Last night I parked up at the side of the road for a good sleep. But unfortunately, it didn’t quite work out like that.
Firstly, we had a heavy, torrential downpour of freezing rain that lashed the van for quite a considerable period during all night.
Added to that, we had a temperature that plummeted through the floor and it was as cold as Hades.
I’ve slept in the cold before and it doesn’t bother me, but I think that I’ve picked up a bug or something because I spent most of the night shivering.
So with a streaming head-cold, feeling absolutely whacked and not in a good mood, I hit the shops today.
Benchdollar as usual for another load of pipe clamps. Switchblade steel supplies for a load of aluminium profiles – all kinds of stuff like that. A couple of supermarkets too like Tesco’s and Morrisons, and a rummage around in my storage box to see what the Postman had brought me.
But later on, with the freezing temperatures and my streaming cold all combining to make me thoroughly miserable, I was idly surfing through the net when it came to my attention that the “Travelodge” at Poplar Motors had rooms available, and at a bargain price too.
Feeling rather under the weather like this – and there’s a lot of weather to be under right now – I’ll do myself a mischief if I keep on sleeping in Caliburn.
Poplar Motors is ideally situated for where I want to be and what I want to do, and so now I’m shacked up in a warm, comfy room with central heating and I’m not moving for the rest of the night no matter what happens.
