Today has been long and tiring. I had a busy shift at work, putting on more films until the end of September, and changing the prices, answering all the emails, and taking calls to help the girls. I also finished the moan report! Yippeee!
Things came to a head with Sharon today, though, as she was constantly off the phone on "admin". Poor Kathy kept taking calls and became a bit irritated, so she asked Sharon why she wasn't back on the phone. Sharon said she was writing an email, so I chimed in and said that we have to do that in between calls! We don't have the luxury of logging off every time we write an email, otherwise none of us would ever take a call! Before we had our present system installed, we had a ten-second pause before taking the next call and we all learnt that we could do quite a bit in that short time! I don't think she was very happy, but the honeymoon period is now firmly over and she has to do her bit to help!
Keith had driven me to work today as we were going straight to Stansted to pick up Mike and Abbie. I consulted Apple Maps, and the app said the best way to get to the airport was to drive to the A14 via the A45. I think today and tomorrow were expected to be extremely busy on the roads as people take a last holiday before the schools return, so the traffic was heavy.
We crawled between Rushden Lakes and the new, super-complicated Chowns Mill roundabout, and then to the A14. Once on the A14, we made good time and we were soon on the M11. We'd arranged to meet Mike and Abbie at the mid-stay parking as we had an hour free, so we called them and said we were about twenty-five minutes away.
Just as I ended the call, we saw a bad accident on the northbound carriageway, and the police had held up the traffic. The poor people caught up in the queues were standing outside of their cars and chatting while leaning against the central reservation (I wouldn't have done that as we were still thundering past going south!). The queues were horrendous, and at the next junction, the police were taking all the vehicles off so they didn't add to the congestion.
We were OK going south until we started to crawl as well, and we had no idea why. I had to call Mike again and say we were held up and the slow traffic added another twenty minutes to our journey.
We spotted Mike and Abbie at a bus stop in the mid-stay parking, and within minutes we were on our way home. We decided, obviously, to go home via the M25 and M1 and I was so glad we'd gone the other way first as we wouldn't have known about the hold-ups on the M11 northbound.
Predictably, the traffic was busy, especially on the M25 where there were roadworks. We made it back to Northampton at 8pm and dropped Mike and Abbie off at Abbie's Dad's house. Sophie had taken care of the chilli con carne for dinner, and we were able to sit and relax with a drink before eating at about 9pm.
After we'd eaten we stayed up later than normal and watched a great documentary about the film, Brief Encounter. It was very interesting!
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