catseye
Old lady trouser-smell with yesterday's knickers
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I was posting on another forum elsewhere yesterday (yes, they exist!) and it made me remember this...
In May I drove over the Yorkshire Wolds to visit a friend in Lincoln. I was aiming to go over the Humber Bridge but, because I'd borrowed a Sat Nav from a tight Yorkshireman who'd programmed it to avoid toll roads, I ended up being directed all over the place. Eventually joined the motorway at Howden, off the Boothferry Road, and yes, it was a bloody long way round and I probably spent more in petrol than the toll would have cost, but there you go.
But before this I'd driven down off the Wolds, past a layby on the opposite side of the road to me. People were picnicking there, there were trees and (I think) a kind of walk up to a hilltop? Not too sure because, as soon as I got within range of that layby I got the most weird, prickly 'I shouldn't be here' feeling and I put my foot down over that hilltop. Didn't slow down until I got to the bottom of the hill.
It was a dry, sunny Saturday, there were lots of people sitting parked up in the lay by, so I have no idea what freaked me out so badly. I don't even know what road I was on (teach me to bllindly follow a Sat Nav, eh?) only that the trees/hedges of the layby had been trimmed flat to give better access.
I've sat with maps and tried to trace my route back, and I think it may have been the A614 I was on. Does anyone have any idea where I might have been, or if there's any history connected to that layby?
In May I drove over the Yorkshire Wolds to visit a friend in Lincoln. I was aiming to go over the Humber Bridge but, because I'd borrowed a Sat Nav from a tight Yorkshireman who'd programmed it to avoid toll roads, I ended up being directed all over the place. Eventually joined the motorway at Howden, off the Boothferry Road, and yes, it was a bloody long way round and I probably spent more in petrol than the toll would have cost, but there you go.
But before this I'd driven down off the Wolds, past a layby on the opposite side of the road to me. People were picnicking there, there were trees and (I think) a kind of walk up to a hilltop? Not too sure because, as soon as I got within range of that layby I got the most weird, prickly 'I shouldn't be here' feeling and I put my foot down over that hilltop. Didn't slow down until I got to the bottom of the hill.
It was a dry, sunny Saturday, there were lots of people sitting parked up in the lay by, so I have no idea what freaked me out so badly. I don't even know what road I was on (teach me to bllindly follow a Sat Nav, eh?) only that the trees/hedges of the layby had been trimmed flat to give better access.
I've sat with maps and tried to trace my route back, and I think it may have been the A614 I was on. Does anyone have any idea where I might have been, or if there's any history connected to that layby?