My tooth has refused to settle down and to make matters worse I'm suffering terribly with hay fever.
I'm waking up at 4 and my eyes are streaming and I was having trouble breathing. I was thinking of blaming a volcano in Iceland, but that would be crazy wouldn't it?
Anyway I go to work and with the help of some antihistamine's, some locally sourced honey and some eye drops, I'm on my way to Bristol.
The first thing I see worth talking about was this old Route master.
A very rare and very expensive London Double Decker Bus.
Not so rare was this old road sweeper and this range rover. It always amazes me what people let rot on their land. There was an old Volvo next to these as well.
Cherwel services was closed last week because of a fire but opened up the next day to sell fuel and overpriced snacks again.
I found a Hino truck that wasn't a tipper.
Also love this lorry. It seems to make every one that passes it smile.
Tiny mistake I made on a delivery of Bic pens. They are meant to be thrown away, but not before they've been sold.
The lad was great though and helped me pick them all up and took them as they were.
This is an optical table and cost over £30000 ! It was sent to Coventry Uni and the only problem, was nobody knew who had ordered it. It also weighed 485 kg and was meant to be on the 4th floor. It eventually went into the stores until they could find someone to own up.
A brilliant first delivery to Basildon and then a nice two hour wait to head into west London soon paid me back by being the worst job I had done in months.
Right in the middle of Soho just next to this bar was an office on the first floor were 157 packs of real oak flooring was going.
There was also 50 packs of real oak flooring waiting on the first floor to be taken back home with me.
It was very hot and to make matters worse the customer was on his own and it took the two of us over three hours to get his stuff off and my return load on.
The pub opposite got busier and busier and the sun got hotter and hotter and I got more and more exhausted and the pile of wood didn't seem to get any smaller.
We got it off the truck, but it still had to get up the tiny stairs and into the first floor office.
Just as I was about to leave, London's finest decided I had been blocking the road for long enough and put a ticket on the truck.
As I drove down the road I wished I was part of the chattering , laughing crowds in the Soho streets and not driving a great lumbering truck down them.
I passed through Camden and up to the M1 without so much as a rest as the load was needed back in Leicester straight away.
Halifax this morning and a reptile center was the place I was dreading. It wasn't so bad in the end because I only had sand and shelving on board.
A massive fish and chip drive through in Leeds and another high value load in a RSPB bird sanctuary in Yorkshire. These boilers cost over £10,000 each and are used in most new builds nowadays.
I was passed by a trio of camper vans on the way back down the M1 but only managed to snap one of them.
These are some of the other pictures taken during the week.
Here's to an easier week next week.
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