SORRY. The election has rather overtaken me, but I've been triggered back into action as yesterday someone stopped me and told me how he nearly crashed because of me recently. There he was, quietly driving along, when his wife in the passenger seat suddenly yelled out "Look, it's one of those things" at such a volume that he swerved in surprise.

"It's one of those things that chap in the newspaper keeps writing about."

Yes, she'd spotted a milestone on the A67 between Darlington and Barnard Castle.

Last weekend, I was again travelling that road and I parked up in a field gateway, bemused family left sitting in the back of the car, and went for a root in the hedgerow. Several people have mentioned to me that the old milestone at Westwick is deep in the hedge, and so it is (pictured here).

I also don't think I've ever written about the Winston miley that sits in a garden near the old school - now the Bridgewater Arms - in that village. It was discarded when Winston was by-passed, but some sensible soul placed it in their garden.

The A67 in full:

Top of a sandstone milestone at Baydale Beck, Darlington (presumably Darlington 2 Barnard Castle 14);

Metal milepost in Merrybent (D3 BC13);

Metal milepost lost in brambles at High Coniscliffe east (D4 BC12);

Remains of metal milepost at Carlbury (D5 BC11);

Newly painted milestone east of Gainford; (D7 BC9);

Newly discovered milestone west of Gainford (D8 BC8);

Milestone in garden at Winston (D9 BC7);

Well cared for milestone in tarmac at Arlaw Banks (D13 BC2);

Milestone in hedgerow near Westwick (D14 BC2);

Milestone in pavement at east Barney (D15 BC1).

This road was turnpiked in 1751, and this is actually a pretty decent run of stones and posts: ten remain out of a potential 14 - unless anyone else can rediscover one in a hedgerow?