Motoring Discussion > Road gritting ~ first time this winter Miscellaneous
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 07:44 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - L'escargot
As I approached the council depot on my way home last night I met four gritting lorries coming towards me. Unfortunately both the first and the third were actually gritting and my car got a double dose. However, I'll give the driver of the third the benefit of the doubt and assume he was temporarily testing his gritting mechanism.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 07:57 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - henry k
The gantry signs on the M40 south from Oxford to the M25 ( 00:30 this morning) said "Gritting ...." but I did not see any trucks in either direction.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:05 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - FotheringtonTomas
Cross-country from Suffolk to Gloucester - fine clear weather, roads dry and frost-free. Oh, except in Bedfordshire. The roads there are all wet and filthy and covered with whitish salt. Is this county known for especially harsh weather?
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:07 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - R.P.
Gritting ? My teeth usually - long ride as a "must do" tomorrow - mild and wet it seems ! Beautiful day in N Wales today - can actually see the sun glinting off the the railway tracks up Snowdon - bloomn' cold though.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:13 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - R.P.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-11616145

By chance I find this apparently we're being urged to find "snow friends" makes a change from "no friends" I guess. :-(
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:24 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - bathtub tom
>>roads dry and frost-free. Oh, except in Bedfordshire.

Grit had been applied by 4.00pm I noticed. My outside thermometer recorded -0.4C last night. I think they got it right. That's the second time this month they've gritted round here (to my knowledge).
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:20 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - BiggerBadderDave
"As I approached the council depot on my way home last night I met four gritting lorries coming towards me. "

I thought this was going to be a riddle. Like "As I was walking to St Ives, I met a man who had five wives"

How disappointing.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:25 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - Crankcase
>> I thought this was going to be a riddle. Like "As I was walking to
>> St Ives, I met a man who had five wives"


It's seven. Not five.

Surely you can manage seven wives.


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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:31 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - R.P.
That would mean seven mother-in-laws....not good.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:33 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - BiggerBadderDave
"seven mother-in-laws"

at a rough guess that would be one and a half metric tonnes of lard.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:31 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - BiggerBadderDave
At the same time... that would be a personal best for me.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 11:44 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - Crankcase
iffy will be back soon. Until then - it's mothers-in-law...:)



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 Mon 25 Oct 10 14:59 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - L'escargot
>> "As I approached the council depot on my way home last night I met four
>> gritting lorries coming towards me. "
>>
>> I thought this was going to be a riddle. Like "As I was walking to
>> St Ives, I met a man who had five wives"
>>
>> How disappointing.
>>

That would have had to have gone in the Non-motoring section.
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 15:01 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - R.P.
Garry Gritters as they used to call them around here.....
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 Mon 25 Oct 10 16:45 
 Road gritting ~ first time this winter - Mike Hannon
When I was a youngster my boss - a rich eccentric if ever there was - used to live on the top floor of a hotel overlooking the 'sea' at Weston-super-Mare and catch the train every day to the office in Taunton.
From November each year through the winter he also had a reserved room just along from the office at the Castle, then Taunton's best hotel (that later produced Gary Rhodes), just in case bad weather meant the train didn't run.
He was actually an old-fashioned gentleman and when, eventually, he died he left me 29 quid in his will. But that's another story...
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