Huntingdon wasn’t included in the publication “Britain’s crappest towns” but they did use it for the cover photo.

…..Crap Towns 2 – although now redeveloped

IIRC also first Sainsbury to use UV lighting in the toilets so the locals couldn’t find a vein and only place I’ve seen card shops doing ‘buy 2 get 1 free’ on valentines cards

From the High St, head south under the A14 to Port Holme and the world’s your lobster…….

my duplicate post has left the building……

I fully intend to follow any mention of ‘fish & chips’ with a sneaky Elvis impression from now on, Lance’s “I thank you” at the end was sublime

redsox – Member
In other batshit theories

man alive; best part of twenty years since I had to go though the same thing with my best mate Charlie Pongo and I’m now sat at my desk with tears rolling down my face.

I guess if he didn’t still mean so much, it wouldn’t still hurt

nothing anyone can say will make it easy, but hopefully the good times will be more easily remembered than the bad

A horrible Raleigh thing for me, although as I only have to use it about once a month I can just about live with it. Didn’t spend more as always thought it would be a terrible compromise, albeit one better than being sat in traffic

I used it recently; had the initial confirmation of receipt of application straight away, confirmation of receipt of old passport the next day, two later that day confirming processing & despatch and new passport in the post the next day – four days from realising the old one had expired to getting a new one using the ‘standard sevice’……not too shabby to my mind

OP – I’m 15 miles or so west of Cambridge and happy to get involved in anything arranged (with as much notice as possible of time, meeting point, pub / cafe stop etc)

as per replies to the thread, you’re not alone and have done a good thing in ‘coming out’

hopefully see you at some point

stumpy01 – Member
A very orange sky here in Cambs.

I can confirm this is not a lie….and also that it seems to have confused the wildlife as a pheasant tried to roost on my* wing mirror as I barrelled along at near speed limit velocity

*obviously today was the day I borrowed Mrs R’s car and have redecorated the side of it with equal measures of gamebird, glass sprinkles and shattered plastic

sorry; didn’t mean to get anyone’s p1ss boiling, but like several others I just found the language odd and the inference that anyone driving had no responsibilities beyond not breaking the speed limit.

Having popped down to the site of the ‘crest’ incident on my way to get the kids from school, I certainly wouldn’t advocate walking in the road there……but alternative is as I said, crossing the same ‘accident waiting to happen’ road twice, either side of the crest.

Also, should horses or cyclists have to stop, cross the road and use the footway in case someone comes hooning along in a car, or perhaps should people slow down a bit if they can’t see what they’re about to run into / over?

not a frothing at the keyboard ‘us and them’ call to arms at all, but in the second instance where it seems driving to the target is considered appropriate when you can’t see over a crest and to have gained access to the footway on the other side of the road the pedestrian would have had to cross the road on one side of the crest (presumably putting themselves at the mercy of anyone coming the other way who couldn’t see where they were going) and then back again on the other side of the crest once they’d presumably got to the PRoW or old folks home I assume they were heading to.

In the first one, the blame for driving into a parked car on a straight road with good visibility doesn’t seem as clear cut as I would have thought (and hoped) it should be

no need for the torches & pitchforks to be gathered, but not what I would have hoped for from those ‘in charge’

roadie strava segment outside of Cambridge (and I think near a wildfowl reserve or sumfink) is “Fear of Black Gannet”

OP – hopefully you’ve come to terms with the facts that it sounds as though there wasn’t anything more anyone could have done, but by trying you at least gave the guy a chance.

If you’re still not sure you could’ve done any more, I bet I’m not the only one to have read the thread and decided that I need some first aid training……you might not have been able to save the guy you helped, but indirectly you’ll probably end up helping a fair few others

every cloud and all that…….

I’ve got a race sportive on Sunday

entered the race sportive for a bit of fun

#FTFY

have fun

Not Without My Sister

…….and not a bad cyclist either

kimbers – Member
Who’s fearne cotton?

