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I thought we were about to have another offsiding debate. :D :twisted: Your jest made me think of a more serious link with off-siding, that I don’t remember seeing in previous discussions… …in the circumstance where a visitor to UK has lapsed into ‘subconsciously’ driving on the right, and he/she s...

Driving West along Beachy Head Rd this morning (I’m on holiday) I encountered an oncoming car heading towards me, on ‘my’ side of the road. It took a split second to convince myself it wasn’t just avoiding some hazard, and actually was driving on wrong side, which it was. I dealt with this by stoppi...

I know that junction and that overtake was little short of barking mad, whether not indicating ... To be clear there were two overtakes… one passing me on the double whites, then a second when he passed two further cars as they pulled off at the lights. Absolutely barking mad, I agree. Can’t think ...

This thread reminds me of a curious incident last week, heading south into Streatley on A329. As soon as I slowed for the 30 limit I could sense that the driver behind, in a beat up Golf IIRC, was disinclined to obey the limit. Sure enough, as soon as I passed the traffic calming chicane, still doin...

Mention of Heel and Toe (which I’ve never been able to do, not even ‘nearly’), led me to Google.

Found an Interesting clip, showing Ayrton Senna’s technique and footware…

https://youtu.be/kzLjZWrpzmQ

…looks like I missed out though, my own advanced test was nothing like that.

The problems I’ve been having aren’t about ‘feel’, it’s more about feet getting wedged, for example, when I try to lift off the brake pedal. The heel digs into the carpet, and/or the toe snags on the lower dash trim. Many shoes now seem to have a rather exaggerated pointy protruding heel moulded int...

Two votes for Merrells then. I know I said I was no longer looking, but might try some on anyway next time an opportunity pops up. It was a recent pair of Karrimors, that frustrated me the most. Definitely the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever had for walking, but quite impossible for driving. I wore...

Just wondering if anybody else has noticed a curious trend in shoes and trainers, of the kind aimed at “trail walking”. Various shoes of that category have been my goto all-purpose favourites for quite some years, since I no longer need to look smart. But I’ve had huge problems recently, finding a p...

To recap, we had a village survey to vote for/against a 20mph limit. The result was 43/33 in favour of keeping 30mph limit. The pro-20mph Parish Council have now published a response…. “Following the 20mph survey responses and input from the last parish council meeting, the majority of villagers who...

Well that’s next Christmas sorted, for the younger folks on my gift list.