TOT about driving conditions the week

[Dave]

R. Thanks for that, I hadn't considered it.

Dave

[The Natural Philosopher]

cf ground frost vs air frost.

[Steve Firth]

No, oddly enough it was a bloke. He looked like Jack Straw.

Sadly true, but when in the passenger seat my wife claims that if I get closer than 800 metres to the car in front I'm driving too close.

Apparently they ran out of salt. They are making all sorts of excuses, but "we're a useless bunch of jobsworths", the real reason, hasn't featured yet.

[Dave]

But supermarket car parks don't have pedestrian crossings. They might have white stripes painted across a part of them, but that does not constitute a valid pedestrian crossing. It only mimics a zebra crossing. No Belisha beacons involved.

Dave

[Frank Erskine]

My local Sainsbury has Belisha beacons in their car park.

[Andy Champ]

Story I heard was that treat it like a 4x4 - slow, lumbering, doesn't care about mud - and it will do a good job. Try to power slide it on dry tarmac and you are in deep trouble.

Too many drivers didn't understand that.

Andy

[Dave]

Sorry, I forgot about the Marines. Daughter lives in a maisonette that must have housed the Marines and I often wonder what stories the walls could tell. You could imagine the c*ck of the unit humping every one's wife and smirking at their husbands.

Dave

[Dave]

In the end, I didn't need it, thank gawd :-)

Dave

[Dave]

I turned the radio to mute, as my wife and I don't share the same delight in stations. She likes Radio 2, I like Classic FM.

While I was going to the loo and came back, I was informed that there was a snow problem in Cheshire. Come to drive through Cheshire and there were just the chevrons on the road, they never slow me down.

Dave

[Dave]

Come later in the month, I will get myself armed up with all the info about trains.

I would expect a blood bath, mine :-(

I can't blame you. If you had commented and she had read it, I would be in a blood bath.

Dave

[Dave]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the A32. I tried to find it with Autoroute but failed. I could be too tired after the long drive yesterday.

It doesn't happen in just backwaters. I had to go in town to do some shopping and the A6 had parked cars on the left and the right. Only one car could get through at a time in either direction.

Stupid bastards

Even more of a stupid bastard.

Reminds me of the first time I have been stuck in snow. Yesterday, I got stuck in about 6 inches of snow. It was my own fault, as I didn't make the the run forward and back up to run into it when I set off. Took about 2 mins to get out with the help of our daughter who was asking if I was using the gas pedal on a diesel. :-(

Car told me that the lowest temp was around Birmingham of minus 7.

Dave

[Steve Walker]

As does the Tescos that we occasionally frequent.

SteveW

[Steve Firth]

It got to -14.6 here the same night I made that post. It's now an almost tropical -4.2.

[Dave]

Next time I can get into our local one, I'll take a look. Just been out for some decent DVD -R and couldn't get in to our local one.

Dave

[Dave]

Yes, you make a good point there. With only a few teachers, they could keep the children occupied. Even I could entertain 50 children on my own. Not that I would want to though :-(

Dave

[Dave]

RAOTFLMAO Do take care as to what you post, I usually have a drink in my hand. My key board is fast catching me up in the number of showers it has had in the last 6 months.

Dave