Return of the birthday party 26/07/15

After a weekend touring Hampshire with 2599, and a few days off to recover, your blogmaster was now back to the daily grind of 'driving a desk' helping to add to Rupert Murdoch's millions (something I thankfully no longer do), however after such a successful week away, it would only be fit to 'go out on a high'...

Paul was tasked with fetching his extended family back from East Midlands Airport in 1321 after a fortnight away in Fuerteventura for his nephew Brandon's 21st, a journey on which I would also tag along between my first and second shifts back at work. A reverse of the outward run a fortnight before, we set off under the cover of darkness and after a quick coffee in the 24hr truckstop near Kegworth, set about waiting around in Donington Services before we picked the weary birthday party up at around 00:30hrs. A spirited run was enjoyed along the A453 to Colwick, where we found 1321 to have developed a bizarre electrical defect on the tail lights when they suddenly began working erratically. A brief visit to Silverdale was undertaken where the night fitters kindly took time to take a look into the sudden issue, but to no avail - it appeared we had a mystery defect, not ideal at almost 0230hrs!

Seems there was work to be done, but that is for a future chapter...