Conscientious students of this blog will know that my local pub is the Bull Inn at the Rotherfold in Totnes, Devon.
My friends at the Bull, that is the "5.30pm to 7pm" imbibing shift, tolerate yet tire of me talking about my home city, Dundee, particularly since I only talk about the merits of its greatest football team "the famous eleven" more publicly known as Dundee FC. I've thought sometimes that my friends at the Bull have wished that I had other things to talk about. Do I always have to talk about the Dark Blues? Aren't there other topics, even if they are related to Dundee, apart from "The Dee" about which I could engage others in conversation? Surely Dundee isn't so boring a place that there is only football to talk about.
One of my early evening shift friends, RT, who has a proprietorial interest in the tavern came up with an idea that he hoped might broaden and enrich my conversational horizons. He decided that he would start our daily exchange by providing me with the current traffic report for the City of Discovery which he would glean from a website dedicated to traffic news. RT's proposal may tell you as much about him as it does about me but I anticipated this added dimension to my life with some excitement. So much so that I decided to keep a record of the data for posterity's sake.
Here is the bulletin for June 2017.
Dundee Area Traffic Report
1st No traffic reported in this area.
2nd No traffic reported in this area.
3rd No traffic reported in this area.
4th No traffic reported in this area.
5th No traffic reported in this area.
6th No traffic reported in this area.
7th No traffic reported in this area.
8th No traffic reported in this area.
9th No traffic reported in this area.
10th No traffic reported in this area.
11th No traffic reported in this area.
12th No traffic reported in this area.
13th No traffic reported in this area.
14th No traffic reported in this area.
15th No traffic reported in this area.
16th No traffic reported in this area.
17th No traffic reported in this area.
18th No traffic reported in this area.
19th No traffic reported in this area.
20th Delays on the Forfar Road, southbound in Claverhouse Industrial Park.
21st No traffic reported in this area.
22nd No traffic reported in this area.
23rd A92 Tay Bridge, roundabout both ways between A991, Thomson Avenue, and B946 closed to double-decker buses due to high winds.
24th No traffic reported in this area.
25th No traffic reported in this area.
26th No traffic reported in this area.
27th No traffic reported in this area.
28th No traffic reported in this area.
29th Slow traffic both ways between A991 Thomson Avenue and South Crichton Street due to a Little Mix Concert at Slessor Gardens starting at 17.00
30th No traffic reported in this area.
The daily traffic bulletin for the City of Dundee area for June 2017 ends here.
I believe RT and I may have tired of traffic in the Dundee area and I think I'm reconciled to being less ambitious about the breadth and depth of my discourse with others. Talking about Dundee FC isn't so bad. I hope posterity, if it cares at all, forgives me.
Not much traffic at the Bull Inn, Totnes |
My friends at the Bull, that is the "5.30pm to 7pm" imbibing shift, tolerate yet tire of me talking about my home city, Dundee, particularly since I only talk about the merits of its greatest football team "the famous eleven" more publicly known as Dundee FC. I've thought sometimes that my friends at the Bull have wished that I had other things to talk about. Do I always have to talk about the Dark Blues? Aren't there other topics, even if they are related to Dundee, apart from "The Dee" about which I could engage others in conversation? Surely Dundee isn't so boring a place that there is only football to talk about.
One of my early evening shift friends, RT, who has a proprietorial interest in the tavern came up with an idea that he hoped might broaden and enrich my conversational horizons. He decided that he would start our daily exchange by providing me with the current traffic report for the City of Discovery which he would glean from a website dedicated to traffic news. RT's proposal may tell you as much about him as it does about me but I anticipated this added dimension to my life with some excitement. So much so that I decided to keep a record of the data for posterity's sake.
Here is the bulletin for June 2017.
Dundee Area Traffic Report
1st No traffic reported in this area.
2nd No traffic reported in this area.
3rd No traffic reported in this area.
4th No traffic reported in this area.
5th No traffic reported in this area.
6th No traffic reported in this area.
7th No traffic reported in this area.
8th No traffic reported in this area.
9th No traffic reported in this area.
10th No traffic reported in this area.
11th No traffic reported in this area.
No traffic on Reform Street |
12th No traffic reported in this area.
13th No traffic reported in this area.
14th No traffic reported in this area.
15th No traffic reported in this area.
16th No traffic reported in this area.
17th No traffic reported in this area.
18th No traffic reported in this area.
Desperate Dan solves the traffic problem by walking everywhere |
19th No traffic reported in this area.
20th Delays on the Forfar Road, southbound in Claverhouse Industrial Park.
21st No traffic reported in this area.
22nd No traffic reported in this area.
23rd A92 Tay Bridge, roundabout both ways between A991, Thomson Avenue, and B946 closed to double-decker buses due to high winds.
24th No traffic reported in this area.
25th No traffic reported in this area.
26th No traffic reported in this area.
27th No traffic reported in this area.
28th No traffic reported in this area.
29th Slow traffic both ways between A991 Thomson Avenue and South Crichton Street due to a Little Mix Concert at Slessor Gardens starting at 17.00
South Crichton Street in quieter times |
30th No traffic reported in this area.
The daily traffic bulletin for the City of Dundee area for June 2017 ends here.
I believe RT and I may have tired of traffic in the Dundee area and I think I'm reconciled to being less ambitious about the breadth and depth of my discourse with others. Talking about Dundee FC isn't so bad. I hope posterity, if it cares at all, forgives me.
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