There and Back Again

... A Drivers Tale.

Yesterday S arrived back from Yorkshire. Today he started a week long Quaker event at Sibford School. The imbroglio that is British railways could not get him there, either from here or Yorkshire, without unjustifiable expense or life-wasting-away duration, so we decided to align trips.

Thus, while S is at Sibford, A is here from Oxford; hence we drove from Cambridge, round, round, round Milton Keynes, to Oxford, picked up A, drove to Banbury, dropped off S, and back round, round, round Milton Keynes, to home.

This was one of the leg-stretching pauses, showing a rare roundabout-free glimpse of Milton Keynes.

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Rather glad of the aircon in the car today. Even set at 25 it was pleasantly cool compared with the 31 outside. (Yes, 25. It's supposed to be warm in summer. I really don't hold with the obsession of "I have aircon; I must be refrigerated".)

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For those outside the UK, Milton Keynes is a 'New Town' invented in the 1960's. It has a grid-like road system, rare in the UK, and an obsession with roundabouts. Rumour has it, that everywhere the Traffic Engineers put their coffee mug down the contractors interpreted the resulting mark as a roundabout.