We made it here ~ eventually!!!!

We are here ~ at last!!!
It has been the trip from hell!!
We spent about 2 hours ~ sitting still or shuffeling along the M6 ~ or should that be the carpark that was pretending to be the M6 Motorway today!!!

It was hot ~ the kids were fed up ~ I was fed up and then Lauren decided that she needed the toilet!! That would not usually be a problem ~ as there are plenty of service areas on the M6 ~ apart from today ~ when we just sat still and did not move VERY far each time!!
By the time we reached the petrol station ~ which was only 8 miles away ~ it had taken us nearly an hour and Lauren was very close to bursting. I had to screetch to a halt in the car park grab my bag and Lauren and Daniel and race to the toilets!! Lauren made it just in time ~ bless her!! That will teach her for drinking a whole sports bottle of juice ~ while stuck in a jam on the M6 tee hee!!!!

To while away the time as we snailed our way along the motorway at no miles an hour ~ I decided that it was very interesting looking at what was lying on the hard shoulder!! (YES ~ I know that is a very sad thing to do BUT ~ I was bored......very bored!!!). There was the usual cans, bottles, plastic bags and other assorted rubbish that the good people of England obviously find too hard to put in a bin!! But there were lots of very exciting other things ~ like shoes (lots and lots of shoes!!!) ~ not pairs of shoes~ just one odd lonely shoe ~ just lying there every now and again.....how on earth do you lose a shoe on the side of a motor way??? I haven't quite worked it out yet!! There also seemed to be alot of gloves ~ not wooly gloves ~ but sort of gardening gloves just lying about AND the item that topped it all was a pair of pants (knickers ~undies ~underwear.....under garments ~ depending on where you are from ha ha !!!).......just sort of sitting there on the hard shoulder ~ for everyone passing by to see (I don't even want to contemplate how they got there ha ha!!!)...........

I think that you have worked out now that the trip was BORING!!! The highlight of the whole day was when some stupid person hadn't closed their roof box properly ~ so it shot open as they were speeding down the fast lane and the contents all flew out over the motorway (not the M6 this time but the M56 ~ which was much more like a motorway and not a carpark!!!)........There was nearly an accident as everyone tried to swerve and avoid all the things that flew out ~ we managed to avoid a vanity case that shot out, hit the road and threw make up everywhere!!!
I was glad to get to my Mums and relax after that trip ~ believe me!!!

My Mum was totally amazed when she saw me!! I got out of the car and she just said "WOW ~ look at you!!" ~ it was a great moment ~ she keeps telling me how good I look and she said that she thinks I look more like "the old Tab!!" that I used to be (which was exactly what I wanted ha ha !!!).

I have had to steal my Mums laptop ~ as I cannot get a connection with mine yet ~ I am going to try and get a network connection later ~ but for now I am using Mums laptop!! I will try and post again tomorrow ~ hopefully from my laptop ~ but if not ~ I will have to keep borrowing this one ~ so hang on in there ~ I will be back (with something more interesting than the side of a motorway ha ha !!!) Take care XXXXX