15th to 17th August

Life is like a butterfly!,
originally uploaded by michelleeg.

This is taken from my email!!

"Tuesday 15th Aug saw Chrissie, Mrs D and I head for Cumbria. My boss Andrew has his home up there Nibthwaite Grange. Just south of Coniston Water for those of u who know where the Lakes District is and have been there before..

It was quite a nice time actually. Took 5 hours to drive up there (90miles most of the way........ well almost... go speed racer!!!) and 7 1/2 hours to get back.. darned rain! couldn't see 3 metres on front of me! QUite scary really but that's not all.....

Anyway took out another wing mirror! Have a bad rep for them... but this was entirely my fault... Middle of day 2 I practically fell asleep at the wheel!! Shit scary people!! Was nodding off and followed a car that I thought was moving, but realised at the last millesecond that it was a parked car! slammed on the brakes and swerved (thank G for power steering!!) out of the way clipping the left wing mirror and freaking out everyone in the car... Luckly there was no damage to the other car (i did the right thing and checked.. the poor wing mirror was a gonner though.. 7 years bad luck to me!) and i just parked the car and crashed for a half hour whilst Chrissie took Mrs D for a walk. It always amazes me how a half hour power nap can totally recharge a person!

So was fine to drive after that. Bit shaken, but certainly not stirred! Funnily enuf driving back to London the next day I was a bit wary of other cars and took note of all the goings on in the road. My boss had also made me promise that i wasn't to do over 80 miles (no fun!!) and I ended up one of the slowest cars on the road! was suprised at the diefference in speeds.. 10 miles difference was alot when most people were driving at 80 miles plus!

So my message to u is take a break when U r tired.. don't think u can survive for the next 7 miles... cos u really can't!"