…..did some good work with the Scotland team but then got binned last year

fantastic family holiday for us (kids were 6 & 9) a few miles south of Albertville, with swimming lakes / man-made beaches surrounded by mountains being a new experience…….just do yourself a favour and don’t stay right at the top of a massive mountain unless you fancy every ride home finishing in a 40 min drag

enfht – Member
Since the dawn of time women have felt the cold even when it’s officially not bloody cold.

……..whilst seemingly also requiring a hermetically sealed environment with not one hint of fresh or moving air

I’ve managed to avoid it so far, but my 6 year old is apoplectic that “he has a road bike with skinny tyres in a field”

I stand corrected!

not that I have a particularly heavy right foot (especially with a car full of family & holiday stuff), but will be even more careful now…….

I’ve never even had a letter from them, which is a shame as I (accidentally) set one off on the Mulsanne Straight once and was looking forward to framing it

My understanding is that its the actual Flics who get to hand out on-the-spot-fines and the cameras get ignored?

Mornington Crescent?

I’m a planner.

No, I’m Spartacus!

might be worth negotiating a few bob from vendors to cover the cost of a ‘Certificate of Lawfulness’ which is effectively the same as the LPA saying it has / didn’t need p/p – could save going through all this when you come to sell

might also be an idea to check there are no Building Regs requirements they should have complied with too if for instance creating an extra floor of habitable accommodation; I’m guessing fire escapes, internal protection etc are going to be front & centre of peoples thoughts for a while to come

For the Big Issue, probably OK

For Hello Magazine, probably not OK

so thats what Radiohead are on about!

OK Not OK

as a yoot I’d properly smashed myself up courtesy of an over-active right wrist…….although this was connected to the throttle of a 600cc bike not a fragile banjo string (for once)

I thought I might be able to ‘do a Glastonbury’ and simply go without a poo whilst I was in hospital, but as it dawned on me I was going to be there for many weeks not just a few days I bowed to the inevitable and requested the paper tray for a bed-bound dump and had the curtains drawn around my bed. I won’t dwell on the effort to lift myself into position with feet, ankles, legs, wrists, hands and fingers all smashed, let alone that to squeeze out a monster dump whilst in a prone position……but there were tears in my eyes.

When done, and feeling quite proud of myself, I placed the tray on my legs and pressed the big red button for the nurse / HCA to take it away. Nothing happened for a minute or two until the curtain was pulled back by an entire crash team who then explained the difference the ‘call a nurse’ button and the ‘I’m dying’ alarm

that pic was taken this lunchtime; but I’m making no promises about the current mental or physical well-being of the owner

second the brilliant customer service from BOA; all they asked for was a photo to confirm the right bits and they arrived (free, gratis & for nothing) in the post a few days later

the time it takes to get anywhere near the actual border post from where I was parked I could have captured every detail in an oil painting and had notes engraved around the outside by a team of medieval monks…….but wasn’t about to start arguing with him on these points

slightly off topic, but I had a French Rozzer point a machine gun at me last week for having my phone in my hand whilst in the car (sat stationary in a massive Eurotunnel customs queue)

I normally use the ‘are their trousers tucked into their boots’ guide as to whether there is any scope for arguing the toss, but quickly decided he was ‘right’ in that instance

bingo!

remnants removed through combination of skill, patience, precision and brute force…….one of which I was able to bring to the party.

have put an alloy post in for the moment, but beyond coating any long-term replacement with carbon paste is there anything else I should be doing to avoid having to go through all this again?

undo the clamp…….now you tell me 😯

nothing above the frame (after me landing on it had flattened off whatever might have been sticking upwards)so initially tried hooking a spoke under the bottom of the post and pulling…..which is how I found it was stuck fast.

hacksaw blade to be deployed next…..

thanks, although I’ve got a whole lot more WD and evil looks I can bring to the party than precision & patience

the flip side to an ever-growing dependency on cameras is that having been deliberately side-swiped by a moron in a van at the weekend and provided plod with details (inc number plate) they seemed to lose enthusiasm for taking it any further as I didn’t have any footage.