How very car-less!

So you wake up on a Sunday with a vauge plan of being in Birmingham for 7.00pm later that evening... How hard can it be?

Well, my tip is don't go to PC World before hand.

If you go to PC World at around lunchtime, you might not buy anything from there and decide to go to Coventry and look round the shops for fun ( <<< not sure about my logic there!). Upon doing this you might decide to take a 'scenic' route back to Leamington. Hey, it's Sunday. Sundays are for leasure cruises through the country aren't they?

If you do happen to find yourself in the middle of nowhere and needing the toilet, I would not suggest pulling into a Garden Centre to use their facilities as this would obviously lead you to decide to enjoy a pleasant stroll through some fields to an old bridge and church in the distance. Fresh air and excersise is not so easily obtained in todays world of office based jobs and pub based evenings.

FOR YOU SEE... such a jaunt 'cross feild and meadow, over stream and 'neath berry trees could ultimately lead to you arriving back at said Garden Centre only to find the whole place closed down, gates locked, no-one home.... and your car parked right in the middle! Not the most useful place for it to be i'm sure you will agree.

And then it starts raining!

With coat safely dry inside the car there was only one thing for it. Scale the fence and dodge the barbed wire (anyone who now wishes to ask me comically about my ripped jeans, wondering if I 'have crawled through some barbed wire recently'... the answer is now yes!) to get to my car and coat. Still couldn't get the car out though.

The rest is a long story, so here's the short of it:

2hrs 55mins later I arrive in Birmingham after scaring a middle aged woman to death by arriving unnanounced on her remotely located doorstep, ringing around local places for local people trying to locate the owners of the garden centre, walking a mile further up to 'the only pub for miles', befriending 3 boozed up old boys who agree to share with me the 'secret number' for taxi's willing to travel to the back of nowhere, waiting 30mins+ for the magic taxi, spending £20 for the journey to Cov Station, and jumping a train (only had 50p left) to Birmingham New Street.

Then saw GLC gig, it was fab!

Now todays mission is to return and find my car and pray the gates are open.
Fingers Crossed!