Decided to have a good old RANT post today.. why not.. it can be good for you to let it all out AND I admit, I have stolen the idea from a guy I know called Jeremy who has a whole blog devoted to ranting, it’s called “What’s Gotta Go” and if you like a good rant, then there are some great ones there. 

And so to my rant… today I had to drive to the Severn Bridge (the old one) off the M4 in England from my home in Ammanford, South Wales.. like I often have to do, to pick up my son who has been visiting with his dad during his schools half term break.

Just for interest sake, there are some great pictures here on Wikipedia of various views of said Bridge..

Anywho… at the moment, on the trip to the Bridge, I have to go through a huge network of roadworks on the M4 between Junction 33 and 28 (roadworks are there until 2009, deep joy, not!).

Now as these roadworks, like many on motorways, use a contraflow system which splits some of us over onto the opposite carriageway, I am totally sure most people reading this will be familiar with those wonderful contraptions LOL – well in this one, the contraflow takes us into a single lane, 50mph speed limit and of course no passing anyone..

We are all plodding along like good kiddies at just under the speed limit (we all know the speed limit is not a target officer), nice gaps between the cars, etc, etc, blah, blah.. until about one mile into it!!!

In a nice long reasonably straight part of the contraflow (so you can see well ahead) we all start to slow down, first to 45, then 40, then the two or three cars ahead of me have to apply their brakes a bit sharpish but only for a second and then we are down to 30, oh then we go back up to 35, then 40, then 45 THEN the whole flippin scenario repeats itself AND it repeats itself for the REMAINDER of the contra flow (6 miles in total) – so obviously, by now I am looking ahead trying to see why the heck we are all playing “stop, start, stop, start” and about five cars ahead of me, I can see the tail lights of this 4×4 and ahead of that car I can see… a bloody huge gap!! between the 4×4 and the next set of people going through the contra flow, it’s easy to see, it’s almost dark so we have our lights on of course. 

What is holding this guy up? well.. as far as I could see, nothing! however every now and then, he seems to think the car behind him is a bit close, so he breaks, so we all have to break and yes of course that ends up bringing you closer to the car in front..

Guess what, you can also see the poor chump behind him as he breaks then tries to leave a reasonable distance again but with the erratic speed of said 4×4, you can see he is finding it hard.. by now I look in my rearview mirror and can see a huge tail back of cars as this has a knock on (or should I say a knock back) effect..

Now this is only just past the local areas rush hour.. so there are a ton of cars on the M4, in this freakin contraflow.. the local area by the way being CARDIFF for goodness sake, so we are talking major peeps wanting to get home to their hot din-dins lovelingly prepared for them by er… well Mr or Mrs whoever….

I can see so many shiny white knuckles as drivers grip their steering wheels probably in growing temper or possibly fear, who knows..

But still this guy persists, he must see what is happening in his own rearview mirror, his vehicle is high enough to afford him a wonderful view of the “white knuckle brigade” behind him.. so I have to assume then that he likes to do this to people, in fact, he is enjoying the power this single lane traffic is affording him.. yes he is “Drunk with power” argggggghhhhhhh!!!

You may wonder why I refer to this driver as he, him, etc.. yes it did occur to me at one point.. “is this driver a women,? she is a bit nervous perhaps” and so on… BUT it was a MAN!! oh yes.. when we FINALLY got to the end of the contraflow and got back over to our 3 lane side of the motorway, we all passed the 4×4, every one of us looking to our left as we pass (honest that guy should have been 6 foot under with the looks he got oh and the hand gestures, well, I don’t think I can go into that on this family friendly blog LOL).

I had more to rant about with the rest of the journey regarding “tail gaiters” but I see I have gone on for long enough..

Do come and join me in the comments section and tell me your rant.. go on, get it out of your system, it feels good.. you can rant about drivers if you want, or something completely different.. let’s have a rant session…

Over to you..

ChristyZ has just reported this Amber Alert on her blog “Christy’s Coffee Break”

A 5 year old boy named Adrian Jaimes was abducted from his family car this morning, this has not hit the TV News yet.

Christy is asking people to spread the news via their blogs in order to help find this boy.

You can get more information here at “KXAN.com”

Please help by using the power of the Web 2.0 communities to spread the word, let’s use the internet to try and help this family.

Thanks, Sue

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EDIT – News on 8th Feb from Christy, the boy has been found!!! YES!!! excellent, if you go to the comment section you will see Christy’s message.

 Thank you to everyone who read this and who helped.

Well I think so, the ones I have come across so far in my very new blogging career.

So I decided today to do a little thank you to one of the many people who have personally helped me and I might do this kind of thing again another time too.. who knows.. hey “I am Woman” I make things up as I go along and they ain’t a whole lot you can do about it is there? – that is not a challenge LOL

OK so a little background, I have a new blog I have been quietly working on, something completely different from this one, it’s called “World of Wellness” and will deal with all kinds of issues concerning our wellness and that of the planet we live on.

This morning I finally get down to do research for my latest article over there (which is now posted, called “Indecent Exposure, Toxins and our kids”) and in my meanderings around the internet I get totally sidetracked (I do that when I go shopping too, so be warned if you were thinking of inviting me along for some retail therapy!) and I ended up on this guys blog called “Creating an Awesome Home Business” – said guy is called Martin Malden **waves to Martin in case he is reading this** and in particular this most recent post of his “How to Create an Additional Income Stream”

Yeah I know, how the heck do I get from researching toxic chemicals to Income Streams? Well I do not know, it just happened ok, even though I am a female I do reserve the right to not know what the hell is going on with us most of the time, just like the rest of you (probably men out there) although I may not swear to that in a court of law..

Anyway, I digress as usual, if you go read Martin’s great post you will later see my first comment to him, which will explain why it interested me and since leaving that comment Martin has emailed me with all kinds of wonderful advise and offers of help.. so I say again, Arn’t Bloggers just scrumptious people? and thank you Martin for the great article and consequent offer of help.

So if you are just starting out with your own home business then I suggest you jump on over to Martin’s place for lots of useful help, you will get a nice welcome.

And Martin, I have added you to my links lower down in the sidebar.