Things in Essex were pretty grim yesterday, we did have a lot of snow, but we were warned, all the major roads were clear, yet all the schools and local authority establishments were closed and the place was like a ghost town.
One problem is that many people work and live out in the countryside and there are no gritters programmed to operate on those routes.
My missus works for a local fairly large and busy haulage company in the styx and the council will not grit the road out to these villages despite several other companies operating out there and asking them to do so.
This was our untreated road in Braintree at 8:00am yesterday morning:-
She managed to get to work, but it was hard going.
This was the untreated road to her depot, 4 artics went out and 2 of them promptly slid into a ditch:-
The problem this morning was untreated ice, again all the schools are closed and the roads are appalling, it took her an hour to get in this morning.
Incidentally, some drivers really need lessons in how to deal with these conditions. I went with my missus yesterday and the standard of driving was appalling, it was an eratic driver coming the other way that forced the lorries into the ditch, later on I was watching idiots in Sainsburies driving far to fast in the untreated car park and nearly smashing into other cars because of their stupidity.
Incidentally Future Pilot, perhaps you could have removed some more snow off your car, it wouldn’t have taken long, if you thought it was a good idea to drive like that with reduced visibility and large chunks of snow falling off and landing on whatever was behind, well, words fail me.
Things in Essex were pretty grim yesterday, we did have a lot of snow, but we were warned, all the major roads were clear, yet all the schools and local authority establishments were closed and the place was like a ghost town.
One problem is that many people work and live out in the countryside and there are no gritters programmed to operate on those routes.
My missus works for a local fairly large and busy haulage company in the styx and the council will not grit the road out to these villages despite several other companies operating out there and asking them to do so.
This was our untreated road in Braintree at 8:00am yesterday morning:-
She managed to get to work, but it was hard going.
This was the untreated road to her depot, 4 artics went out and 2 of them promptly slid into a ditch:-
The problem this morning was untreated ice, again all the schools are closed and the roads are appalling, it took her an hour to get in this morning.
Incidentally, some drivers really need lessons in how to deal with these conditions. I went with my missus yesterday and the standard of driving was appalling, it was an eratic driver coming the other way that forced the lorries into the ditch, later on I was watching idiots in Sainsburies driving far to fast in the untreated car park and nearly smashing into other cars because of their stupidity.
Incidentally Future Pilot, perhaps you could have removed some more snow off your car, it wouldn’t have taken long, if you thought it was a good idea to drive like that with reduced visibility and large chunks of snow falling off and landing on whatever was behind, well, words fail me.
A shame you never saw any of his early performances or met the man PMN.
There are some performances on Youtube including an early 70’s version of ‘I’d Rather be the Devil’ which looks to have come off the ‘Whistle Test’.
It was quite something to see this figure up on stage with his sanded down Martin accoustic producing all these incredible sounds via his Synthovox thingy whatsit tape loop device or whatever it was, no clever digital electronics in those days.
We saw him at Nottingham Uni once and the floor was shaking with the incredible sounds he was producing, we couldn’t believe it wasn’t pre-recorded, but no way, it was just him, Danny Thompson even cleared off for a pint and left him to it.
My legacy from him was from one of our conversations, ‘Stick to Martin light gauge strings old son’, I still use them to this day.
He did produce an album called ‘Live at Leeds’ which captures those early live performances. Island Records wouldn’t distribute it and only a few copies were sent out from his house.
When I met him at the studio he promised to send me a copy and promptly forgot, it eventually arrived after quite a bit of reminding, hence the great signature on the back, I wonder how many copies of this album are about.
No sleeve notes or anything, just a plain white cover.
He’ll be sorely missed.
A shame you never saw any of his early performances or met the man PMN.
There are some performances on Youtube including an early 70’s version of ‘I’d Rather be the Devil’ which looks to have come off the ‘Whistle Test’.
It was quite something to see this figure up on stage with his sanded down Martin accoustic producing all these incredible sounds via his Synthovox thingy whatsit tape loop device or whatever it was, no clever digital electronics in those days.
We saw him at Nottingham Uni once and the floor was shaking with the incredible sounds he was producing, we couldn’t believe it wasn’t pre-recorded, but no way, it was just him, Danny Thompson even cleared off for a pint and left him to it.
My legacy from him was from one of our conversations, ‘Stick to Martin light gauge strings old son’, I still use them to this day.
He did produce an album called ‘Live at Leeds’ which captures those early live performances. Island Records wouldn’t distribute it and only a few copies were sent out from his house.
When I met him at the studio he promised to send me a copy and promptly forgot, it eventually arrived after quite a bit of reminding, hence the great signature on the back, I wonder how many copies of this album are about.
No sleeve notes or anything, just a plain white cover.
He’ll be sorely missed.
Did anybody see this underrated musical genius in his heyday, I saw him twice in the 70’s around the time of the immortal ‘Solid Air’ album, I was also lucky enough to sit in on a very contraversial interview he did at the Radio Nottingham studios.
For those unfamiliar with his performances I believe he features on Transatlantic Sessions, BBC4, 7:30, Friday evening.
John Martyn RIP
Did anybody see this underrated musical genius in his heyday, I saw him twice in the 70’s around the time of the immortal ‘Solid Air’ album, I was also lucky enough to sit in on a very contraversial interview he did at the Radio Nottingham studios.
For those unfamiliar with his performances I believe he features on Transatlantic Sessions, BBC4, 7:30, Friday evening.
John Martyn RIP
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