Being nosey!

Mike had a hospital appointment this morning and we had to take him to the Respiratory department at Northampton General. I'm not sure that being in a hospital at the moment is a good thing, but he'd already cancelled one appointment so we'd made him go. We were there for about half an hour and he had to breathe into a mask and do various tests.

We dropped him back off at home and Keith and I popped to Tesco in Kettering to get dinner for this evening. The previously beautiful weather had turned a bit grey, and rain had been forecast but I wanted to go and look at the new road layout in Moulton because Keith and I are very nosey!

As we drove over it started to rain but we pressed on and left the car by the Shell garage on the outskirts of Moulton. The old part of the A43 has been closed completely and anyone living further down the road has to drive into the village and access it by another road. I should think the local residents are a bit irritated!

Keith and I have been using this stretch of the A43 for over thirty years and it was weird to see it so empty - like a ghost road! I suppose the residents must love having it so quiet, though, after years of it being so busy!

We walked right down the road, almost to the Round Spinney roundabout where a lot of roadworks were still taking place, as they were building a new road to link onto the dual carriageway. We think this meant that the people living right next to the roundabout would have to drive along the stretch of new road up to a new roundabout if they wanted to go into Northampton.

On the way back to the car we diverted down a road that used to lead straight to the village of Overstone but which has now been cut in half, with the new bypass road running through it. There was a new phase of homes being built here and we managed to find out way through the maze of building works back out to the old road.

While we were walking through the new estate I said to Keith that we could be anywhere and I certainly didn't feel like I was still in Northampton. It all looked so strange!

Back at the car I bought a pack of biscuits to have with a welcome cup of tea at home as we were now wet and cold. It had started to rain heavily so we fled home and put the heating on!