Today I saw...

staffordjas

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2 ladies racing around the outside of the council buildings on market square looking for the registry office, after council workers in a doorway around the corner sent them on a wild goose chase.

I advised to go to where tourist info office is/was facing the old Sheridan ( is that still there nowadays ??.) and see if they knew.
 

Theresa Green

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2 ladies racing around the outside of the council buildings on market square looking for the registry office, after council workers in a doorway around the corner sent them on a wild goose chase.

I advised to go to where tourist info office is/was facing the old Sheridan ( is that still there nowadays ??.) and see if they knew.
Yes

It's moved now from shit red brick ruin view to fag butt corner around the bend from cheggars plays tarmac, but only temporarily until it gets It's new home next to the dead Shetland Pony in a tin for your street shitting hound at vests at home warehouse in Stone Approaches just off the A34

No gaslighting
No wild gooses
No surrender
No limit
November

It's pronounced Register

Like Bill Cash Register
 

littleme

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I've seen Chocolate Orange ones too. The things are bad enough normal flavour.
Our place has apple & rasin, triple chocolate, chocolate orange, or the best ones Barbers vintage cheddar with caramelised onion. Nom Nom mom.
 

staffordjas

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Some skilful braking and skidding across 2 lanes , by the HGV in front of me on the M6, to avoid a van that broke down in a live lane as well as traffic overtaking in the lane beside him.
I thought he'd just lost control of it at first when I saw it veering with smoke coming off the tyres.
Luckily I'd left a big enough gap behind the lorry to be able to get over myself when I spotted the van in front of him.

Who-ever decided getting rid of hard shoulders needs bloody shooting!
 

Noah

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Who-ever decided getting rid of hard shoulders needs bloody shooting!

It was a cost cutting exercise. They were converting to managed motorways where the hard shoulder remains but traffic can be switched to when there is congestion. Safe because there is a much greater level of supervision and traffic tends to travel at a more cautious, safer speed when on the hard shoulder. Then the Government substantially increased the mileage to be converted each year and reduced the funding so cheaper and more dangerous smart motorways were dreamed up to meet the deadlines and cut costs.
 

Mudgie

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It was a cost cutting exercise. They were converting to managed motorways where the hard shoulder remains but traffic can be switched to when there is congestion. Safe because there is a much greater level of supervision and traffic tends to travel at a more cautious, safer speed when on the hard shoulder. Then the Government substantially increased the mileage to be converted each year and reduced the funding so cheaper and more dangerous smart motorways were dreamed up to meet the deadlines and cut costs.
And the "level of supervision" can be abysmal, a broken down vehicle being recognised being pot luck rather than automatic.
 

BobClay

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Walking around Tamar Lake this morning was very busy. Lots of holiday makers down this way. Spotted this old Ford Prefect in the car park. I remember my uncle Alan Clay (also of Sheridan St) had one of these and took us to Rhyl in it once. :eek:

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The dashboard resembles the cockpit of a Concorde ....... (sort of. :P )

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Mudgie

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Walking around Tamar Lake this morning was very busy. Lots of holiday makers down this way. Spotted this old Ford Prefect in the car park. I remember my uncle Alan Clay (also of Sheridan St) had one of these and took us to Rhyl in it once. :eek:

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The dashboard resembles the cockpit of a Concorde ....... (sort of. :P )

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And those look like proper semaphore indicators, not the newfangled flashing ones.
 

Withnail

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This is a perfect visual example of backinmydayism.

A car built for the malnourished of body and mind - and already a lamentarian to pretend it was all better when it was then, and how that its worse now
 

BobClay

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What I've noticed is that the older you get, the higher your car needs to be. (Much as I'd love an E Type Jag, it would take me half an hour to get in and out of the bloody thing.)
Also, if a car doesn't have Infinite Improbability Drive fitted, well, it's not really a car is it ? :P Only trouble is you never know where you are going to end up ... but ... that's the adventure. (So far, Cleethorpes, Cheltenham and Macclesfield. Adventures aren't what they used to be :embarrass:)

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