Safari
Posted: Tue 16 August, 2005 Filed under: Travel Leave a comment »Looks like – well, in some circumstances at least – the Comedy Smart Car and it’s ilk are at risk from more interesting things than just ‘everything else on the road’.
Quite, Quite Barmy
Posted: Mon 15 August, 2005 Filed under: News, Travel Leave a comment »I love this story, which perfectly illustrates that we really can be quite cracked on occasion.
A family were travelling on the M11 in Kent when a gust of wind blew the 10 year old child’s cuddly toy out of the window. The family turned round at the next junction (which shows a degree of common sense, rather than the “oh, we’ve got to stop straight away” method that many seem to adopt) and discovered that the toy was in the central reservation. Again, rather than being brain-dead and trying to run across three lanes of high-speed traffic (which I know has been done before) they carried on, but called the highway police. ( I don’t know, but I suspect they didn’t even use 999 to do so – all due respect for them being sane)
The motorway police, being utter barmpots, managed to rescue the toy by setting up a “rolling road-block” to protect an officer walking onto the central reservation to pick up the toy. In effect they closed an entire section of a motorway to pick up a kids toy, and then post it to the family.
Mad as Cheese, but definitely a great story!
Lost
Posted: Mon 15 August, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Travel 1 Comment »I wonder if Channel 4 are currently shiteing it a bit, what with having spent millions on “Lost“, only for there to be a plane crash in Greece that killed all passengers. Will Ep. 3 of Lost be shown on Wednesday? Who knows…
Gobsmacked
Posted: Mon 15 August, 2005 Filed under: Travel 1 Comment »In my travels to and from Manchester this week, courtesy of the oft-maligned (and sworn at) Virgin Trains, I was truly amazed to realise that both my journeys were actually on time. It’s unnatural. Maybe they knew it was likely to be my last long-distance trip with them, considering the events of last Thursday.
So yes, all went well – with the minor exception of the pissed Irish twat who thought “Quiet Zone” meant “get pissed and keep on trying to sing your way through the four hour journey”. But well, that’s what headphones were designed for. (I should point out that in the “Quiet Zone” (which never is) you’re also not supposed to use personal stereos or mobile phones, but my headphones are linked in to the laptop, so I kind of squeeze through that one)
Weekend
Posted: Fri 12 August, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky, Travel 1 Comment »This weekend I’m away up to Manchester to see friends. It’s the first time I’ve been there this year, and it’s going to be quite fun seeing the old place again.
There’ll still be a couple of posts to go up over the weekend though – don’t you just love the delayed publishing stuff in WordPress?
Abandonment pt. 2
Posted: Tue 9 August, 2005 Filed under: News, Thoughts, Travel Leave a comment »Following on from last week’s post about the 15year old girl who was left alone in the UK when her mother decided to move to Turkey after a holiday romance, I see that the mother has now put in an appearance.
No, not in the UK to answer any form of enquiry about why she did it, but instead on Turkish TV, telling how she’s so in love.
“We really liked each other and saw each other every day and when I went back to England I promised I would come back because I want to be with Ali.
“I did everything I could and got back within three weeks. I came back to stay with Ali because I love him.”
No expression of guilt about her daughter, nothing – just self-centred selfish behaviour. Grrr.