Although I am 58 years younger than this driver.
tinyurl.com/2dzszsa
I still not sure how he got lost, as on the A55 which tell you how to get to Rhyl. It isn't actually a remote village up on Snowdonia mountains, it is just an extension of Liverpool past Flitnshire.
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Nice place Rhyl - twinned with Mauritius.
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>> Nice place Rhyl - twinned with Mauritius.
No, really ???
Mind you, it does get its fair share of unusual wildlife so it might be apt after all...
:-)
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The wildlife of Rhyl is best spotted at closing time out of the pubs!
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I have always much prefered Llandudno, Conwy, Anglesey and the remote villages in Snowdonia.
I have always found Rhyl a bit tacky and I used to holiday near at Pontins Prestatyn that said I haven't been to Rhyl for a few years.
Won't be going to Anglesey in my Panda untilt he spring now either as the weather has gone.
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>>Won't be going to Anglesey in my Panda until he spring now either as the weather has gone.>>
Not very adventurous are you Rattle?
Just Pandaring to your foibles..:-))
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>> weather has gone.
All of it? where's it gone? Got some spare here I can lend you.
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I hoped we would get some decent weather in October, we did but the people I was going with were not free so I have put it back to early Spring. Still going to be strange as I usualy get very drunk in Anglesey I won't be able to do if I am driving back the next day.
I have already driven round the roads of North Wales in my Corsa last year but it should be more fun in the Panda. I have promised to go to Portmadog as last time I was taking them there my mate started being sarcy about my sat nav so I locked in my car stormed off.
We were in the middle of Carnarfon I then got back int he car drove back to Benllech and made my mate get two buses back to the carravan! So they may be a little nervious of going again.
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The business of old age driving got an airing the other night - it's still on iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vs5cb/Taking_the_Keys_Away/
It's a difficult topic.
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I watched it. My grandad died aged 78 and a few months before he died he drove to Rhyl with my grandma. He was suffering from cancer and he really shouldn't have driven that far because he must have been on a lot of medication too but if he somebody told him he couldn't drive he would not have been able to cope with that.
I don't think I will still be driving by the time I hit 80 if I ever even live that long.
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Did you ever hear of the young man from Rhyl, who ate an atomic pill?
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In attempt to discharge him
They rubbed down his body with Vim
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I know one about the good ship Venus.
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With the greatest respect, Sheikha*, it could be said that you need to get your skates on if you mean to start driving by the time you hit 80. It really is time you did some miles preferably to and from the terrible south-east and preferably also abroad.
I know people differ, but meticulous planning of short weekend trips to North Wales with one or more companions strikes me as uncharacteristic of your age group. The motor car used to be sold to people who liked the idea of freedom. Of course it wasn't ever as liberating as all that, but I have the impression that to many these days the thing is a bit of a millstone (despite its competence and reliability compared to the cars of 50 or 80 years ago) and a source of anxiety. I fear it may be a bit like that for you. It shouldn't be though. You really can enjoy the thing without being a hooligan or idiot.
*I hope you don't think this mode of address is meant as a gender smear. Although used as a title when the press refers to some Gulf ruler's wife, the term 'Sheikha' is also a respectful mode of address to a man of substance in Zanzibar among other places. That is how I mean it.
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I think it is a different culture now. Trains are so much better than they used to be and certainly where I live public transport is better than it ever has been. The traffic is also so much worse now than it ever used to be.
The traffic was so much lighter in the old days that people could enjoy it more, and there was no cameras every few yards clocking minor offences. Cars are so much eaiser to drive now but driving itself isn't.
My mother has a fear of cars and I think a lot of it comes from that. If I am driving round roads I know in Manchester I am very relaxed and safe it is when I am strange roads my skills drop.
I might actually have to go to Rossendale in the car next week to see if I can sort things out with a mate I have fallen out with and that would be a 50 mile round trip if I did that
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>> sort things out with a mate I have fallen out with and that would be a 50 mile round trip if I did that
If the sorting out involves much booze, delay your return if possible, and if the process winds you up, be extra careful - not tense - on the way back.
You're cool Rattolo. Cars are just transport to you and you aren't an enthusiast, just techie enough to get interested in some of the details. I can dig that. In fact I know some people who are quite like that.
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I did thing about that, after the initial argument on the phone last week I had to pick up some of my other mates and one of them commented my driving wasn't calm! It won't involve any booze just an Indian but hopefully I can meet him closer to home.
I do love cars, but then I love all forms of transport and I suppose my interest in cars is because of my interest in transport.
I have no interest really in driving but I don't mine driving on the roads I know any more, I think that faded in the last six months. In fact most journeys I am not even aware I am driving it is a sort of autopilot.
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It's not a different culture at all Rattle, it's just that people have different expectations of it.
Most young people have to use their cars to travel to work, to go out and they can't indulge themselves by being able to afford to buy a brand new car and not having to use it, or enjoy it.
You need to get your self over to Burtonwood services on a Thursday evening when they all roll up.
Yes, they have blue lights all over ( and under) their cars, and some of them are old but very tarted up. The noise they make is a pain in the bum to the lorry drivers as they try to sleep on the lorry park but whenever I've been there, we've all ended up watching in admiration.
They enjoy their cars doing donuts, handbrake turns and generally getting the measure of how to handle the car and the limits they can push it to.
Now....think about it, who is going to be the better driver when the first snow comes?
