Traffic Report

The Weather Dogs might be having a fine and dandy time, batting the seasons about. But the Traffic Dogs are in a very grumpy mood!

The M1 was closed on Wednesday because someone on foot was struck and killed by a van. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to find out why anyone would be foolish enough to be wandering around on a motorway. I guess I'll never know.

Yesterday, we were heading home and got to the Dronfield roundabout. The traffic was well and truly backed up. This is unusual! The police had closed the A61 and all the traffic was being diverted through Dronfield and was queued to a standstill. We went around the roundabout, back to Meadowhead and went home via Bradway, Holmefield and Barlow. Would have been a very pretty drive in daylight! I think there had been an accident on the A61. We could see lots of blue lights towards the Unstone turn off as we passed through Barlow.

It's a mercy we had Jenny with us, mind. Once we got onto the Barlow road, I knew where we were, but I've never gone via Bradway and Holmefield before.

It would be quite nice to have a smooth, untroubled, undiverted trip home this evening. Calling in at Richard's place to scrump his apples does not count as a diversion!

(I still don't know why there should have been a pedestrian on the motorway on Wednesday, but last night's amusement was caused by a small car overturning and then rolling 10' down an embankment and seriously injuring the driver. You could wish that people would be a bit more careful. People do tend to go at very high speeds on that road)