Summer Solstice

It's summer everyone!
well... june is the first of the summer months so i believe it starts on the 1st.
Atleast it's a dry day. A dry start anyway.
I hauled my sleepy body from my pit just before 06.00. This is normal for when i am working days but this was a choice this mornig.
Being Sunday being the longest day being early - it's time for another run out with the STORM!
-as seen a few days earlier -
I was in the car by 06.30 and away:::::::::::::::::: zoom zoom::::::::::

Talking as a loca.
I headed out on the Presteigne road. Hung a right at the Whitton turn. Over Whitton crossroads.
Cursing alot since the road had not long been topped.
AT the top of the Bush hung another right towards New Radnor.
In NR hung a further right on to the A44 to head west.
At Forest Inn hung a.... LEFT towards Hundred House. Sadly, this is where a sparrow decided to head-butt my nearside front wheel. Poor wee thing but i am as certain as one can be that it did not suffer. :0(
- and breathe -
Popped out at Llanelwedd where the Llan'dod road comes down. Much to my surprise a police noddy-mobile was coming out from Builth and heading north. Hmmm!
So - on over the bridge in to Builth and the old county of Brecknock!
thro' the town and out on the Cilmery/Garth/Beulah road. This is a lovely road. Plenty of ups and downs and sweeping bends. Mind you doesn't stop what little traffic is out at that time of day from cutting bends. tsk! good job i was 100 yards further back.
Beulah came... as did the turn for Newbridge.
Another cracking road full of more twists and turns.
When reaching the A470 at NoW the road seems like you don't have to think so much.
Left turn, me!
But not for long. Right turn, me for Lland'dod. It's a short but, again, twisty turny journey (ha) up past Llanyre.
I finally caught up with another vehicle but not for long.
Up to Crossgates - right for the short sprint to Penybont - left across the common and on to home sweet home. A trundle thro' town but very few people about.
Happy 5ing!

Not exciting to the world out there bt a good run for me.

Move Over, darling

Here's a lesson on what to do if you meet an ambulance.
GET OUT OF THE WAY! oh and you think i'm talking about when it's running with bright lights and an array of loud noises blaring from it's vox-box?
Put it this way, an emergency ambulance, whether it is running with all the paraphenalia
going or not is always going somewhere. Is trying to be in the right place. It doesn't have to have a patient on board. It doesn't even have to be a patient who is seriously ill but it is always going somewhere. An ambulance, when out and about on the mean streets of the UK, always has a place to go.
What about the Police? no. Cos they cruise around showing their faces trying to keep those mean streets crime-free. Fire bobbies? not quite but closer to the emergency ambulance service.
So, an ambulance conveys an ill pateint to hospital. This person is not gonna die but does require treatement somewhere down the line. The ambulance is not in a hurry. It does not play tunes or turn on the disco lights. However, the sooner it is released from that duty with that patient it may be required instantaneously to something that is life threatening. And, because no other ambulance is available that detail could've come in 5 - 15 minutes earlier; but this ambulance that is sitting behind you doing 40mph on an out-of-town A road can not pass you due to the nature of the bends, hillcrests etc etc. It can legally do 50mph (60 on dual carriageways and motorways) but you don't care. No blue lights. No sirens. No bother. However, you are holding up this ambulance from clearing sooner. The ambulance, without you on the road, may clear only 3 minutes sooner but that can be the difference between life and death. A human being may be starved of oxygen for up to 4 minutes without any noteable detrimental effect. That person having a heart attack may not have stopped breathing for a while but the instant that attack began a friend or relative has put in that 999 call. So, clock ticking. Patient still breathing and ambulance is on it's way. Crew do the do. Happiness all round.
Same scenario. Crew are returning to their general area of cover when the call comes in. They are 10 miles away. But if man-in-a-cap had not held up the flow of traffic 40 minutes earlier that ambulance could've been 5 miles away... maybe less.
An ambulance is always going somewhere.
If one is obviously wishing to travel a little bit faster than you wish then pull over. Get off the way. No one is asking you to speed up just move over, let 'em go and then carry on.
Check your Highway Code. If two or vehicles, regardless of status, wish to travel quicker than you then you should pull over anyway! that is, of course, assuming you're doing less that the top speed limit and driving conditions are conducive for the maximum speed limit.


If in doubt...........>>>>> they look like or are similar to this one -----------------------