Interesting weather in Oxford or thereabouts
I decided to go to Oxford for the first time this millennium yesterday. As the Oxford Tube stop near my house I decided to get that. About 20 miles outside Oxford the driver said something incomprehensible and pulled off the motorway and proceeded to do a detour on single track roads in nearby villages (Wallingham?). Naturally we got stuck behind a tractor. At which point the sky turned black, and the most powerful rain storm I've ever seen began. About an hour later we were now aqua-planing through the countryside, fording puddles, and a man behind me was 'phoning his friends to tell them that a wedding or similar event they were attending was in trouble because the 'marquee had blown away'. Took about three hours in the end, so basically had a few drinks in the Turf and went back to London.
posted by Matthew @ 7/23/2006 09:20:00 AM
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