I went to Birmingham today.<\/p>\n
Yes, I know.<\/p>\n
Commiserations and all that.<\/p>\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n
I went to Birmingham today.<\/p>\n
And it wasn’t even the wrong side of Birmingham.<\/p>\n
It was to our depot on the Castle Vale\/Warmley Ash (eastern) side of town.<\/p>\n
A distance of 50 miles.<\/p>\n
The last time I did this trip – about six weeks ago – I set off at 6am.<\/p>\n
And arrived at 8.55am.<\/p>\n
That’s three hours, to you.<\/p>\n
Three hours to cover 50 miles.<\/p>\n
Averaging a tad under 17mph.<\/p>\n
I would have been quicker on a horse.<\/p>\n
*pauses for hot chocolate*<\/p>\n
Today I did the journey again.<\/p>\n
47 minutes, door to door.<\/p>\n
That’s forty seven minutes.<\/p>\n
Not the 180 minutes it took me last time.<\/p>\n
How are we supposed to plan our journeys, when the spread for a 50-mile journey is from 47 minutes to three hours?<\/p>\n
Ah yes, you might say, but the last time you did the journey there was that pile-up on the motorway.<\/p>\n
No there wasn’t.<\/p>\n
I checked with Highways Agency.<\/p>\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n
I’m due back in Birmingham in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
It’ll be interesting to see how long the 50-mile journey will take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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