Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Mussels]

Road closed notices. There's a trend round here to post 'road closed' several junctions from the closure with no info and as a result people have learned to ignore them as there's a good chance the closure is past where you want to go.
Yesterday there was a fuel spill on the A26* and as expected they put up vague road closed notices miles from the problem, no diversions or advice just vague closed signs. As a result everyone is ignoring it until you get to the point where the only road round it is a mile long single track country road, nobody in sight to manage traffic and the chaos is incredible as lorries try and use this road.
If only somebody in the Highways Agency would update the closure database so satnavs avoid it then it would be much better as it's not due to reopen until Monday.

* At Eridge for anyone thinking of heading that way this weekend.

[Noggin]

Road closed notices. There's a trend round here to post 'road closed' several junctions from the closure with no info and as a result people have learned to ignore them as there's a good chance the closure is past where you want to go.
Yesterday there was a fuel spill on the A26* and as expected they put up vague road closed notices miles from the problem, no diversions or advice just vague closed signs. As a result everyone is ignoring it until you get to the point where the only road round it is a mile long single track country road, nobody in sight to manage traffic and the chaos is incredible as lorries try and use this road.
If only somebody in the Highways Agency would update the closure database so satnavs avoid it then it would be much better as it's not due to reopen until Monday.

* At Eridge for anyone thinking of heading that way this weekend.

I hate motorway signs that are like that. The day I crashed, I was on the M4 heading to the M32 - on the M4 is said "queue on slip road" just before the slip road to join the M32. No queue. Was too late when I saw the 'actual' queue that was by then a long way back from the first slip road off the M32!!

[ChrisW]

Road closed notices. There's a trend round here to post 'road closed' several junctions from the closure with no info and as a result people have learned to ignore them as there's a good chance the closure is past where you want to go.
Yesterday there was a fuel spill on the A26* and as expected they put up vague road closed notices miles from the problem, no diversions or advice just vague closed signs. As a result everyone is ignoring it until you get to the point where the only road round it is a mile long single track country road, nobody in sight to manage traffic and the chaos is incredible as lorries try and use this road.
If only somebody in the Highways Agency would update the closure database so satnavs avoid it then it would be much better as it's not due to reopen until Monday.

* At Eridge for anyone thinking of heading that way this weekend.

I had one the other day when I was heading to a village about 6 miles out of town. First junction onto the road heading that way had road closed ahead & diversion signs. Decided to wing it as the diversion would have been waaay out of the way, plus I know the road well enough that there are plenty of turn offs I'd have been able to take along the way. Passed maybe 4 other sets of signs before I got the village I was going to.

Looked it up when I got back and the road closure was another 8 miles past the village, on the far side of the next town...

On the plus side the road wasn't busy

[Yorick]

Road closed notices. There's a trend round here to post 'road closed' several junctions from the closure with no info and as a result people have learned to ignore them as there's a good chance the closure is past where you want to go.
Yesterday there was a fuel spill on the A26* and as expected they put up vague road closed notices miles from the problem, no diversions or advice just vague closed signs. As a result everyone is ignoring it until you get to the point where the only road round it is a mile long single track country road, nobody in sight to manage traffic and the chaos is incredible as lorries try and use this road.
If only somebody in the Highways Agency would update the closure database so satnavs avoid it then it would be much better as it's not due to reopen until Monday.

* At Eridge for anyone thinking of heading that way this weekend.

I hate motorway signs that are like that. The day I crashed,

That doesn't narrow it down much

[Noggin]

Road closed notices. There's a trend round here to post 'road closed' several junctions from the closure with no info and as a result people have learned to ignore them as there's a good chance the closure is past where you want to go.
Yesterday there was a fuel spill on the A26* and as expected they put up vague road closed notices miles from the problem, no diversions or advice just vague closed signs. As a result everyone is ignoring it until you get to the point where the only road round it is a mile long single track country road, nobody in sight to manage traffic and the chaos is incredible as lorries try and use this road.
If only somebody in the Highways Agency would update the closure database so satnavs avoid it then it would be much better as it's not due to reopen until Monday.

* At Eridge for anyone thinking of heading that way this weekend.

I hate motorway signs that are like that. The day I crashed,

That doesn't narrow it down much

Three road crashes - two minor in the first 18 months and one biggie 15 years later!!

[Skub]

More sad than piss boiled,but hey.

The Robin Pt.4

The little hand fed blurt seems to have disappeared,while we now have a regular visit from a Sparrowhawk.

These two events may not be unconnected.

[ChrisW]

More sad than piss boiled,but hey.

The Robin Pt.4

The little hand fed blurt seems to have disappeared,while we now have a regular visit from a Sparrowhawk.

