My mother once told me not to listen to music whilst driving, as it's too much of distraction. I took no notice of her (sorry mum!), and always have the radio on if I'm driving somewhere on my own.

Things that interrupt my enjoyment of AM radio during my drive to and from work:

• thunderstorms
• the weather generally
• power lines
• trains
• Church Stretton

And also occasionally the car itself, which I find slightly odd...

The crackle and fuzz was so bad on the way home today that I could barely hear the music, then eventually realised it was some crap by my least favourite whinging ex-soldier, so decided to take action and listen to a different station.

I've tried listening to other stations, but I always come back to Virgin, or Five Live if there's some football on. If Alex has been anywhere near the car it'll be set to Radio 4, which is usually too boring. I'll occasionally flick over to Radio 2, but usually not for more than five minutes.
However, I'm not quite so desperate to have to go anywhere near Radio 1 yet

I had a brainwave earlier - this is the Midlands, so why not see if I can pick up Kerrang!? And there it was, almost crystal clear on 105.2, and now stored on preset 6.
I'll probably be bored of that and back to Virgin by next Wednesday. We'll see.

tags: car music