Hi Velvet and Moonie 
Moonie I hope you are feeling better.
I had to go out this afternnon to see a local client. There's a building site near by and the road from the entrance to the site on to the A38 is now covered in mud and mounds of earth and I think complaints will be made against the builders. The part of the A38 down to the northern bypass in Gloucester is also very muddy though not as bad. Something must have happened on the northern bypass from the A38 to the Over roundabout as the traffic was appalling clogged up. Not helped by lorries coming to a standstill on the roundabout preventing drivers such as myself trying to get from one side of the A38 to the other rather than going down the bypass.
Easily the worst short distance car journey I've experienced.
On the way back from the client I went a different way to avoid all that. It was raining heavily and theree was a lot of surface water on the roads but really, a pleasant journey in comparison.