After careful logistical preparation I managed to pick up the other 2 passengers (Sarah & Colin) for the next leg, leaving at around 6.30pm and stopping off at Sainsbury's for essential supplies we began our marathon 4 hour 49 minute journey (according to Navman) to rendezvous with Tim and Shaun. A decent start slowed only at junction 9 on the M6 by 15 minutes gave us a good run to Bridgwater before disaster stuck - a 6 mile queue of traffic that took 45 minutes to get through!!! And when we reached the end of the hold up the reason for this teeth grindingly, knuckle whitening, maddeningly frustrating endless delay was (and I kid you not) a 20 acre field filled with 100 - 150 wheelie bins that had been decorated as cows. Yes the slow-witted Southern populace of our fine England had decided that slowing down to view faux fauna was far more important than allowing the natural flow of three lanes of cars normally allowed on a British motorway. Amazingly Naggy Nigel (the idiot voice on my satnav) had negleted to inform me of the man falling asleep at the wheel of his Lexus or the crazy braking caravan driver sliding across all 3 lanes of the motorway finally managed to bring us to Plymouth.
Tim had given me (what turned out to be sh*t) directions to find the marina in which he had perched Stray Cat for the night. Nigel (for the first time in his life) insisted that I follow his instructions to drive over what appeared to be a cliff, dutifully I slowed down and approached the sheer drop at a snail's pace. Astonishingly there was a sheep's trail cut into the vertical face that we could follow and at the end of what seemed like the Inca gold trail we discovered life ( I have seen Deliverance and let me tell you I WAS worried). Having discovered the Marina, we dutifully rang Tim to announce our arrival......no answer. So we dropped in to see the Harbour Master who informed us that indeed his boat was here but Tim was absent without leave. The 3 of us decided to try out the local hostelries (according to recent blogs the most likely place to find the Gray type beast) eventually through a highly intensive and expansive search and rescue program we found our pilot for the next few days. Please stay in touch for further updates on the New Adventures of Captain Timmy and The New Gay Crew.
Post you all again tomorrow, Ian.
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