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Car crashes through garden
Car crashes through garden and leaves driver trapped
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/car-crashes-through-garden-leaves-7892418
bad enough for an ambulance
bad enough for an ambulance to attend. Compare and contrast:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/heart-attack-victims-bristol-left-7886814
Man defends parking 4×4 on
Man defends parking 4×4 on church pathway to block ‘illegal’ use by cars outside his home
“It’s a footpath – you can’t drive on it” (Except me, of course)
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-defends-parking-4×4-church-7875508
Is it stuipidity or arrogance
Is it stuipidity or arrogance on the part of these dodgy drivers that brings them to the police’s attention?
We get admitted to the CU and
We get admitted to the CU and the SM, I’d have thought. I wonder if we will see full EU membership again in my lifetime.
You do wonder about some kind of UK partition – like if you’re one of the three groups on the anti-cycling Venn, this bit is for you (enjoy!), everyone else, “welcome to (independent) Scotland.” And “you can exchange your GBPs for EUR at the border – we’ll make the calculations super simple.”
Bath’s infrastructure is
Bath’s infrastructure is ‘creaking’ due to Christmas Market demands
“infra” = cars
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/baths-infrastructure-creaking-due-christmas-7876653
Curious isn’t it how in the
Curious isn’t it how in the EU the left see an industrialists’ power bloc and the right see some kind of regulating behemoth. Both run scared of it.
At the end of the day, when all’s said and done, I just want a political party that wants to make life better for people in the UK.
It’s very timely and right on
It’s very timely and right on the money – a long and worthwhile read. A flavour here:
Brexit, like the Memory Lane UK posts, partly speaks to an existential sadness about the passage of time and the desire for revenge on what we imagine it has done to us. You can only take back control if you have become convinced you once had it, and have had it torn from your grasp. “The nativist promise,” Simon Kuper observed recently, “is that the betrayal can be reversed, that one day it will be bright, sunny 1955 again.” The twist, of course, is that for Binmenists, 1955 wasn’t even that bright and sunny: things were worse, and therefore better.
But even that strange twist – worse, therefore better – has an underlying logic to it. The political economist William Davies has described the way people who feel disenfranchised often find solace in nationalism. He writes: “The nationalist leader holds out the promise of restoring things to how they were, including all the forms of brutality – such as capital punishment, back-breaking physical work, patriarchal domination – that social progress had consigned to history. For reasons Freud would have understood, this isn’t as simple as wanting life to be more pleasurable, but a deep desire to restore a political order that made sense, in spite of its harshness. It is a rejection of progress in all its forms.”
Finally, the attached old familiar – “x (= ghastly thing in the past) never did me any harm”
Drama at Swindon garden
Drama at Swindon garden centre after driver ploughs car into building
“It’s made a mess, Yucca plants everywhere as well as glass”, one stunned shopper said.
Driver arrested after embedding car in Chippenham homeowner’s new fence
Wiltshire 999s understands that the fence was new – having only been installed earlier this year.
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/drama-swindon-garden-centre-car-building/
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver-arrested-car-chippenham-fence/
Experts reveal the worst day
Experts reveal the worst day to drive and how to avoid it
get a bike
They found that on average, motorists in urban areas experienced congestion … the equivalent of 5,160 minutes (or 86 hours) in rush hour traffic every year.get a bike
Worst day to drive? Friday, apparently.Also:
Saturday – I wouldn’t
Sunday – not really
Monday – outstretched hand tilting from side to side ??
Tuesday – nah
Wednesday – nope
Thursday – near enough Friday
get a bike
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23151537.experts-reveal-worst-day-drive-avoid/
Car smashes wall on Bitterne
Car smashes wall on Bitterne Road East, Southampton
Similar sort of thing for me,
Similar sort of thing for me, a dip in a road I usually rode in the other direction, suddenly the bike gathered speed and got away from me; I couldn’t make the curve at the bottom and I crashed into a wire fence, writing off my front wheel.
Apart from anything else, it
Apart from anything else, it’s pretty obvious that it’s from a cyclist. Anyway, you’ll want to get it home and see if you can fix it in slow time – right?
The red taxi at the start of
The red taxi at the start of no 137, driver clambers out on to the roof, “Mr Grimsdale, Mr Grimsdale, it happened again!”
There’s a depth gauge reading 3 feet at the start – waist deep. Why not just go around? Red taxi is still bobbing about at the end tossed by the bow wave of one of those off roaders pushing through.
I though it all came from
I thought it all came from cyclists.