These two events may not be unconnected.

I've become oddly attached to a young blackbird that had been brought over for food by its dad this year. Has been coming alone recently but I suspect he's not quite ready to make it on his own.

[Wossname]

More sad than piss boiled,but hey.

The Robin Pt.4

The little hand fed blurt seems to have disappeared,while we now have a regular visit from a Sparrowhawk.

These two events may not be unconnected.

They won’t know what a blurt is unless you tell them.

P.S. it’s a bit like a wee skitther but not quite so skitthery.

[Yorick]

More sad than piss boiled,but hey.

The Robin Pt.4

The little hand fed blurt seems to have disappeared,while we now have a regular visit from a Sparrowhawk.

These two events may not be unconnected.

They won’t know what a blurt is unless you tell them.

P.S. it’s a bit like a wee skitther but not quite so skitthery.

Blurt means something else where I'm from

[ChrisW]

The nob who left his Africa Twin taking up 75% of the four bike parking bay I used this afternoon...

[Silly Car]

Local BMW dealership…

Every time my car goes there for a recall it is a clusterfuck from their point of view.

1. Borked software upgrade that needed overnight full reset
2. As above on another occasion
3. Part needed to be replaced, booked in, cancelled on the day as part wasn’t in stock (3 weeks from booking in to cancellation)
4. Today, EGR cooler needs to be replaced, they were late picking it up (hey ho), they have found that another part (linked to the egr recall) needs to be replaced, which isn’t in stock until tomorrow because they didn’t start work until this afternoon and the parts van had already been…

Why on earth can’t they pick up on time, anticipate that a number of recalls often need additional parts, and never manage to clean the inside of the glass with anything but a greasy, dirt covered rag they found on the floor!

And they wonder why I use a local independent for all other work…

[Mr. Dazzle]

I had my EGR cooler replaced under recall too!

Car shat it's pants for entirely unrelated reasons

[Silly Car]

I had my EGR cooler replaced under recall too!

Car shat it's pants for entirely unrelated reasons

Oh joy!

In other news, first thing (as when I’ll get my car returned) clearly doesn’t mean before 11am…

[Ant]

People who say ooooh that's a nice Merck.

It's not a Merck. It's a Mercedes, stop shortening and putting a K sound in it, nobbers

[KungFooBob]

People who say ooooh that's a nice Merck.

It's not a Merck. It's a Mercedes, stop shortening and putting a K sound in it, nobbers

Oh, you mean a Mercedes Benz?

I have one of those. It's got leather seats and a CD player.

[Ant]

People who say ooooh that's a nice Merck.

It's not a Merck. It's a Mercedes, stop shortening and putting a K sound in it, nobbers

Oh, you mean a Mercedes Benz?

I have one of those. It's got leather seats and a CD player.

But I don't wanna talk about it anymore.

[Bigjawa]

Just found out that, despite my winter boss telling me that he planned to pay more than minimum wage because he felt that people worked better if they felt they were earning a proper wage, he did only pay me minimum wage. It just looked better because of the amount of over time I did

Yes yes. It was my fault because I didn't check, but I trusted him and really hit the ground running with the job so didn't have much time to do translations and ask questions outside the actual job. Stupid. My own fault but FFS!!

I did seriously work over and above because I did think he valued his employees. I did change that view by the end of the season, but having just read (and translated!) my summer contract that I KNOW is minimum wage because he told me it would be, it's paying me more than the winter contract base rate!! (Only cos SMIC/minimum wage has gone up since 1st May). Google confirmed.


So, 100% need to work for someone else for the next winter season!!

Never, ever trust the frogs. They couldn't lie straight in bed.

[v8-powered]

People who say ooooh that's a nice Merck.

It's not a Merck. It's a Mercedes, stop shortening and putting a K sound in it, nobbers

Oh, you mean a Mercedes Benz?

I have one of those. It's got leather seats and a CD player.

If it's a Merc, you probably don't have leather but their vegan alternative (Artico?) - have to opt in for real cow!

[KungFooBob]

People who say ooooh that's a nice Merck.

It's not a Merck. It's a Mercedes, stop shortening and putting a K sound in it, nobbers

Oh, you mean a Mercedes Benz?

I have one of those. It's got leather seats and a CD player.

If it's a Merc, you probably don't have leather but their vegan alternative (Artico?) - have to opt in for real cow!

It's an older model (2014), list price was £70k, so should be proper leather

[Mr. Dazzle]

Germans also have no idea what you're talking about if you say "Merc". It's a Spanish word after all...Mertheedissss.

AFAIK you have to be up at R-R and Bentley level to get real leather these days, or pay the $$$$ for the optional extra stuff.