OT: Today in South Yorkshire

[Java Jive]

Those are also the way into it.

[Woody]

Bar the midges that sounds like Yorkshire today!

[ARW]

It's not because you lied when you were 17.

It's because you live in Scotland.

[charles]

"The noblest prospect that a Scotsman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England" - Samual Johnson"

[Java Jive]

Irrelevant link - for those who couldn't be arsed to follow the link, a rather indifferent American country singer called Travis croons a song called "Why does it always rain on me" ... or something like that - having had the misfortune to hear Travis before, I didn't want to repeat the experience.

It's bright sunshine here right now, with a light wind that's not too cold, no rain, no midges, no keg beer, and decent, quiet neighbours.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

Samual is not a Scottish name ...only to be expected

[Max Demian]

Who said it was?

"Oats: 'a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.'"

[T i m]

They are certainly some of the best motorcycling roads we have toured, in and out. ;-)

Some fantastic views, pretty quiet, other road users respectful and considerate and the roads aren't generally laid nice and flat and then dug up and patched, like they are where the population density is higher.

Like, some of the rods have what looks like a hard shoulder white line but they are for people to pull over into to give other more room to overtake. *Everyone* (we came up behind on our bikes) respected them, pulling over giving us room to overtake, even when we were happy not to (as I was towing a trailer behind my bike so was (legally) speed limited).

One lesson we did learn though. The petrol stations aren't open 24/7. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

[Steve Walker]

I rather like driving in Ireland. The newer main roads often have something like a hard-shoulder and people are very good at moving over into it to let faster moving vehicles pass, but they also provide somewhere for pedestrians and cyclists to keep out of the traffic or for people to park up when visiting premises at the side of the road.

SteveW

[Bill Wright]

I think I'll move to Scotland.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

No, Yorkshire would be cold, rainy, windy, real ale, Pakistanis...

Bill

[Bill Wright]

No beer of any kind in your village!

and decent, quiet neighbours.

No love, I'm sorry, but it's just that no-one likes you.

Bill

[Andrew]

But you have to watch out escaped beasties from the Buffalo farm that we see on the BBC series about Scottish farmers from time to time.

On the plus point you have the Aberdeen bypass? that helped to bankrupt Carillion :-)

[Andrew]

Here in West Sussex, every bleeding house seems to have three cars, at least one of which will be a 4x4 suv type vehicle, plus caravans and camper vans.

Neighbour has just spent £60K on a new camper van. It's only for him and his roly-poly wife, no kids, but it's huge. Weighs just under 3.5 tonnes I think he said. It's parked on the road in a cul-de-sac along with his Toyota LandCruiser because they live in a terraced house with no off-road space.

[Andrew]

except when a local authority refuses permission for someone to destroy a sand-dune SSI and build a golf course over it .... then the SNP controlled Scottish government 'calls in' the planning decision and overrides it.

Trump then builds his golf course, but oddly not the hotels and other developments that were meant to provide employment.

[Andrew]

Cardiff would be cold, rainy, windy, Brains bitter, and the most annoying driving habits in the country (fast, then slam on the brakes at the last moment).

Latest decision from the Labour controlled gov. is to scrap the M4 relief road, which would have relieved pressure on the 2-lane section that goes through a pair of tunnels. Yesterday, one lane of one tunnel was closed because of flooding - utter chaos.

[Andrew]

They haven't laid any eggs yet, then they will make a racket.

[Andrew]

In India, when a train driver hits a 'person on the line', they are trained to move the body (or bits) onto the side of the track and then proceed.

[Andrew]

When a grab lorry was collecting one of those yellow jumbo bags from a neighbours garden, blocking the road in the process, one impatient c**t from the end of the estate drove *under* the suspended bag, along everyones open-plan front gardens and back onto the road.

[dennis]

That's why you put a big rock on the corner of your garden.