ZzzzZzzzZzzz...

[athersgeo]

Wow, I'm knackered. Of course, when drive 365 miles on three hours sleep you do, knackered you will be. Particularly if you then have to get up at about 8am because your cats were silly enough to spend the night out... *headdesk*

Having said that, I wouldn't exchange yesterday for anything. I had a great time in Cambridge. It was great to meet up with Jo and farmergril, the Haunted Bookshop was absolutely ace (oh, the money I could have spent in there if I'd wanted to...!), Diana Wynne Jones was wonderful (and somewhat amused that I'd travelled from Bristol to go there - as she had!) and the film - Howl's Moving Castle - was very good, if a little disconcerting: I spent the whole movie trying to remember if bits and pieces of the plot were (or weren't) from the book (which is by DWJ). Having now reread the book this morning, the thing I can't quite get over is the fact that in the anime, one of the characters changes sex! In the book, the character is male, and reasonably young, in the anime, the character's female and old. Oh well... *grin* Twas very entertaining none the less.

On the drive back, though, I saw a beautiful piece of karma. I will admit, in the first instance, I was slightly in the wrong: To wit, I was sitting in splendid isolation in the middle lane of the motorway. I'd been passing something and effectively forgotten to move back. I started to indicate to pull in, only to realise that this cocky little basket in an older red VW was screaming up the left of me. Needless to state, I stayed where I was because I really DIDN'T want to have an accident at 70mph. Now, for the benefit of American readers (where I think the law is slightly different on a state by state basis): Passing on the left/inside is strictly illegal under most circumstances, particularly on clear motorway. This red VW had NO cause to come past me like that - the right hand lane t'other side of me was completely empty and it wouldn't have taken long to pull right out. But no. He chose the illegal route. The doublely illegal route, in fact, because I was doing 70mph and he left me standing. BUT, as they say, karma's a bitch: About five yards down the road, there was an overhead gantry. With a speedcamera on. He set it off. (I saw the flash and made DAMN sure I was at or under 70 at that point - which is how I know how fast I was going!) Oh whoops. That'll be a fine and points on his license and if, as I suspect, he was doing more than 100mph, that's an instant ban, too.

I finally got back to Bristol at about 12:30am after several breaks at various services between Cambridge and Bristol - and would you believe, at that time of day, I STILL managed to lose two sets of traffic lights?!

Today's been a very quiet and gentle day - my parents are away and the bother has moved out so it's just been me and the cats (who've both been a little inclined to make sure I don't wander off again!), oh, and the pile of books I picked up yesterday *grin*

Me thinks it'll be an early night tonight, though.

Comments

[megaleena.livejournal.com]

How do you lose traffic lights?

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Have them go red just as you get to them. It's irritating at any time of day, but when they go red and the direction they go green for has NO traffic, it's even worse.

[megaleena.livejournal.com]

Ah, thought you'd lost them down the side of the sofa or something... ;)