Archive for April 2009
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Almost every morning someone makes toast in the office, and when one person has some everybody ends up being lured to the kitchen by the smell. I’m not a big toast person but every now and then I’ll make a toasted cheese and marmite sandwich instead, and today was one of those days. At least it was until I found out that Sii had eaten all the bread! So what was I to do? I had cheese, but no toast and that’s just not right! So like most inventive people I improvised and made a cheese sandwich with a difference… I had cheese, and all I needed was some crunchy carb’s to go with it. Luckily, earlier in the day I nicked the marketing department’s box of crisps and as a result, happened to have a pack of Ready Salted Walkers to hand. So, I put two and two together and present the amazing, the spectacular, breadless cheese and crisp sandwich Dr. Atkins Roll on heart disease… |
would be proud!!!
Over the past 4 years, you could ask anyone at Netbasic and they would tell you that the A3 has been the bain of my driving life. You could say that it’s partly my fault for living a) too far away and then b) closer, but still too far away. But at least in the second instance, I was sensible enough to live south of the Hindhead urghworks.
In fact, over the past year, I haven’t really suffered much A3 stress. Sure, it’s a long trip, but mostly, it’s been trouble-free. So, to celebrate my imminent third (and even more sensible) move next month, I present my final A3 rant: Hammer Lane access to the A3 southbound is a joke (as of this morning).
When I first moved to Haslemere, I used the red route to get to the A3; easy-peasy 2 minutes. Then about 2 months ago, they closed my little cut-through and I had to revert to the blue route; still pretty easy, just a couple of minutes longer because of the sharp left turn.
However today, when I started off on the blue route as usual, I noticed that the southbound traffic had been diverted over to the other side of the dual carriageway. OK, cool – “I’ve got my own private road”, I thought, and made my way down the open road towards the point where the two southbound lanes would obviously converge.
Except, they didn’t.
The road just ends. With a hotel.
So I pulled into the hotel car park and turned around, at the exact same moment, 3 other cars arrived and the confusion on their faces said it all. “What the hell is going on?” “How do I get to the A3!?”
We all turned around and set off back up my ‘private road’, back onto Hammer Lane and then followed the signs (that we’d all missed when we’d turned into Hammer Lane the first time because they were facing the wrong way) “A3 traffic Portsmouth / London”. They took us under the A3 and made us join the incredibly slow-moving northbound traffic!
All I said to myself while I was heading round the slip road was “I don’t want to go to Hindhead!!”. It would take forever!
So, I took a right at the next opportunity, spun a u-turn and then queued to rejoin the A3 southbound. So about 15 minutes after I joined the A3, I passed the same point again, but this time on a road that would not ‘run out’.
The A3 fails. But hopefully, for me – for the last time.
Yet more cryptic blog posts!
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