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The Panda Nut
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Shes just pointed out The kidney was first and I had to look after her... Thankfully our youngest is still at home and did a good job of helping me. So, maybe I was cross with my Mrs... But she definitely didnt brake her leg on purpose..... or maybe she did. WHatever we are both still here.
The Panda Nut
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Walking Barney. Boy is it both wet and cold. Feet just warming after an hour. When I got my new wellies a month back I was jumping up and down chasing them because I thought they wouldnt be needed till next winter if they didnt come quickly. Today they were in full blown wading mode. My water proof coat isn't. It leaked through every seam and the hood leaked down my neck. Are you all ready for the drought and water shortages?
My nephew is working pn a farm. He reckons the ditch they dug last month is draining 1.2million litres a day off one big field. Much of the crops sown on the autumn are failed and whats left will be weed ridden and without fertilizer as its too wet to apply fertilizer or weed killers. But dont worry about starvation as the government are on top of it all. Im tthinking of selling the Panda and buying a dinghy
My nephew is working pn a farm. He reckons the ditch they dug last month is draining 1.2million litres a day off one big field. Much of the crops sown on the autumn are failed and whats left will be weed ridden and without fertilizer as its too wet to apply fertilizer or weed killers. But dont worry about starvation as the government are on top of it all. Im tthinking of selling the Panda and buying a dinghy
We've had a very pleasant day up here, mostly sunny and tolerably warm but with a short sharp 15 minutes of hail around lunchtime. Getting much colder feeling as evening approached and I believe its to be cold again for a while now.
Mrs J's sister was supposed to arrive from Devon today. It's about an hour's drive from her home to Tiverton parkway only for her to find her train was just one of many cancelled due to flooded tracks so she went home again. She's going to try again tomorrow. What's upset her most is that it means she's going to miss her appointment scheduled for tomorrow morning at Mrs J's hairdresser - who apparently used to do hair for "Royal Personages" and is almost impossible to get an appointment with. Mrs J gets hers due to being a long time friend from way back. So glad I'm not bothered with "looking trendy" - a bowl cut sees me Ok, mind you that's if they can find enough hair that needs cutting these days.
I posted some time ago about how the recent high winds decimated our fences. Myself, neighbour to our right and neighbour beyond him all have multiple posts snapped off and fence panels shredded beyond reusing. My immediate neighbour has heart problems and the one beyond him has serious weight problems which have caused him further health problems. I'd been thinking about doing the fence between myself and next door but the other two have decided they can't do it themselves so got quotes from fencing companies. Tuesday before last I injured my back lifting 4 year old grandson and rough housing with him and now have quite painful sciatica. So I've, reluctantly, agreed to go in with them and just get included in their scheme - blimey, labour's expensive now isn't it? Anyway, one man turned up last Friday and started clearing the old posts and panels into a large van - talk about dead slow and stop! Took him all day to clear half the stuff away, when he could find time to tear himself away from his mobile phone and coffee breaks in the van (with engine running so he could use the heater). Saturday the same chap came back and dug up a couple of the old fence post concrete slugs and installed a couple of new posts. This week he's been dismantling rotted planking from next door's decking and has relaid about half of it with new planks on the old base work - I do wonder what the old 4x4 stub posts must be like after being in the ground for about 30 years. If it was me I'd be junking the lot and rebuilding it all. Mind you I don't like decking anyway so wouldn't be doing it in the first place. Today, which was a nice sunny day, there was no sign of him. Oh, and he notched some of the new fence posts so they would fit round the decking joists (thereby reducing the thickness of the post by nearly half where notched! My boundary between me and next door is simply a line of about 10 4x4 8ft posts with 6ftx6ft panels so nothing "fancy" and I'm hoping he's up to doing that properly when he gets round to it - I'll be watching what he's doing very carefully. Very glad it's not my deck though. Luckily the price is a fixed price not charged by the hour or I'd have been out there with my bull whip!
A stretch of the main road between here and Swindon has suffered from the veerge being chewed up by trucks falling off the edge of the adequately wide road. So for the last few days, they've been filling the resultant trench with hardcore, and today , moving the verge back on top of it.
Meanwhile, outside peak times, we have single lane and temp signals, operated by an untrained youth.
Theory says, that as traffic increases, you need longer waits, and longer greens, as each changeover adds a period with no-one moving, increasing the queues. These people don't seem to know this, and react, like many, with more changeovers as traffic increases. 15 minutes to travel 1 mile. Exacerbated by 30 cars through one way, 6 the other. This then leads to many jumping the red, which delays the other end, who then jump the lights, until one end gets a double green, as it hadn't celared before the changeover again. Meanwhile, lad sits in his truck, headlamps on, dazzling the passing traffic, staring into his phone, oblivious to the traffic.
