Success in Leeds

Now we're motoring. All the way to Leeds and back in fact. But to get to Leeds, I must first walk to C's house as he is driving- A good half hour or so of fairly busy roads - excellent! A quiet start - Leeman road is fairly quiet, but once I get through to the other side of the town centre, I find a silver 10 at the top end of Gillygate. The time is approximately 1710.

Now spotting plates whilst in a car isn't quite as easy as doing it on foot, everthing is moving faster. And in addition you can only really look at the traffic on the other side of the road - anything in your lane tends to stay in your lane, in the same relative position to you. If the car in front isn't an 11, then it's quite likely it could still not be an 11 in ten minutes time. And dual carriageways are actually worse - if there's a barrier in the middle, it tends to be at just the right height to obscure all number plates on the other side of the road. Despite this, I manage to spot an 11 heading the other direction on the A64 (coming up towards the M1). 1650 - 2 within an hour!

And it gets better - on the A64(M) going through the centre of Leeds, I spot 12, also heading the other direction. Well to give credit where it's due, C spots it and points it out to me. He couldn't use it himself, I think he was after a 10 at this point. Sadly the excitement of me finding the 12 causes me to lose my concentration and fail to get us to come off at thr right exit. Oops. No major harm done though as we manage to turn round and get back in the right direction. Which is the direction of a big car park. Prime spotting area!

Sadly it turns out to be no use. But late in the evening, at 2250 I find a purple Ford, with a 13 on it's plate parked outside the Baracuda Bar (which used to be Poundstretcher). 4 in a day? I think that's reasonable. I'll sleep well on that success.