I was going to go to Cambridge today to meet up with Andrew and Fran (son and daughter) but there are so many flood alerts on my proposed route that it could take took long, and be too dangerous, to travel. So, had to call off the trip. A pity as this self same trip was called off on Monday of this week too. I checked the Environment Agency's web site for details: click on the Latest News link for details. Yesterday evening, drove to Oxford along the A34 and as we were sliding up the slip road we were faced with a huge queue of cars, vans and lorries ... we found the road flooded for around 50 yards/metres less than half a mile along the road and the massive queue was due to motorists passing through the follow water with extreme care. To my gung ho mind, they were all a bit overly cautious, especially the lorries as the right hand lane was barely wet and the left hand lane was only covered with a few inches of water. Still, it goes to show that an apparently tiny problem can have major consequences for us all. The opposite carriageway was suffering the same fate and that traffic tailed back around two miles or more. Anyway, the problem took around 4 minutes to clear in the end. So that was alright then! DW