in an attempt to catch up to the word count a little. I'm also going to cook dinner in the evening and I think I'm going to have a glass of wine, as well. I reckon I can just about cope with all that!
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Date: 2009-11-14 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-14 12:52 am (UTC)And the DVD is out on Monday apparently! It was very good indeed!
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Date: 2009-11-14 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-14 12:55 am (UTC)This is particularly awesome as it means I get The Fixer Series 2 at Christmas, having missed it when it was on telly! :-D
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Date: 2009-11-14 12:57 am (UTC)Oooooh. I have no clue what that is, but YAY!
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Date: 2009-11-14 01:06 am (UTC)The Fixer is made of awesome so yay indeed!
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Date: 2009-11-14 01:18 am (UTC);)