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Just travelled across the A66 from Penrith to Barnard Castle, don’t get me started on this piggin horse fair malarkie.
16th Aug 2021 2:31 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
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^Yeah, it has only been an annual event for the past 300 odd years. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
16th Aug 2021 2:54 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Location: Off again! :-)
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And luckily have managed not to be on the A66 during it over the last 300 years. Will make sure it doesn’t happen again. We hacked W-E from Barnard Castle to the A1, good choice of route as the last bit of the A66 was closed both ways just as we set off.
Good to be tucked up in a nice hotel in Harrogate without the view of traffic snaking for miles.
16th Aug 2021 3:28 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23824
Barnard Castle. Hope your eyesight proved to be okay. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
16th Aug 2021 3:35 pm
pjm-84
Member Since: 04 Oct 2016
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2589
Moo wrote:
We had the set up camp ar my daughter’s school. They wanted £8000 to leave. The school said no and brought in a ‘specialist’ removal firm from London. All ex Eastern European special forces both men and women. left within two hours of them arriving........
Lol, had this a few times on development sites.
Went to one and there was everywhere. I mean I didn't want walk around the back. I picked a very careful and precise path, avoiding the piles. The engineer stomped through it in his shoes and then said urghhh......
16th Aug 2021 3:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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LT wrote:
Barnard Castle. Hope your eyesight proved to be okay.
Indeed it did. I was getting “that” look from SWMBO whenever I mentioned eyesight.
16th Aug 2021 3:57 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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pjm-84 wrote:
Moo wrote:
We had the set up camp ar my daughter’s school. They wanted £8000 to leave. The school said no and brought in a ‘specialist’ removal firm from London. All ex Eastern European special forces both men and women. left within two hours of them arriving........
Lol, had this a few times on development sites.
Went to one and there was everywhere. I mean I didn't want walk around the back. I picked a very careful and precise path, avoiding the piles. The engineer stomped through it in his shoes and then said urghhh......
Back in the day when I worked for a living (a strange concept from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, well Nantgarw) they pitched up on land next to our factory. They claimed their vans had broken down and needed money to get them fixed. The developer thought about this for all of 5 microseconds, then turned up with a digger instead and started digging a ditch round them. Like something out of an old Star Trek episode they moved on when the ditch was threatening to fully encircle them. Strangely the engines miraculously fixed them selves.
Prob couldn’t do that now as it would infringe their ‘uman righz.
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