Wished I had full gloves on instead of fingerless today.
Mildly scary moment on my way home, just as I left the office. As I have mentioned before, my office is in a very unsalubrious industrial estate. Working back from the main road, there's the tyre place, council transport, us, and a removal firm. Oh, and a dirty houseclean firm. So there are a lot of vans and lorries around. As I come out of the office I have to turn right into the side road which then has a left hand bend and then straight on to the main road. As I pulled out into the side road I couldn't see anything coming and set off, as shown in green, only to find a massive articulated removal lorry coming around the bend, as shown in orange. I was quite far to my right to ensure cars coming from the road around the back of the building (as shown in dotted yellow) could see me, the lorry was quite far to its right to get round the bend and to avoid the parked at the side of the road.
It was much much closer to me than I wanted it to be, especially as the rear section swung round, and I had to take a quick swerve into the footway, which is only segregated from the road by bollards. It can be difficult to see if anything's coming up the road because it slopes quite steeply down, and the space between the road and the bit of the road round the bend is usually filled with social work minibuses, plus bushes behind the fence. And at this time of year, the sun's in your eyes.
