Not keen on sat nav. Partly because UK geography isn’t that complicated and a map for £2.99 for a service station seems much better value than paying £299.00 for a piece of technology that does much the same thing.

There is also some satisfaction in just pointing the car in the general direction of where you want to go. There’s more scope for seeing the unexpected.

Today I headed west from Sunderland after a meeting at the Civic Centre and discovered the Rolls Royce plant at the Pallion Trading Est.