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General Category => Off Topic Lounge => Topic started by: richard on February 20, 2014, 12:23:52 PM
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Currently sitting in a scenic laybye near lake windermere and 5miles from our recently discussed Lakeland Motor Museum . Unfortunately I am awaiting recovery as I have pranged the car ! Wet n slippery a misjudged bend ,on a very familiar B road, and thumped the front end into a bank on the side of the road . Coolant level zero oh for an air cooled car . The insurance company first asked me " had the car been modified in any way " - I said well it has now ! :)
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I have pranged the car ! Wet n slippery a misjudged bend
Do you really mean "I was driving too fast for the prevailing weather and road condition"?
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Oops! Easily done on those roads up there, had a couple of very near misses near Coniston Water.
All those many times I went up there for work over 2-3 years I passed the Motor museum and the Steam Railways countless times. We spent (and even wasted) SO much time on "conferences" so never managed to visit anywhere!
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Yes Rob that's exactly it , thank you for your kind words. :) no consolation but it's my first in 35 years of driving literally all day , perhaps I have just been lucky .Marcus I could do with a nice beer did you mention Conistons ? Unfortunately far from a pub , or anything else for that matter !
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Oh dear! Sorry to hear that Richard. Console yourself with a pint of Bluebird!
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If only Bob , still awaiting recovery.
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Draught Bluebird is good stuff!
Those roads all around there are treacherous however carefully you drive. narrow, walled or banked in, always wet, muddy, gravelly, snowy, oily, greasy, whatever! If things go wrong there's nowt you can do, better to hit a bank or wall than a moving vehicle.
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You forgot to mention the sheep in the road Marcus!
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That goes without saying. Cows too, we got stuck behind one for 25 minutes when I was in a hurry to catch the last train back to London.
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well home again. at least i hit the bank not lake windermere on the other side of the road . to cut a very long story short the courtesy car had a puncture on arrival - luckily i noticed they didn't . and the locking wheel nut didn't have the other part !! a long day .
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You want to try riding a motorbike on those roads. If you don't skid on the sheep droppings, every so often one of the rocks with a splash of colour on it turns out to be a camouflaged sheep that is scared of the sound of a bike and will run across the road.
Drivers who live there drive exactly as Richard described - they accept that a new front wing every ten years is a fair exchange for not having to slow down for every bend. And the really, really clever bit of road engineering you see there is how some stone walls have been removed on the apex of bends and replaced with metal railings that you can see through/past.
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Good one, Windy's far too cold for a swim at this (or any) time of year!
My Grandad design a boat (Peter Duck) for Arthur ("Swallows and Amazons") Ransome, I think it's still up in the Lake District somewhere.
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a very good female friend did The Great North Swim a couple of years ago very near there , by memory was it 5 miles or so she swam . My goodness they were blue with cold and you weren't allowed without full dry/wet suits . Thousands of them swam it though ! good on Linda we supported her from a lakeside hostelry ;)
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Cows, we got stuck behind one for 25 minutes when I was in a hurry to catch the last train back to London.
That's not the way to talk about women drivers!
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11.06pm you posted that ! What was in your Ovaltine Rob - or was it the tonic wine ?
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Don't drink alcohol beverage, gave it up when I was 15 after a drunken ride on my bicycle. ;D
Now Ovaltine, that's different. Usually have it about 2 am. A large mug full, five spoons of chocolate flavoured, mixed with two spoons of coffee mate and two spoons of sugar in hot water. Just the stuff to help have a good kip. 8)
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Cows, we got stuck behind one for 25 minutes when I was in a hurry to catch the last train back to London.
That's not the way to talk about women drivers!
I nearly made a joke on similar lines!
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Been a few days now. Hope your back is not coming out in sympathy.
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thanks al it's fine it always niggles but rarely like it used to all those years ago . now wheres my claim form for whiplash ;) - actually a pet subject of mine , apparently insurance companies expect it with every bump and £2000 odd is uncontested ! i will NOT be putting in such a claim - i think the whole whiplash thing is usually nonsense , who had ever heard of it 25 years ago ?
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The only whiplash I heard of in 1989 and earlier is something scantily clad ladies of the night used on their clients? :-[
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thanks al it's fine it always niggles but rarely like it used to all those years ago . now wheres my claim form for whiplash ;) - actually a pet subject of mine , apparently insurance companies expect it with every bump and £2000 odd is uncontested ! i will NOT be putting in such a claim - i think the whole whiplash thing is usually nonsense , who had ever heard of it 25 years ago ?
It used to be a standing joke in American comedy, The Fortune Cookie with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau being a notable example. Difficult to understand why its treated with such reverence.