Last Night Joys

ME AND SIMON went and saw Tim Vine’s tour last night he was very good. The place was completely sold out and the crowd really seemed to enjoy the show! I did think I might get bored, with lots of one line jokes but I didn’t and really enjoyed the whole show.

Tim is a friend of mine from when I did Panto so after the show we went for a few drinks with him and his gang which was a good laugh. Spent most of the night playing silly games to decide who should get the 6 cream eggs. Great laughs and a really enjoyed the night!

However after the excitement when we decided to leave in the early hours of the morning the journey home was rather interesting. First we simply followed the SatNav as you do, to the M6 taking no notice that there was rather a lot of lorries and cars on the A road for this time in the morning. Well it suddenly made sense when we attempted to join the M6, the geniuses that are the highway agency decided to close it for roadwork’s! Ok this was probably planned a fair way in advance, but on a busy Friday night closing one of the busiest motorways in Britain. Anyway we reluctantly started following the diversions with the SatNav constantly yelling at us to turn around! We joined the queue of lorries and other cars slowly winding out way back into Wolverhampton City Centre. More annoying was that we were travelling back exactly the same way we had come and to really rub salt into out wounds we went right back past where we had been only 30mins earlier.

Naturally it was late and the diversion signs were not that great so we simply followed the train of lorries. That was ok until we realised we were going into a 20mph zone in the very middle of the city centre. We went past Varsity, Walkabout and Oceana all busy on Friday night with drunks falling out onto the road. This seemed crazy that the diversion took us on this route on a busy night, were they after running over as many drunk people as possible?!

We had at this point turned the SatNav off, bored with its commands to “turn around when possible”. Well after a while of moaning about how stupid this was and continuing to follow the flow of traffic, we realised we had just done a big loop! It wasn’t just us though everyone had been doing the same thing, just following everyone else! Well after that we continued to this time successfully follow the long diversion and eventually joined the M6. Most of it back home was down to one lane, even though this was annoying I must admit I have never seen so many workmen actually doing some work, ever!!