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Thehooperman
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A mobile fully functioning post office in Anstruther where this year's cottage for Knockhill Superbikes is.
What a great idea?
What a great idea?
Thehooperman
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And Fife has got a decent bus service that runs in the evening and on Sundays.
Stafford needs to take some lessons from places like this!!!
Stafford needs to take some lessons from places like this!!!
Thehooperman
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The Vengabus is coming
Mudgie
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They're lucky.
Three steps is many less than in W H Smiths.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
There used to be a lift in Smith's. Is it not there any longer?
Mudgie
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Probably.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Yeah, it's a weird one though as it has no walls just the floor goes up and down!
Trumpet
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I used to go to a pub like that.
Thehooperman
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The lift was working the last time I went to the main post office about 2 months ago.
Thehooperman
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Well yesterday, loads of puffins and seals whilst on a boat trip around the Isle of May.
Thehooperman
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Nazi gnomes in Asda
Gramaisc
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... this sign - initially looking very out-of-place, about as far from the coast or any airport as you can get here.
A few seconds of thought, though, suggested that it might be because reaching that point may well mean that you've driven the preceding eight miles of very single-track road without any need to consider which side to drive on, except in the very unlikely event of meeting somebody coming the other way. I suppose it would be easy for those of an external persuasion to have defaulted to 'standard mode', without anything to prompt them to reinstall the alternative protocol. It is the third of the three trans-mountain roads here, the last one to be tarmacked, only about 25 years ago, and still not used much. I did do it twice before it was 'civilised', but it was not easy and not really viable to attempt with a normal car.
We also saw, but I failed to record, a Jay. he was spooked by the dog we had with us and flew off, through a shaft of sunlight against the background of a dark forest, looking for all the world like some exotic escaped parrot.
After a delayed start, due to a thunderstorm, we only made a small foray into the local hills, but, due to the 'new road' as it is still known, this meant that we could access the highest point, 527m/1,729ft, as the new road passes a few hundred metres away as it crosses the ridge.
We had company today, as we weren't going to encounter any sheep that far up.
Benjy wasn't hugely impressed by the very small cairn.
On the way, I discovered this -
It was at the top of a steep slope down to a stream. Beyond that, there was nothing that isn't clear from the picture - no wording or other identification anywhere on it. Clearly very recent, though.
Talk of the New Road reminds me that there is another, much nearer, that is well-used now, not least by me on my Lidl runs, although it isn't referred to much by younger people as 'the new road'. Where it enters the next town, after about ten miles, there is a street name sign declaring it to be New Road. And, with the proclivity here to stagger crossroads into two T-junctions, the last bit of the now blocked-off New Road has a parallel even newer road that actually reaches the main road. I think the sign on the dead-end section should say Old New Road. All of this is amusing because, as you can see from a small deviation that occurred when the railway arrived, this 'new road' was already there in the mid-1840s.
A few seconds of thought, though, suggested that it might be because reaching that point may well mean that you've driven the preceding eight miles of very single-track road without any need to consider which side to drive on, except in the very unlikely event of meeting somebody coming the other way. I suppose it would be easy for those of an external persuasion to have defaulted to 'standard mode', without anything to prompt them to reinstall the alternative protocol. It is the third of the three trans-mountain roads here, the last one to be tarmacked, only about 25 years ago, and still not used much. I did do it twice before it was 'civilised', but it was not easy and not really viable to attempt with a normal car.
We also saw, but I failed to record, a Jay. he was spooked by the dog we had with us and flew off, through a shaft of sunlight against the background of a dark forest, looking for all the world like some exotic escaped parrot.
After a delayed start, due to a thunderstorm, we only made a small foray into the local hills, but, due to the 'new road' as it is still known, this meant that we could access the highest point, 527m/1,729ft, as the new road passes a few hundred metres away as it crosses the ridge.
We had company today, as we weren't going to encounter any sheep that far up.
Benjy wasn't hugely impressed by the very small cairn.
On the way, I discovered this -
It was at the top of a steep slope down to a stream. Beyond that, there was nothing that isn't clear from the picture - no wording or other identification anywhere on it. Clearly very recent, though.
Talk of the New Road reminds me that there is another, much nearer, that is well-used now, not least by me on my Lidl runs, although it isn't referred to much by younger people as 'the new road'. Where it enters the next town, after about ten miles, there is a street name sign declaring it to be New Road. And, with the proclivity here to stagger crossroads into two T-junctions, the last bit of the now blocked-off New Road has a parallel even newer road that actually reaches the main road. I think the sign on the dead-end section should say Old New Road. All of this is amusing because, as you can see from a small deviation that occurred when the railway arrived, this 'new road' was already there in the mid-1840s.
staffordjas
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A mullet on a youngster at the bar... fashions going around and repeating themselves?
Mudgie
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Baby storks
