Stonehenge and its Environs 134
Image by Mr Hamhead

Littlestone wrote:
thesweetcheat wrote:
So let's start there. If the amount of urban car use was significantly reduced, the amount of car use left, consisting of long journeys, rural necessity and LS pottering around the byways would be a fraction of what it now is. Which would be good, wouldn't it?

Sorry, this has strayed waaaay off topic now!

Don’t worry about straying way off topic - that’s a well-respected TMA institution :-) I do take exception to the allegation of ‘pottering around the byways’ however ;-)

moss and I head (by car) for the remoter places as much as possible - places where we know there are things of stony interest. Getting to some of those places on foot would take us a day or two from the nearest bus stop so doing it that way is a complete no-no. The result is that we can maximize our time in any given area. We’re not rushing around, nor are we pottering, just getting to the places we want to get to with the minimum of fuss and the maximum use of our resources.

OK, happy to re-word as "LS driving within the confines of the speed limit in a purposeful way around the byways". Better?

:)

Chuckle... yes :-)

Earlier in the year we were driving over part of the North York Moors that we hadn’t been to before. Middle of nowhere, single lane all the way. No prob, done that plenty of times. Then the fret came down. Jeeze... never driven through anything like it. Nowhere to pull over (not without dropping off the edge) so either stop the car in the middle of the road or drive on hoping it’d clear. It didn’t - not for about half an hour. Visibility down to about 6 foot. Completely disorientating. Sometimes it felt like you were driving up into the sky except there wasn’t any sky - absolutely nothing, all around, except the fret.

Jeeze... never again for that one...