NOT(Bang!)
It took me as long to drive home yesterday as it would have done to walk under normal circumstances.
The floodlights were on and the car park was full at a quiet rugby ground as I went to sleep last night.
There is still an eerie silence here in place of the usual rush two-hour's grumble of traffic from the ring road.
Why?
Because an unexploded WW2 bomb has been found on a development site next to the theatre which last night was due to open a play about the very Blitz which put it there.
All of the city centre (bar the bus station), half of the infamous ring road, and certain approach roads - including the one I would normally travel on to get to the aforementioned ring road in the morning - were shut yesterday afternoon and bomb disposal team number 2 were just arriving as I went to my brightly-lit bedroom.
No bang yet, thank goodness, so let's hope that with the return of daylight and the dropping of the wind those experts can do their job. Coventry is recovering from the depradations of the town planners of the 50s and we no longer need such drastic measures to make us start again!
The floodlights were on and the car park was full at a quiet rugby ground as I went to sleep last night.
There is still an eerie silence here in place of the usual rush two-hour's grumble of traffic from the ring road.
Why?
Because an unexploded WW2 bomb has been found on a development site next to the theatre which last night was due to open a play about the very Blitz which put it there.
All of the city centre (bar the bus station), half of the infamous ring road, and certain approach roads - including the one I would normally travel on to get to the aforementioned ring road in the morning - were shut yesterday afternoon and bomb disposal team number 2 were just arriving as I went to my brightly-lit bedroom.
No bang yet, thank goodness, so let's hope that with the return of daylight and the dropping of the wind those experts can do their job. Coventry is recovering from the depradations of the town planners of the 50s and we no longer need such drastic measures to make us start again!