Go on, you know you can do it:)
Pat
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But those are the ones which probably think they know it and end up in a tree :). Seen it all on the Corsa forums.
I live in a big city though so a car isn't really that essential, the only reason I have one is I relied too much on lifts and customers before. It is ten times easier running the business with a car.
I bought my car as a long term investment so I know the history of it etc and I intend to get my moneys worth. Providing I don't have any accidents then the minimum I itend to keep it is eight years.
I already do more milleage than I used to do, I have been doing 100 miles a week the last few weeks, which I know isn't a lot but is a lot when it is also local stop start traffic. If I lived out in the country then I would expect the milleage I do to be a lot greater than it is.
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>>But those are the ones which probably think they know it and end up in a tree :). Seen it all on the Corsa forums.<<
But they're not, the ones who do that are the same ones who buy an old banger and want to brag to their mates how fast it will go, while running them home from the pub.
I agree that probably none of us on here can see the attraction of tarting up a car like the 'cruisers' do, but it shows how much they care about them.
They get their kicks OFF the road, in lorry parks and shopping car parks when they are deserted.
Pat
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>>Now....think about it, who is going to be the better driver when the first snow comes?>>
In the seaside resort where I live the youngsters used to practice skids, power slides/drifting etc on the beach, until the council put a stop to it.
Most of them became very skilled and were almost certainly far safer on the roads as a result.
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Trains are so much better than they used to be...
Rattle, that has to be the weirdest assertion I've read all week! Perhaps you're too young to remember British Rail before twinkly, sound-on-cricket John Major and his crinkly, unsound-on-secretaries Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson got hold of it and broke it up in a way calculated to make it impossible to reassemble - and nuts to whether the system actually worked. It may not have been paradise on rails but at least you could buy a ticket from Plymouth to Norwich with some confidence that you'd actually be allowed to use it when the train came along.
The current system of 21-day Advance Purchase Never On A Sunday Supersavas has a lot to do with the chronic overloading of our road infrastructure, since no-one can afford the full fare, and many don't have the confidence to book a cheaper one because of the restrictions and the paramilitary enforcement.
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Well I can only speak for Manchester, but in the 1960's I could not have a choice out three trains an hour to London all taking two hours. They ran every 90 minutes and took over four hours.
I admit with tickets you do need to understand the system though!
As you may know I traveled from Manchester to south west and stayed in (Avon, Summerset, Devon and Cornwall) I spent less than £100 for all the train tickets including getting down there and getting home again. I had to catch over 20 trains and every single one fo them ran on time.
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Aged 18 in 1993, following A-Levels a friend, my Sister and I went from Isle of Wight to South Wales, to Lake District, to Worksop (where I went over the handlebars of a Penny farthing - but that's another story!), to Norwich, then back to IOW via Virgina Water and Guildford. In a 1982 Visa Special boasting a whole 2 cylinders and 35BHP - and which developed play in a UJ in the steering column - coming round the top of the M25 when it was busy with about 2" play at the rim of the steering wheel was 'interesting'!!
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>>I don't think I will still be driving by the time I hit 80 if I ever even live that long. >>
It's all that worry Rattle..:-)
Relax and escape the misery of Manchester's weather, along with the rootkits plague......
>>..and that would be a 50 mile round trip if I did that >>
The Panda's engine will barely have warmed up...:-(
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Indeed and worry is the thing I do best!.
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>> The Panda's engine will barely have warmed up...:-(
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True, I did a thousand "leisure" miles in four days last week, and repeat that every couple of months. Is the Panda an ornament, or a tool to be used for transport? It's costing you depreciation, loan interest, and insurance whether you use it or not, so get your money's worth out of it.
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It is used all the time though as I say. Just as a local transport machine for transport my computer equipment to jobs. Having a car makes my life so much easier but if I worked in an office 9-5 it would be pointless me having a car.
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...All of it? where's it gone? Got some spare here I can lend you...
The sky's full of it.
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...Nice place Rhyl - twinned with Mauritius...
I bet the civic dignitaries of Rhyl make more goodwill visits to their twin than the other way around.
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About 40 years ago there was a little train somewhere in Rhyll that kids could sit in and it went round a little circuit. It was made to look like a Deltic locomotive and when I was a little boy I thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world. I have 35mm slides somewhere of me sitting up front with hair so blond it was almost white. Don't suppose anyone else remembers it...
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The little boy with blond hair? Nope no-one remembers you.
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Because I didn't have my boots on
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It's still there !
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~stownsen/
Fill your er...boots..
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No no no - too big and impressive.
But I think I may have found it -
rhyl-life.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html
scroll down about ten pics, to the Triang Railway, the first b&w image with the FunFair sign...
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Marine Lake - I think it still may be there .....
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Smaller than that Pug, although it felt bigger at the time.
But you've given me a google starting point.
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Rattle, if you think you're a bad driver then there's even more reason for you to stick to your current 54 bhp car until you've had more experience.
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maybe a course for gaining more skills and confidence what be good for you rattle.
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If someone thinks they are a bad driver, the true position is often the reverse because they know they have to concentrate harder.
Better that than a rubbish driver who thinks he's good and is therefore over-confident.
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i think i'm a pretty good driver but have been thinking of booking a driving instructor or another proffesional person to take me out for an hour and point out any faults i may have picked up over the the 20+ years
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And I thought I was a bad driver - R.P.
