LOCAL man Gerald Creswick beat the blockades by travelling to work on his horse Bess, an eight-year-old Clydesdale cross thoroughbred.
It is such a wonderful ride that he says he will do it every day from now on. Mr Creswick who lives on St. Briavels Common, keeps his horse during the day at a farm near Llandogo where he works.
He is usually reliant on friends and family for transport but because of the fuel crisis the fuel in the family car was needed for visiting an elderly aunt in hospital so Gerald rode Bess home. Bess stayed overnight in a field near the house and he then rode her to work the following day.
"I am going to keep on doing this now, it is a lovely quiet ride along the bridlepath beside the River Wye, turning uphill on another bridlepath to St Briavels. I only have to go on short stretches of road at either end of the journey, Bess and I enjoy it."