Had a mishap at the worst time. Wifey and me are having a short weekend away for our silver wedding anniversary, up in the usual place in N Yorkshire. Got all loaded up and set off. Google Maps, being the know-all bastid it is, took us off the main roads and through a small village called Badsworth. Narrow roads and parked cars. A t**t of a van driver came around a parked car and forced me onto the pavement. Bang....tyre knackered. Car full of stuff and a dog crate in the back

Had about 70 miles ahead of me, so I wasn't gonna do it with a space saver. So......emptied the car out on to the pavement, including dog and crate. Drivers were now getting pissed off, and very close, to my car. Changed the wheel, full size wouldn't go into the well properly, so couldn't get the crate back in. Collapsed the crate, dog on wife's knee in the front, back to Barnsley for a new tyre.
Set off, from the same place I had two hours earlier, and drove along narrow country lanes and up Sutton Bank in the dark, which I'd left early enough to avoid, or so I thought. Here now, but still hacked off at van driver.
As an aside, the 60mph twisties with cats eyes are no problem, but the ones without are not nice. Couldn't put main beam on very often because of oncoming traffic (although that didn't seem to bother some of them). All of those roads should have cats eyes.