just what you need after a long day!

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_headline=motorists-in-bridge-collapse-drama&method=full&objectid=18530369&siteid=50003-name_page.html

I was in Coventry today for a series of technical seminars. Part of the Access User Group benefits; it came with a good lunch, good refreshments, interesting talks on SQL upsizing and programming; a demo of Office Live for Access Developers (the consensus seemed to be that without relational integrity it’s not something we’d really want to develop against!) and a rather ponderous session on Microsoft Expression that seemed to get stuck on CSS which is NOT my bag (go here http://www.csszengarden.com/ for a more enlightening presentation).

So then, just as we’re leaving – reception asked “are you going on the A46?”, “I was” my considered reply. Turns out the report of a bridge collapse was a tad exaggerated (a tad being slightly smaller than a gnat’s whisker, but larger than the number “somewhere between nought and zero”) and it was a lump of concrete falling instead. Made for an exciting journey home I thought, so I just drove off in the opposite direction for a couple of miles, set the SatNav to shortest route – and lo and behold got home in normal time, and taking the route we always used to before the A14 was built. Husband’s Bosworth my favourite village name on the way – it’s long been our term for the chair in a ladies clothing establishment where the husband can ease his weary legs and read a magazine whilst his better half peruses the latest “bargains”…