I left for work at 8.15 this morning.
Thanks to a series of obstacles and idiots I've only just sat down at my desk.
I now live in Colwyn Bay, and my journey usually takes around 20 minutes.
But not today, or for the coming weeks by the looks of things.
The A55 is closed off at Abergele/Towyn and only one lane is open. So from Llanddulas I crawled along at a snail's pace before finally, in the distance, a legion of orange cones met my befuddled gaze.
I expected to see workmen busying themselves with diggers, but of course, there were none. There were just cones, as spaced-out as the prat who decided to put them there and annoy the thousands of motorists who pass this spot every day.
I decided to turn off at Pensarn and crept past Belgrano at 20mph, rather than the limit of 40, this time because of a trailer carrying a mobile home. Is it me or do you only ever see these things when you're in a rush?
On to Towyn, where there is STILL a set of traffic lights near Jake's nightclub. There seems to be no reason for this, yet it added another 10 minutes onto my nightmare.
You then tootle along through Towyn and Kinmel Bay, again at around 20mph because of the limit over the railway bridge and a speed camera, before arriving in Rhyl.
And then you meet a new set of issues. There is nowhere to park, so after 10 minutes driving around our wonderful one-way system I managed to squeeze my car into a tight space behind an expensive-looking car in Tarleton Street.
That left me a five-minute walk away from the office, which is no problem, but today is one of the windiest we've had this year, or any other.
I was blown into a tree near St Thomas's Church and then sauntered along High Street, cold and frustrated, to be met by a man who had not had his newspaper delivered yet!
To be fair it's not supposed to arrive through your letterbox on a Wednesday morning, it should be there on a Wednesday night or Thursday at the latest. We only put it to bed on a Tuesday afternoon, so be patient - it's worth waiting for :)
If you're one of those readers who is not getting the Visitor I am as frustrated as you are, believe me. There's no point in producing a newspaper if nobody is able to read it, so call the number of our distribution office and give them a tongue-lashing - 0151 3304956.
And so the day begins.....

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