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Would Tonto be a more appropriate name?

I think Gaz posted the right answer up-thread: you don't need to train the drivers, you just need to make them liable. All the desired outcomes follow on from that.

From outer space came a large grapefruit with huge UK import duty closely followed by Lord Lucan on his sailing ship with red sails and cryogenic tanks full of dodos. "At last! The pixies and gerbils and popsicle dodos cycled up hill, but when they got to the pub it was jam-packed with Margaret...

From your description it sounds as if the hedgehog has woken up, otherwise you should just be able to stick it in inside your shelter. I don't think it woke up but I can't be sure. I seemed to huff and puff a bit like it was breathing very deeply but it didn't make any attempt to move. I was reluca...

Thanks cycleruk, that http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk site had a page of example hedgehog shelters. I have stuck a roomy polystyrene box with an entrance cut into the side at gound level under the bush where the sack of leaves came from. The box is filled with leaves and long dry grass. I'll see ...

I was doing some gardening and I tipped out a bag full of leaves that I had composting from a couple of years ago, only to find that there was a hedgehog hibernating it it. I think it is too late to get the leaves and hedgehog back in the bag. For the moment I have just covered the hedgehog and leav...

Pixies hated rain but didn't melt chocolate buttons because the heat wasn't radiating for philanthropists precipitation, perambulating pixies played piccolos perfectly. Enchanting elixirs exuded egregiously excremental effluvia, oh the wind got up my pyjamas while playing chainsaw mumblety-peg with ...

Totally off topic but many years ago I had a disturbing road rage incident on a usually busy roundabout. It's junction 3 of the M40 at Loudwater which is unusual because only has slip roads for traffic to and from the London direction only. The other major route at the junction is the A40 which para...

I don't have a phot but I know of a path on the 'Hadrian's' route out of Newcastle where if you go off route you go down ~150 metres of 'cycle path' only to meet a bricked up railway arch. There is a marker where the actual route diverges from the natural line taking you to the blocked railway arch,...

I have been cycling as an adult for about 30 years. spring 1998: On a mini-roundabout a driver pulls on to the roundabout from a standing start just as I am passing the entrance. The car strikes the front of the bike, missing my legs. I end up at the top of the windscreen, then roll off the bonnet o...

gaz wrote:

I couldn't work out why that wheel barrow had such a flimsey front wheel

That 'stealth' bike doesn't look comfortatble. What was he trying to do, morphe a diamond frame bike in to a recumbent? All the better to slip it past the UCI? It looks more bent double than 'bent.

531colin, thanks for the explanation . I will ask her about this next time I see her.

My mother, who has had a bus pass for a good few years, /has/had/ cataracts and dry macular degeneration. She recently had one eye done for cataracts. The doctor isn't even thinking about doing the other eye yet. Her sight has been improved and the optician said she would now be alright for driving ...

From the comments on the road.cc article I think if I lived in London I would be out with some spray cans making suitable amendments, (suggestion to anyone who does?) Cool Yes, creative defacing of the signs is the way forward. I like this idea and would love to see a photo of the results, particula...