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[john_morris_uk]

Small harbour which I never used in the past and a pleasant day till my German friend decided to drive his Panzer into a Volvo on the car park.

Old habits die hard.

 

[Alicatt]

Caithness roads are long and pretty straight. Doesn't say much for local drivers.

I remember around Canisbay when I was young and up for the summer there was a young boy who used to take his father's car out and about. He would have been no more than 9, I was told. You would see the car flying along the high road as he was out for a jaunt. I remember his car being pulled out of a ditch by a local tractor.

This was just past the T junction on the road between Balloch and Croftamie, at the Johnson's farm, was also in the late 1960's, Cow had escaped from the byre and ran down the track into the road, there was not a lot of speed involved, the cow still went over the top of the car, I think it was an A45 kind of green colour and it was covered in sharn YUCK!

At 12 I was driving my father's 1ton 4x4 Morris Commercial an ex army truck, that was at Bonhill, local policeman told me to just be careful

Some really long straight roads up there near Canisbay, and in Caithness in general. We didn't move to Wick until 1972

 

[Fr J Hackett]

 

[Wansworth]

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Is that lunch or a snack!

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Lunch Club Sandwich and Negroni

 

[dgadee]

Love your shirt. You know how to get attention.

 

[SimonX]

Drove 400 miles to see some Jock band*


But I’ll buy something bigger than a dinghy and not call her Dignity

*Actually primarily seeing stepson

 

[Bouba]

Are they the Bay City Rollers ?

 

[dgadee]

Are they the Bay City Rollers ?

No tartan! Of course not.

 

[SimonX]

Are they the Bay City Rollers ?

Nope. A band named after a song by another band who were in turn named after a steam powered dildo.

 

[Bouba]

Nope. A band named after a song by another band who were in turn named after a steam powered dildo.

You lost me when you said Scotland has more than one band…so the rest of your enigma went like smoke on the water off a ducks back

 

[Blueboatman]

Nope. A band named after a song by another band who were in turn named after a steam powered dildo.

400 mile drive? Respect

if you’d walked 500 miles it might have been a different listening experience.

You might have needed some Dexies to stay awake too, I s’pose

 

[SimonX]

400 mile drive? Respect

And in an EV as well…

 

[SimonX]

smoke on the water

That’s a song by a band named after another song

 

[Blueboatman]

And in an EV as well…

Jeff Lynn and Co next time then ?

Seriously though. Now I know that you can run climate control in an EV with the motor ‘off’ as it were, it’s the perfect gigmobile for a snooze plus friend afterwards

 

[Bouba]

Nope. A band named after a song by another band who were in turn named after a steam powered dildo.

To be honest....because the the song is called Sunshine on Leith...it didn’t occur to me that Leith was in Scotland

 

[Wansworth]

To be honest....because the the song is called Sunshine on Leith...it didn’t occur to me that Leith was in Scotland

Leith has other attractions I recall what I assumed were housewives doing a turn at lunchtime in the pubs….

 

[billskip]

To be honest....because the the song is called Sunshine on Leith...it didn’t occur to me that Leith was in Scotland

Leith hill isn't.

 

[Bouba]

Just got back from my afternoon walk…hot and sweaty

 

[Blueboatman]

Leith has other attractions I recall what I assumed were housewives doing a turn at lunchtime in the pubs….

A Wandsworth pub used to too on a Friday. It’s been more latterly an enduringly solid, popular posh drinking hole for families