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[AtW]

I now have to decide which route to take.

Take helicopter.

threaded

[NickFitz]

Take helicopter.

threaded

If I was chasingtheaurora, I could fly my Tornado down there

[NickFitz]

I think I shall take option 1 - it's probably the easiest.

Also allows me to drive through Northampton in a bit of a nostalgia kick (I worked there for a year).

On second thoughts why on earth should I do that when there's a perfectly good ring road

[NickFitz]

Ent it a bit hot for frost?

At least around here it is...

I think it should be OK, but there are one or two spots on that road that have weird local conditions sometimes - there's a stretch where you can come off a roundabout in clear conditions and run into a bank of thick fog round the next bend, stretching for about half a mile; that's always confusing

[NickFitz]

Oh well, looks like my sis & family & father in law are coming down on Boxing Day...

What a relief.

We can all go to B&Q & buy stuff.

I should be more or less uncontrollably homicidal by that time.

I've been roped into visiting my sister's husband's parents for lunch on Boxing Day

This will last long enough that my mother will then start worrying about me driving back in the dark and exhort me to stay another night.

Unfortunately I have a prior engagement with a barstool that evening

[BrilloPad]

Pining for the fjords, what kind of talk is that? Look, why did it fall flat on its back the moment I got it home?

[BrilloPad]

"Can you tell me where my country lies ?"

[BrilloPad]

Said the uniform to his true love's eyes

[BrilloPad]

"It lies with me !", cried the Queen of Maybe

[BrilloPad]

For her merchandise, he traded in his prize