Essex here I come

I am off shortly to Essex to visit Mum.  A hundred plus miles, much of it on the MI and the M25, oh bliss. Joe and the dogs are staying at bridge 102, or at least that's the plan unless they decide to slip away quietly as soon as my exhaust pipe disappears out of sight?  I will be back Sunday or Monday and then we will move up to Braunston and Joe can go off and recover our caravan.