Devizes to Luton

Today I’ve got to get us to Junction 12 of the M4 where we’re meeting Phill who’ll be driving us round the M25 and M1 to Luton.  He’s at work during the day and the earliest he can get there is about 6.30pm.  Units are supposed to be off site by 12 noon but while chatting to the Warden he offered us a stay until 2pm if we’d like it.  This was brilliant as it meant we could stay here rather than driving around and finding somewhere to stop and kill time.  Most of the morning it rained and the local ducks were enjoying the ever increasing puddle …

It finally stopped raining and although it wasn’t quite time to leave the site I decided to get on the road.  I was pretty nervous about driving the M4  and sitting around was making it worse!  The weather could have been kinder as it was raining once again but I had no choice – I had to get us there and I did!  We spent a couple of hours at Membury Services and got to Reading Sainsburys just after 5pm.  Phill was keeping in touch and letting us know how his journey was going which was great to start with but not so good once he got in a cab at Reading!!  The traffic was dire and it took ages for him to do the four miles from the station to us.  Hamish kept watch for him …

and eventually I got a call to say he had arrived and could see us.  It was really nice to be able to sit in the passenger seat while he drove us to Luton.  Thank you so much Phill for helping me on that horrible leg of the trip x