Driving and the Ice

I have always loved driving - almost from when I first passed my driving test (30 years ago now) I enjoy driving and will often find excuses to go out for a little drive. (This has ceased a little with the price of fuel). As I get older I find it harder to do very long drives, if I have to drive somewhere further away than about 3 or 4 hours I prefer to share the driving but I think this is just concentrating for so long and of course visiting when you get there. And the fact that every where is at least 3 or 4 hours away from Norfolk.

But this morning I really did not want to drive. It was very icy outside this morning, not snowing at all but just slippery under foot and as I have already fell over a couple of times in a the last couple of weeks I think it has slightly unnerved me.

But this morning I really did not want to drive. I haven't really used the car much over the last week or so which has not helped and just the whole rigmarole of having to de-ice the car, keep it clear and the perpetual problem of trying to keep the screen clean when my washers are frozen up. I was really nervous about my 25 mile drive to work and felt very tense about slipping or sliding all over the place. Once I got going I found myself holding on to the steering wheel really tightly and giving myself hand ache.

In the end it was a fairly uneventful trip. Lots of traffic going slowly but on the whole driving carefully. But by the time I got to work I felt worn out. Not a good start to a busy active day.

And then I had to be at work, looking out of the window seeing the snow come down rapidly and wondering if the journey home was going to be just as stressful. In any event it was a quiet and not too busy trip home but I was glad to be parked up and home.