Controlled Turn

After a couple more hospital visiting sessions I set off back home at about eight o’clock and despite the windy conditions made good time until the A1(M) ground to a complete halt somewhere north of Wetherby, sadly due to a fatal accident up ahead; after a couple of hours the police finally got round to clearing the four miles of stationary traffic and with a “controlled turn” led us back, twenty vehicles at a time, to junction 47 from where I was able to find an alternative route via York – not without a final detour about a mile from home to avoid a fallen tree blocking the road, most unwelcome at what was by now half past midnight.