The Cloud:-
picture the scene - 4pm at work, trying not to start any new bits of work and wrap up those that require it and enjoying that Friday feeling waiting crackerjack time and then home and off to the pub as is the local law round here for a friday night when......
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the bearer of bad news informs us all that the Oban road is closed and will be for 5 hours (which means that some poor traveller has had an unforunate end).
Whaur aboots?, those of us biding in the Oban direction all want to know - we all start scheming for little back roads / cut throughs through farms etc as we try and work out where the accident is and therefore how many of us are fecked for a quick route home to that nicely chillin pint
a scramble of phone calls to traffic reports, the local cop shop etc reveals that the whole road from Lochgilphead to Oban is shut and the accident is at the single track bridge on the Bealach - which means that the main road through for all of us is off limits.
We consider taking the Ford road and then cutting up the Dalavich road and back down to Kilmelford but this is prob 20 miles of single track and you know you will meet Kev and Trace on their hols whose sat nav tells them about a nice wee road but then they discover that the road is very narrow with very few passing places and they don't know where reverse is on their campervan and before you know it you've got gridlock.
So that idea is swiftly parked and we all resign ourselves to the fact that we're off down to Inveraray, over to Loch Aweside and down to Oban where we disperse onto Easdale, Seil and for me, on down to Ardfern - a total trip of 86+miles.....
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The silver lining?
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I came to work on my bikie today
picture the scene - 4pm at work, trying not to start any new bits of work and wrap up those that require it and enjoying that Friday feeling waiting crackerjack time and then home and off to the pub as is the local law round here for a friday night when......
.
.
.
the bearer of bad news informs us all that the Oban road is closed and will be for 5 hours (which means that some poor traveller has had an unforunate end).
Whaur aboots?, those of us biding in the Oban direction all want to know - we all start scheming for little back roads / cut throughs through farms etc as we try and work out where the accident is and therefore how many of us are fecked for a quick route home to that nicely chillin pint
a scramble of phone calls to traffic reports, the local cop shop etc reveals that the whole road from Lochgilphead to Oban is shut and the accident is at the single track bridge on the Bealach - which means that the main road through for all of us is off limits.
We consider taking the Ford road and then cutting up the Dalavich road and back down to Kilmelford but this is prob 20 miles of single track and you know you will meet Kev and Trace on their hols whose sat nav tells them about a nice wee road but then they discover that the road is very narrow with very few passing places and they don't know where reverse is on their campervan and before you know it you've got gridlock.
So that idea is swiftly parked and we all resign ourselves to the fact that we're off down to Inveraray, over to Loch Aweside and down to Oban where we disperse onto Easdale, Seil and for me, on down to Ardfern - a total trip of 86+miles.....
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The silver lining?
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I came to work on my bikie today
