It's become a good deal milder since last week. No frost on the car, but today was another matter. We've left a lot of our Christmas shopping to the last minute, due mostly because of Carol's illness. I did have to defrost the car this morning, a job that takes a good 20 minutes. Fortunately the new Renault has a good heating system, but I still had to use defrost spray I had bought in Sainsbury's a few days ago.
Only a week to go to Christmas Day and we still hadn't bought food for our Christmas dinner. Infact there was a lot of stuff we'd need such as wrapping paper and one or two Christmas cards we needed. There was the possibility that we wouldn't even be able to buy a turkey and such things like brandy butter, but when I went to Sainsbury's I needn't have worried as they seemed to have quite a good stock of all these festive items. In the end we decided on a turkey crown, rather than an entire turkey as we would be on our on Christmas Day.
Carol is busy occupying her time doing crochet. She has already made Alfie a really snug and warm blanket as well as her mum and myself a scarf. She's even made a Minion toy. I'm not sure what she's making at the moment, but at lunch time she ran out of wool. So I drove over to Rooksley and went to Hobbycraft to buy a couple of balls of wool to keep the crochet-work going. The place was heaving with shoppers. But fortunately I managed to find a parking space.
As you enter this retail park you have to turn in from the road outside. On leaving, you aren't supposed to turn right and then onto the main grid road. It can be extremely difficult and somewhat dangerous, so the Council or whoever is in charge of roads around Milton Keynes, put a barrier in the centre of the road which prevents the right turn manoeuvre, but even with this in place some drivers ignore it. They have done this at the Stadium, where there is a new exit from the retail park (which has Marks and Spencer, Primark and other stores in it's parade of shops.) You would think that it would be easy enough to just accept these obstructions, more on safety grounds than anything else. It's quite busy along this stretch of road, but no, there are still idiots who think it's fine to ignore these barriers and still insist on turning right. It's never much of a problem if you are either lost or can't get out of a road onto a grid road around Milton Keynes, because you can just drive to the nearest roundabout, never more than a mile away, drive around the roundabout and go back the way you came. This happens at Waitrose at Oakgrove. It is more or less impossible to turn right out of this junction, but it's not a problem to just turn left and then round the roundabout and back onto Chaffron Way. But as with the other junctions, but a lot of people just don't have the sense to just do the obvious thing and do what is safest. When there's rules in place, there's always someone who chooses to ignore them. Then they wonder how they get into serious road accidents. The same with those who choose to cross the grid roads without being careful when it's safer to use the under-passes or bridges which are there for this purpose. Quite a few people have been killed doing this, and I often see people risking their lives by crossing the busiest of grid roads. Often children from Milton Keynes Academy when they've left at going-home time, running across the carriageway towards the bus stop near Eaglestone.
Carol is busy occupying her time doing crochet. She has already made Alfie a really snug and warm blanket as well as her mum and myself a scarf. She's even made a Minion toy. I'm not sure what she's making at the moment, but at lunch time she ran out of wool. So I drove over to Rooksley and went to Hobbycraft to buy a couple of balls of wool to keep the crochet-work going. The place was heaving with shoppers. But fortunately I managed to find a parking space.
As you enter this retail park you have to turn in from the road outside. On leaving, you aren't supposed to turn right and then onto the main grid road. It can be extremely difficult and somewhat dangerous, so the Council or whoever is in charge of roads around Milton Keynes, put a barrier in the centre of the road which prevents the right turn manoeuvre, but even with this in place some drivers ignore it. They have done this at the Stadium, where there is a new exit from the retail park (which has Marks and Spencer, Primark and other stores in it's parade of shops.) You would think that it would be easy enough to just accept these obstructions, more on safety grounds than anything else. It's quite busy along this stretch of road, but no, there are still idiots who think it's fine to ignore these barriers and still insist on turning right. It's never much of a problem if you are either lost or can't get out of a road onto a grid road around Milton Keynes, because you can just drive to the nearest roundabout, never more than a mile away, drive around the roundabout and go back the way you came. This happens at Waitrose at Oakgrove. It is more or less impossible to turn right out of this junction, but it's not a problem to just turn left and then round the roundabout and back onto Chaffron Way. But as with the other junctions, but a lot of people just don't have the sense to just do the obvious thing and do what is safest. When there's rules in place, there's always someone who chooses to ignore them. Then they wonder how they get into serious road accidents. The same with those who choose to cross the grid roads without being careful when it's safer to use the under-passes or bridges which are there for this purpose. Quite a few people have been killed doing this, and I often see people risking their lives by crossing the busiest of grid roads. Often children from Milton Keynes Academy when they've left at going-home time, running across the carriageway towards the bus stop near Eaglestone.
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