This morning a 6 mile journey that would normally take me about 15 minutes has just taken an hour. There are road works at the entrance to Watermead where I live where they are building a new junction.

There is only 1 road in and out of Watermead and it took me 45 minutes to travel less than half a mile. This wasn’t even at rush hour and schools out so the roads are normally even quieter.

I expected there to be delays as last night it took 30 minutes to get into Watermead but this is a joke. Can’t these planners anticipate these problems and put in contingencies?

What’s worse is there is little confidence that when the new junction is completed that it will help with congestion at all and if anything the general consensus is that it will be worse.

Yet another waste of tax payers hard earned money!

Across the lake where I live we often see balloons taking off into the skies. It’s something that has always appealed to me and would be great to do but there is one problem. I’m scared of heights.

I don’t mind being in an airplane but the thought of being in an open basket looking down just freaks me out.

Once you take off there is no going back either. You can’t just say I don’t like this get me back down. You would have to wait until the flight is over so it’s something I won’t be trying anytime soon.

If you fancy it then you can get further details at Balloon Flights from Watermead.