Motorway honeymoon
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WELSH bride-to-be who discored that she and her groom uld not enjoy the wedding enanigan in South Wales in ne and get to Gatwick that ]ht for a flight to Majorca, has saded over the ratio for a lift to ndon by lorry or any other sans.
A night in a lorry on M4 is not idea of nuptial bliss, but the ide-to-be said they would 3ke up for lost time when they sched their honeymoon isd.
My only lift in a lorry was ort-lived. One dark night dur3 the war I was walking with a How officer along A30 in mpshire when a milk tanker )pped and the driver invited us oard. We accepted with gratde.
As he accelerated away he :ned to speak to us and saw it we had pips on our shouldHe stopped at once and switched off. "I'm not moving until you get out," he said.
The tanker was obviously not overflowing with the milk of human kindness: more likely red biddy.
THE Transport and General Workers' Union has ordered 10,000 copies of a new book for seven-year-olds, What Is a Union? Moss Evans, general secretary, has written the .foreword.
I do not recommend it for children of a nervous disposition, particularly at bedtime. They should stick to Grimms Fairy Tales and Dracula.