M6 Service Stations continued…

Aaagh! Middle lane drivers! Why do these cretins insist on sitting one behind another in the middle lane with no traffic whatsoever in the inside lane? Is it because they’re such nervous drivers that they can’t face having to pull out of the inside lane to overtake the odd truck? In which case they shouldn’t even be on the motorway in the first place. The queues and problems they create incense me, and they’re always totally oblivious to the congestion they create! Ok, rant over. I feel better now…..

Anyway to the matter in hand. Clawed my way out of my pit at 3am, on the road for half past to try and continue the service stations project. Headed straight up to Lancaster services where I shot 2 rolls of TMax400, and then up to Killington Lake. The light at the Lancaster services wasn’t bad just before dawn, and I reckon there should be a least a couple of possible keepers there, but by the time I’d reached Killington Lake, about half 5, the rain had started. I’d checked the forecast the previous night, and there was a faint chance of a half decent dawn, but alas it never happened. To my dismay the services themselves at Killington were closed until 7am, and I just didn’t have the time to sit around and wait for the staff to turn up and open the joint. I shot another roll around the car park and the petrol station, though I ended up pushing the TMax400 to around 3200 as it was really grey and dark and I was conscious of having come all this way only to get booted off if the authorities spotted a tripod.

Having schlepped 100 miles up the motorway, I was quite disappointed that I wasn’t going to get better shots, but hey, that’s the gamble. The journey back was horrendous. The rain and spray was torrential and that combined with the endless stream of middle lane morons made for a real pain in the ass journey which took an hour longer than it should have!

Developed the films and left them hanging to dry whilst I nipped over to college to hand in my final course work to my tutor. He’s really keen on getting me to do the degree course. He reckons that there are 3 or 4 of us that really ought to try and get on it, but it’s all a question of time and money for me. If somehow I could make some money whilst I slept, I could probably manage it, but as it is I think it may have to wait 12 months and see if my circumstances change. I’d absolutely love to do it as I’ve still got a lot to learn and I’m sure that it would really push me, which is exactly what I need. We’ll see…..

Off topic: Stumbled across this on Robert Wright’s Blog

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