(Dire Straits - Money for Nothin)
Meanwhile, outside peak times, we have single lane and temp signals, operated by an untrained youth.
Theory says, that as traffic increases, you need longer waits, and longer greens, as each changeover adds a period with no-one moving, increasing the queues. These people don't seem to know this, and react, like many, with more changeovers as traffic increases. 15 minutes to travel 1 mile. Exacerbated by 30 cars through one way, 6 the other. This then leads to many jumping the red, which delays the other end, who then jump the lights, until one end gets a double green, as it hadn't celared before the changeover again. Meanwhile, lad sits in his truck, headlamps on, dazzling the passing traffic, staring into his phone, oblivious to the traffic.
(Dire Straits - Money for Nothin)
Nice little earner:
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Stellantis CEO Earned 518 Times As Much As The Firm’s Average Worker In 2023 | Carscoops
Carlos Tavares total pay package was $39.5 million last year, up 56 percent on 2022
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The Panda Nut
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Wow. Im sure hes worth it, probably may be worth twice as much. After all hes only one down from God.Nice little earner:
Stellantis CEO Earned 518 Times As Much As The Firm’s Average Worker In 2023 | Carscoops
Carlos Tavares total pay package was $39.5 million last year, up 56 percent on 2022
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Trip to Durham...
Which in general was lovely but as per most historic places totally anti car.
Trying to get to the carpark near the theatre which is awkward, spotted a road, spotted a sign on it no cars mon-fri 9-5, local taxis and buses. Well it's Sunday whee let's go, I'm commited.
Last line of the sign... Sundays 10-4, it's 12, ********, 3 cars and a taxi behind and if I want to get back to legality I need to reverse onto a dual carriageway. Finally a sign informing me it's enforced by cameras..
Amazing... I'm sure that 35 quid fine for not reading the war and peace sign will encourage me to return to Durham if it arrives though I did not spot any cameras and locals seemed happy to use it or perhaps were also crap at speed reading while driving.
Which in general was lovely but as per most historic places totally anti car.
Trying to get to the carpark near the theatre which is awkward, spotted a road, spotted a sign on it no cars mon-fri 9-5, local taxis and buses. Well it's Sunday whee let's go, I'm commited.
Last line of the sign... Sundays 10-4, it's 12, ********, 3 cars and a taxi behind and if I want to get back to legality I need to reverse onto a dual carriageway. Finally a sign informing me it's enforced by cameras..
Amazing... I'm sure that 35 quid fine for not reading the war and peace sign will encourage me to return to Durham if it arrives though I did not spot any cameras and locals seemed happy to use it or perhaps were also crap at speed reading while driving.
Glasgow is not particularly historic, but they are very anti car. The city centre is a perfect grid of squares, and in the 60's/70's they had the brilliant idea of making them all one way, and alternating on each road. That meant if you missed a corner it was very easy to loop back round and get to where you want.
Bus gates and closed off roads for pedestrians completely killed that, now it's a nightmare to get around.
"The town centre is dying"
"We need to make it incredibly expensive, annoying and confusing as possible to visit.so people use public transport fewer cars will make it nicer"
"Absolutely that won't just make people go to out of town shopping except the 3 months a year we get tourists, everyone loves getting fined for being lost".
"Yeah mate why not...I'm sure that won't accelerate the transition from shops to betting shops at all"
"We need to make it incredibly expensive, annoying and confusing as possible to visit.so people use public transport fewer cars will make it nicer"
"Absolutely that won't just make people go to out of town shopping except the 3 months a year we get tourists, everyone loves getting fined for being lost".
"Yeah mate why not...I'm sure that won't accelerate the transition from shops to betting shops at all"
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And what we can’t get at out of town shopping centres we can order on Amazon for next day delivery. Actually this week I ordered something from Amazon and it came the same day….
This why we aren't town planners...we're clearly missing something.
I'll never forget my first same-day Amazon mainly as I was baffled when a taxi driver turned up outside and handed me a parcel at 10pm..
I'll never forget my first same-day Amazon mainly as I was baffled when a taxi driver turned up outside and handed me a parcel at 10pm..
Signs with times, or bus lanes with times, really annoy me. Make it simple, we can, or we can't. As you say, we don't have all day to read and try to understand what it says.
