That morning: Wolverhampton Road resembled a car park, found my lift to work further down so jumped in. Turned round to try the Silkmore Lane/Lichfield Road route - not much better, after the bridge we went down Fairway to find we couldn't get out so turned round and went down the side streets to get onto Weston Road, which was also rammed so ended up going down more side streets to get onto Corporation Street and finally managed to work after about 45 minutes (could've walked it in that time!) where the first task was making a fooking cuppa after that mission and a half...