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Again, many thanks Alasdair for keeping the show on the road

If you can't get a wardrobe in it, I don't want one.

When the weather is really bad, many drivers stare straight ahead ... as Bill Bryson said "like piloting a light aircraft through a thunderstorm" ... and effectively have tunnel vision. They don't see anybody else. I was trundling back home in bad weather the other day and came up on a hug...

Pish. I bite my thumb at your "cockpit drill". In my earlier days when I was working all over the place, many is the time I've ended up in airport car hire lots trying to work out how the hell the tin can in front of me works (you may laugh but my first experience of an automatic tank was ...

Pish. Me old Saab two-stroke used to do that ....

There are two sorts of braking:
a) Braking when it's just you driving and have that round thing to hang on to.
b) Braking when Mrs T (or other passenger) is in the front seat and when even quite modest braking will cause the road atlas and her handbag to slide off her lap.

We have a stinky junction in our village: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Steventon,+Abingdon,+Oxfordshire+OX13+6SQ/@51.6246336,-1.3207358,179m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x4876b9da8c1ddb07:0xea400e3bb078d445?hl=en In the morning there is a lot of North / South traffic, plus traffic queues up to ge...

jcochrane wrote:Consider what did you learn or if there is anything you would have done differently? Errors are learning opportunities without them we can not learn. Once you have identified what can be learnt from the experience, remember what you have learnt and not the error itself.

Exactly, John

It's great having a good hoon along windy country roads in the sunshine. But we all have off days. I had one today, and I was total shite. I needed to go and collect Mrs T from Didcot Station, a mere 4 miles this evening. A bit of rain and the sort of darkness that sucks the light up, and heavy traf...

North-East could be fun. There are some excellent driving roads up there ... let's go to Alston ... either way.