Swindon Posse 2

Got to the Outlet Village about midday and looked in all the shops we wanted to see. Had a sandwich lunch at Brannigans -- tasty but expensive I had Brie with sun-dried tomatoes and black olives on granary bread which was nice and a big cup of hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows -- yummy :-P

Didn't get to look at the bathmats as Dave arrived to show me where to park at 2pm... then we spent about 20 minutes driving around Swindon trying to find one of the places that Dave thought was free parking (with Dave riding shotgun). Ended up using a multi-storey near the pub. Philip paid the parking to thank us for giving him a ride to the Posse.

Met several friends I haven't seen for a while which was good :-)

Felt like leaving earlier than 5pm which had been the plan -- had been hanging around until then and Philip changed his mind that he wasn't coming back with us and was going on to a meal planned after the Posse.

With 2 and a half pints of lemonade swishing about in me I ended up desperate for the loo on the way back and came off the motorway and had to have a pee behind a hedge.

Needed more petrol on the way back too.

Car was running very badly -- probably dirt from the bottom of the petrol tank disturbed when I topped up the petrol getting into the carburettor?

R was really worried about the way the car was running badly on the motorway and kept asking me to pull over and call the RAC. I felt that it was safer to continue the problem seems to have cleared now before we got home.

Going out shortly and meeting Ben for a drink in the OCG.