Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

[GaryMG4]

Was that a new ha'penny or an old ha'penny (the size of a new 2p coin)?

Perhaps both, for full and half choke.

 

[T1 Terry]

Perhaps both, for full and half choke.

What is a 2p coin, could it be the metric version of the term "to spend a penny"

T1 Terry

 

[MG Clive]

What is a 2p coin, could it be the metric version of the term "to spend a penny"

T1 Terry

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p.

 

[T1 Terry]

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p.

That's some bladder, thankfully toilets are still plentiful and free in Aust ...... although, as a very young kid, maybe 4yrs old, I do remember my mother having to buy a ticket to take me into the toilets .... I guess that is where the term "a pennies worth of poo ticket" ..... or it referred to having to buy sheets of toilet paper .....
Dollar and cents were introduced in Aust on 14th Feb 1966, I can still remember the jingle from the advertising campaign .... I would have been 10 yrs old then .....
At school, they didn't teach us anything about how to do money sums in pounds, shillings and pence, they couldn't see the point in confusing us with the old system, only to have to forget it all when money went metric. The lowest denomination coin here is 5 cents, the lowest note, $5, $1 and $2 are coins, no longer notes, and they buy about as much as I remember 1 shilling and 2 shillings could buy

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

Was that a new ha'penny or an old ha'penny (the size of a new 2p coin)?

A pre-decimal ha'penny.

 

[emmrecs]

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p

In many places it's more like 40p!

 

[T1 Terry]

In many places it's more like 40p!

What are the people who haven't got the 40p supposed to do, hold onto it or something .... that is just crazy

T1 Terry

 

[Everest]

Sadly, these days, in the UK most of the van drivers seem to just p1$$ in the layby and leave paper and rubbish everywhere

 

[Archev]

Apparently the four new type 4 superchargers are now available in Tyndrum and are open to all.

 

[Archev]

Oops might be a bit too soon - still mentions “under construction “ ??
Premature e charge elation ?

 

[Archev]

I’m jealous. My son’s off camping with the Ineos again.

 

[T1 Terry]

I doubt too many up and down the Australian East Coast or even around the Victorian coast or Great Ocean Rd, would consider driving down something like that at the moment.
A cyclone still working its way down the coast from Qld, fires in Victoria trapping holiday makers yet again, and a deluge along the Great Ocean Rd the transported cars from driveways and shop parking lots, out to sea. One house washed into what would normally be a creek while the owners looked on, watching it being destroyed.

T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

Son’s just finished dinner and enjoying a beer.

 

[Archev]

Finally my son wends his way home through a slot canyon trying not to scratch the Ineos.

Meanwhile, back in Ayrshire in Scotland , I’m at a farm collecting wood logs. I discovered dozens of solar panels on the farm roofs. Try as I might I could not find the end of the cable to plug in to the Berlingo for a few kWh

 

[MG Clive]

The Ineos going through the canyon is a great picture @Archev

 

[Archev]

Just home from a tedious drive from Ayr to home. Seventy miles of normally fairly good roads, mostly motorways M9 - M8 - M77. Just home nearly eleven o’clock. Through Glasgow there were large chunks of road closed off and diversions. I wasn’t quick enough to jump over to the M74 which would have helped. Then when was nearly home the M9 was closed and I was diverted through Grangemouth.
So I claim the world record for the most flashing orange lights seen on construction vehicles and murderous searchlights on low loaders unloading equipment shining straight at oncoming traffic as they lit up the countryside as well as the trailer decks.
Two day mileage total was just under 225ish. I started at 100% and ended at 25% and stopped at an Arnold Clarke’s Charge unit in Prestwick for a splash ‘n dash yesterday after collecting half a ton of logs for a log burner.
I’m doing the whole trip to Ayr again on Thursday or Friday to collect a friend after her knee replacement operation so the Berlingo is continuing to be a rather useful handy bit of kit. It needs a really good clean and I must remember to top up the washer bottle very soon. One of these days it might become a camper or at least a tent transporter again and we’ll head to the wilds

 

[Gomev]

Just home from a tedious drive from Ayr to home. Seventy miles of normally fairly good roads, mostly motorways M9 - M8 - M77. Just home nearly eleven o’clock. Through Glasgow there were large chunks of road closed off and diversions. I wasn’t quick enough to jump over to the M74 which would have helped. Then when was nearly home the M9 was closed and I was diverted through Grangemouth.
So I claim the world record for the most flashing orange lights seen on construction vehicles and murderous searchlights on low loaders unloading equipment shining straight at oncoming traffic as they lit up the countryside as well as the trailer decks.
Two day mileage total was just under 225ish. I started at 100% and ended at 25% and stopped at an Arnold Clarke’s Charge unit in Prestwick for a splash ‘n dash yesterday after collecting half a ton of logs for a log burner.
I’m doing the whole trip to Ayr again on Thursday or Friday to collect a friend after her knee replacement operation so the Berlingo is continuing to be a rather useful handy bit of kit. It needs a really good clean and I must remember to top up the washer bottle very soon. One of these days it might become a camper or at least a tent transporter again and we’ll head to the wilds

Consider yourself one of the lucky few to have seen some of these almost mythical road workers. I unfortunately have only ever seen what I must presume is their scat around their hunting areas. For those unfamiliar that can be identified easily as orange and white and conical shaped.

 

[T1 Terry]

Consider yourself one of the lucky few to have seen some of these almost mythical road workers. I unfortunately have only ever seen what I must presume is their scat around their hunting areas. For those unfamiliar that can be identified easily as orange and white and conical shaped.

Gotta pinch that one, what a cracker

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

I usually have a slightly different experience. It's a big temporary sign saying slow 60km/hr, road workers, in a 110km/hr zone. I dutifully travel for about 10km at very reduced speed, to come across an end speed limit sign, with no evidence of said work or workers.

 

[GaryMG4]

I usually have a slightly different experience. It's a big temporary sign saying slow 60km/hr, road workers, in a 110km/hr zone. I dutifully travel for about 10km at very reduced speed, to come across an end speed limit sign, with no evidence of said work or workers.

Same here in the UK. quite often signed as 'speed restriction to protect workers', I guess that's because they are invisible.