I'm away in the motorhome, and was at Salisbury until Sunday, with just about enough fuel to get me home.
Unfortunately, we were heading to Devon instead (without enough fuel to both get there and subsequently home).
I deliberately left Salisbury by a route that had several outlets before the A303, and surprisingly drove straight onto a pump at the first one. Limited to 30litres, by the time I'd fuelled and paid, the queues were onto the road in both directions.
Heading West, it was a complete mixed bag of closed stations, missing fuel types, queues, and/or seeming normality.
We pulled in at Honiton to shop, and Tesco had closed their station, but, being still marginal for getting home, and running ahead of time, I pulled in near Ashburton and joined a queue of 2 to fill up.
I wouldn't be at all concerned if I were at home; I'd just sit it out, but not having enough to get back is mildly concerning.
Anyway, 80litres is sufficient and the rest. To paraphrase the Beatles, "happiness is a full tank".
Incidentally, this is well over 40 nights away since Easter. We'd normally have spent much of that (and more) in Europe, but needs must, so the UK. We've had one day of "wash-out" in that time, though this afternoon is not great. The UK isn't all that bad (except Cheshire and Essex, of course ;-) )
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