Oxford don't like cars and have made it progresssively more difficult to get in or around the city centre. Apart from work, I've not been there for over 20 years. But in making the centre difficult, lots of local traffic is forced onto the 'ring road', mixing with the through traffic, so it all stops. Visit if you must, use a park & ride, do the open top bus, leave, never return.
Swindon are now making it difficult, but there's nothing there anyway.
I went and revisited it on street view...
Even better face palm moment is 9pm to 4am on the sign.
What the actual hell is that?
Ok apologies to the people I brake tested as a result of this ridiculousness I shall know in future...until they change the layout again.
At least there's no fine coming..
Even better face palm moment is 9pm to 4am on the sign.
What the actual hell is that?
Ok apologies to the people I brake tested as a result of this ridiculousness I shall know in future...until they change the layout again.
At least there's no fine coming..
There are about 7million people in the uk with poor literacy skills, I used to work with a guy who claimed dyslexia when. Actually he was illiterate as he never attended school when he was younger.
For these people all the complicated signs and restrictions must be a nightmare.
Some might say you predicted my previous post...with absolute accuracy.
Except I don't have dyslexia to fall back on as an excuse I'm just incapable of speed reading a multi line sign while also attempting to navigate and drive.
There are parts of Glasgow that are "controlled zones", which means they don't want to mess up the cobble stones with yellow lines, so you're supposed to guess where the parking is.
Cities don't have an issue, almost all other towns do. The out of town retail parks are winning. Free parking, lots of choice, vs our local council that keeps trying to find ways to charge more for parking.
And then wonder why people don't come in to the town when it's only vape, card shops, and phone repair places left.
Cities don't have an issue, almost all other towns do. The out of town retail parks are winning. Free parking, lots of choice, vs our local council that keeps trying to find ways to charge more for parking.
And then wonder why people don't come in to the town when it's only vape, card shops, and phone repair places left.
The Panda Nut
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My sympathyies. Did the same in Norwich a few years back. My Mrs decided to pay it without telling me knowing what I would have been like. All the signs were at HGV height and I would have challenged it. Its irksome if you are unfamiliar with a road change or a new area. Grit your teeth and pay up I suppose. Time before that the sign was inside a hedge and I successfully challenged that one in London.
It's all one almighty mess isn't it? Bus lanes with varying active times - at least Edinburgh's are all active during the same hours, but my problem is I don't trust the cameras not to log you when they should be inactive. I think many have the same problem, or can't read the signs, as it's common to see folk staying out of the lane when they could be in it and then having to do "battle" with the self righteous who have gone into the lane legally. The 20 mph restrictions can also be a problem as it's not unusual to come up behind someone doing 20 in a 30 because they have obviously missed the sign turning it back into a 30. The same is true for people who missed the transition from 30 to 20, although there are many who just don't obey the 20 (try taking a drive through Holyrood Park which is all 20 mph. try to stick to the 20 and you end up with some idiot behind you sitting 6 inches off your bumper trying to push you along) Mind you, the roads in the park, which were always 30 before, can easily take the higher limit very safely. If you're going to do it then just make the whole shebang 20 mph?
And what about the cycle lanes? Well, I do agree that cycling is quite dangerous, especially on the main through routes. Trouble is they are not wide enough throughout their length to have continuous dedicated lanes, so you get some bits with lanes and others without. Edinburgh is a hilly city and the winter weather is horrid so why do the authorities think everyone is going to suddenly take up cycling? This would seem to be born out from my personal observations of the cycle lanes along the Ferry road and up Telford road, as well as elsewhere, where you rarely see even one bike! The money which has been wasted on these extensive schemes is deeply disturbing and would have been better spent on road maintenance. I hasten to say I'm not anti bike, indeed I have one myself, a suitably old one with rod brakes even, I just don't think the money has been well spent.
And what about the cycle lanes? Well, I do agree that cycling is quite dangerous, especially on the main through routes. Trouble is they are not wide enough throughout their length to have continuous dedicated lanes, so you get some bits with lanes and others without. Edinburgh is a hilly city and the winter weather is horrid so why do the authorities think everyone is going to suddenly take up cycling? This would seem to be born out from my personal observations of the cycle lanes along the Ferry road and up Telford road, as well as elsewhere, where you rarely see even one bike! The money which has been wasted on these extensive schemes is deeply disturbing and would have been better spent on road maintenance. I hasten to say I'm not anti bike, indeed I have one myself, a suitably old one with rod brakes even, I just don't think the money has been well spent.
It's better than that..having revisited on street view, the restrictions only apply in the middle of the night on weekends but during the day on weekdays.
So I'm fine...but everyone behind me will think me an absolute clown.. usually I like to at least allow them to form that impression having spoken to me.
