Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

I visited our Leicester site today, driving all the way there and back in one day just for a few meetings.  Not great for the carbon footprint I know, but I have been in the job for a year and so far I have managed to do everything by videoconference and it was about time […]

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This afternoon we were coming out of the multi-storey car park and there was a bit of a queue.  It turned out to be that somebody had stalled their car.  I’m sure we have all managed to stall a car on a steep ramp1 but not when going downhill.  I’m not sure I could do […]

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I have been doing a lot of driving in the last couple of weeks, at least by my standards. Under normal circumstances I can often go a week without getting behind the wheel, but with trips to visit the old man in Herts and visits to Raynes Park and Basingstoke for work, and a […]

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The story about driving test fraud today explains a lot. How many times do you see examples of total fuckwittery on the roads and ask yourself “how did they ever manage to pass a test”?
I had just assumed that some lucky drivers had got their licence free with a box of cornflakes, but it […]

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On Monday night at 10:30pm one the town’s few speed cameras was set on fire and destroyed. It is at a location where plenty of children cross to get to school. Nine-and-a-quarter hours later, on Tuesday morning, a 14-year-old girl was run over crossing the road on the way to school.
The two events are […]

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I do hope that this directive to judges will not be portrayed as motorist-bashing by the sort of twat who goes around vandalising speed cameras.
It will do for now, but I think the whole classification needs to be re-thought. At the moment there are offences of ‘careless driving’ and ‘dangerous driving’. Given that even […]

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I tried to cheer myself up by thinking of the positive results of England losing to Portugal, but all I could come up with was:

Jayne has now removed all the England crap from the car.
Thats a big plus. The flags were naff but harmless but the England sunshields in the rear passenger windows made reversing […]

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