...because I plan to destroy it, just as soon as I take over the universe and have all the planet's bulldozers at my command.
Mum decided this morning that we should go to Winkworth Arboretum, which from our point of view is on the far side of Guildford. I drove, and she navigated, while the younger siblings sat in the back seat, and for once in their lives made relatively few annoying noises. It was all going so very nicely - until we came to a really stupid junction on the Hog's Back, where the 'straight on' bit looks like a right turn, and the bit that looks like it goes straight on is in fact an exit, from which you get fed onto a random dual carriageway of doom, which cuts through the middle of Guildford, and then disappears on the other side - without any exits!
Well, by now we were heading north-east of Guildford, when we'd planned to turn right in the town centre and head out southwards, and we ended up doing a huge loop around the country lanes outside the city (at one point, we went through Chilworth, and I was very unhappy to find myself there, because in my universe Chilworth counts as very far away from home), until we found ourselves re-joining our planned route at Godalming.
Plain sailing from there on? Yeah, right. Godalming seemed to be just a huge mass of badly-signposted roundabouts, mostly surrounded by traffic jams. And one of them was partly shut because it was half-way through being re-turfed - by 7 or 8 workmen, who were just standing around eyeballing the stack of turf as if they expected it to lay itself. Needless to say, it did nothing of the sort. The whole town was the last thing I needed after our ridiculously huge detour. Hence my decision to bulldoze it someday.
Well... the arboretum was very nice, once we got there - I have photos, which I might get around to showing you sometime - but I've decided that next time anyone proposes a day-trip, I'm going to glue myself into my chair to make sure I don't have to go. Because I've had enough of a road trip today to last me for years.
Speaking of photos, I have graduation ones: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=303702&id=729711216&l=6994d1b393. Me in a funny hat and a superhero cape B]
So, rant over.
Hopefully I'll write something a bit more positive next time... 8p
- The Colclough
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