Travel chaos
Jan. 27th, 2015 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylSerious traffic chaos this evening in and around town, with one of the main roads closed after a fatal accident, problems on the M5, and various on-going roadworks adding to the problems. I left myself what I thought was plenty of time to get home and sort things out before going bouldering but in the end it took me 90 minutes to get home by bus — almost twice as long as it would have taken me to walk. By the time I finally got to town, everywhere was closing and I decided to go home, at which point I decided that after spending an hour or so standing in the cold, I really couldn't face going out again.
But I suppose I ought to look on the bright side: at least I've managed to slurp down a larger than expected chunk of Gareth Powell's Macaque Attack, leaving me at the point where Powell neatly shifts the narrative into deep space linking the Macaque novels with The Recollection, his excellent space opera which, not at all coincidentally, I read yesterday...
But I suppose I ought to look on the bright side: at least I've managed to slurp down a larger than expected chunk of Gareth Powell's Macaque Attack, leaving me at the point where Powell neatly shifts the narrative into deep space linking the Macaque novels with The Recollection, his excellent space opera which, not at all coincidentally, I read yesterday...
