Friday, December 13, 2002

Another day on the M25 and the fog warning lights were up. I don't know what the rest of the M25 is like but the section I use, between junctions 9(Leatherhead) to 13(Staines) does see a little fog from time to time. Most of it is on the lowlying land alongside the motorway. I realise driving in fog requires extra care and awareness of how misleading things can be. However, when visibility is 2 miles or more why do the morons still need foglights on. If the nearest car is only 20 or 30 feet away he can see you you don't need them. If you have them on then you are driving without due consideration for other road users. It is dangerous and distracting. It doesn't help when half the morons with foglights on have them so badly adjusted that they're blinding drivers in the next lane.

I'm hoping to start a new project over Christmas so I shall either be adding some new pages to this site or linking to one of my other sites.

Back soon.

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Update from Epsom. Not really a lot to say this week. Last Sunday there was a boot sale in the Hook Road car park and all of the surrounding streets were clogged up by people parking everywhere. Why is it that some people see nothing wrong in parking on the footpath and almost completely blocking it. It's illegal and antisocial and yet the Police don't seem to care at all. At least the Government are going to do something about graffiti. They're going to allow the Police to stop anyone they suspect of being a grafitist and search them for the tools of their trade. How, is this going to work then? The Police will be too busy processing film and fixed penalty notices for Gatsos to be bothered doing this. And if they have time to search some kid who's to know he isn't a model or motoring enthusiast just out to liven up his piece of experimental art. Don't get me wrong I'm all in favour of catching people who paint or scratch crude images on someone else's property. I'm also in favour of grabbing people who drop litter and the nauseous bastards who flick cigarette butts out of car windows into my face as I am riding behind. Antisocial behaviour is antisocial and if you can't behave with a little respect to other people you deserve to suffer a loss of respect yourself. But wouldn't it be better if the Police were able to simply detain yobboes for 15 minutes or half an hour whilst they explained the error of their ways. Waste their time instead of ours.

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Continuing on in the spirit of adventure and experimentation. I am trying to see what will happen if I create this as a totally separate article. Today is Thursday 14th November. The weather started off poor and got worse until lunchtime. The wind on the motorway was strong enough to push my bike around. quite scary.