On the way to Effingham this afternoon we passed a road sign that warned of a ‘blind summit’. I take this to mean that when you are approaching it you can’t see things coming up the other side of the hill. Am I missing something? Isn’t that a characteristic of all hills?
Entries Tagged as 'Driving'
Further on down the road
October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Further on down the road · Life
What a day! Chrystal passed her driving test, at the first attempt. Well… first attempt at the practical anyway: the theory took two bites. The first one was close though – I encouraged the girl by telling her that the result was not a fail but that she nearly-passed.
Homework
March 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Music, Work
A trip to visit somebody in head office this afternoon gave me a chance to catch up on some homework. It is a 30 to 45-minute drive each way and no chance of distractions – I do not have a company mobile phone and certainly no hands-free kit so no chance of phone calls. It […]
To L and back
March 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on To L and back · Work
I had to visit Leicester for work today, which involved driving all the way there (about 140-150 miles) and back again.   To make matters worse, my colleague who was going with me had a doctor’s appointment so we could not leave until about 10:00am.  This added a lot of stress to the day because my […]
Tags: Driving
Bring me the head of Prawo Jazdy
February 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
I have not really caught up with the last week’s news yet, but I did greatly enjoy this story from Ireland, which falls in the you-couldn’t-make-it-up category.
mileage
February 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on mileage · Life
I got my car serviced and MOT’d today. Looking at the mileage numbers on this year’s certificate and last year’s I see that I somehow managed to do 3,500 miles in the year which is surprising.
Tags: Driving
No Surprises
September 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Life
We shouldn’t be surprised that research shows that people sending text messages while driving are not going to be driving very well. On the other hand, we should be surprised and depressed that this will be news to some people.
Go Wild In The Country
August 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
As the kids were both otherwise engaged today Jayne and I went out for a drive. The idea was just to get a change of scenery, and we ended up in Worthing. We didn’t know we were going there, we were just heading South and veering West, taking the smaller roads through places like Handcross, […]
Driven round the bend
June 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Life, Technology, Work
We had our team meeting today, followed by the mystery activity that had been billed as ‘go-karting with a difference’.  The boss didn’t tell us what we were doing until the last minute, when he gave us a map to Mercedes Benz World at Brooklands, and told us that we were going to be shown […]
Broom, broom
June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Work
There is a bit of speculation about what we are going to be up to next week. The IT department is having its regular team meeting, followed by some sort of non-work team-building activity, but the boss is being a bit coy about the details. He has been threatening us with a team event for […]