The Wondering Brit

So, we had a ‘little’ snow this last few days and pretty much none of it has been worth writing about.
This is contrary to the Met office giving out severe weather warnings for all the places I’ve been going!
So where have I been?
Well, as a follow on from my earlier post, on Friday I had to deliver organic milk to Yeo Valley (a company that makes nothing but yogurt) and instead of driving in and tipping, washing and being out within two hours, it turned into the best part of seven hours!
However I can’t complain as I was thoroughly warned by WKD that the place is commonly termed ‘Slow Valley’.
After that I did a couple of the usual runs to Bridgwater and went home to end up getting just three hours sleep.
The next day It was a run to Romford in Essex – they always say ‘Romford in Essex’, but in reality it is in east London.
This time there really was a threat of heavy snow and so we took 6 sacks of salt and a couple of shovels with us…
At Romford – there was NO snow! In fact it was a nice +2C and we didn’t see a snow flake all day!
Home do get 4hrs sleep and the yesterday we headed out for Bedford followed by a run into Uxbridge in west London…
It did snow on the way home, but not for long. Finally I got home at 5am this morning to get a proper sleep.

Anyway, it appears that the weather people can’t get a single weather forecast right AT ALL… Not that I’m shocked, I’m just tired of handballing sacks of salt about (half of which is now in my car – shhh!)

Funnily, when we finished work last night/morning someone pointed at a silver Land Rover in the car park and saying that they thought it looked really good. I took one look at it and said, It might look alright but it’s rear suspension is totally screwed!! Looking in the back the guy said ‘nah, it’s got 6 sacks of salt in it so it weighed down’… I replied so has my car, but it looks no different!!
You see a land Rover has a rear ‘A’ frame between the chassis and rear axle, it works as a self levelling system and is a vital part of the rear suspension. It keeps the body and axles the right distance apart so the vehicle retains it’s full off-road capability and normal driving characteristics even when towing a heavy trailer.  Some idiots remove this, however, if they don’t carry much weight the Rear A Frame Ball Joint often seizes and fails. This is a cheap part and looks like this.
So, a word of advice; it you see a Land Rover leaning backwards – DON’T get in it!!

It’s no good you know… I have to admit that every time I get behind the wheel of a truck now I actually say out loud “I don’t want to be here”.
So I’m now off until Thursday or Friday because simply I can’t be bothered to do it anymore.
I feel a need to escape Devon this week as well and while I need to sort out my place from the water damage of a week ago, it’ll just have to wait.