"Head out on the highway...."

Sunday, 8pm

Thought for the Day - Sugar-free banana bread stil contains calories, so there's no justification for eating it all in one day

Pug Status - Having an especially lazy day today....

Today is a cause for celebration for anyone who lives in the Hollybush area of Welwyn Garden City, for it was decreed that on this very day, the eleventh of October in the year 2009, the road known as Hollybush Lane was verily resurfaced in a new layer of tar....

I was walking Princess Pug at the time when I smelt that 'hot road' smell and saw the various diversion and warning signs wrapped round the lamp-posts with enough gaffer tape to stop a horse. A quick exchange of glances and we both knew what to do - to get in the car and experience a proper piece of road in WGC for a change....

No more will driving along that road feel like being a paranoid meerkat going through a bad attack of the DTs whilst trampolining around inside a biscuit tin. It was like being gently pushed along slowly melting marshmallow inside a hot-chocolatey velvet case of dreaminess. To put it another way, it made a change not to hit my head on the ceiling of the car every second until the outside of the car roof resembled an egg-box....

The only downside was driving on it about ten minutes after they had opened the road. With some of the surface gravel yet to bed in it felt like I was being ambushed by a gang of small children armed with pea-shooters....