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Date Posted: 19:45:16 01/24/11 Mon
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: ...and another thing
In reply to: BB 's message, "...and another thing" on 00:08:09 01/24/11 Mon

What public transport? There is a bus to Bury St Edmunds, which takes an hour & half to get there, I can drive it in 30 mins, plus I can drive to my place of work and park, whereas to bus into town means then catching another bus out to the industrial estate, getting to work more than an hour late, and having to leave an hour early to get a bus back into town to catch the last bus to the village, which goes at 5.25, so there really is no case to answer. We could get to David's brother's house in Surrey by only having to change trains once, but there is no transport to get to Diss to catch the train, and if there was we would have to catch a bus at the other end as well, and the journey would take 3 hours, we can drive there in less than 2. Although we have bus passes we only catch a bus from the park and ride in Norwich, where we can leave our car for free as we have the bus pass, now that one makes sense. 've still no desire for a satnav though but would probably consider one if we were to take holidays on the continent and were driving there, as it would make sense then.

Is your Jag the one that you were enthusing about a while ago about buying? Nice and comfy, but my dream car would be one of the old Rileys. Been in one several times, but only driven one once, leather covered steering wheel (not one of those covers that you lace on yourself but a proper one), leather seats, driving it on almost empty roads at the dead of night to get down to Gatwick airport to pick up my soon to be husband, in a friend's car as he said he would take me down to collect him as he was coming in at some ungodly hour, so he, his wife and I all went down, and he let me drive most of the way there, back in the days when the roads were still quiet, in the 60s. Bliss. Dad had an old Triumph Roadster 1800 1946, i metallic baby blue (it had been sprayed before he ever go it), like the one that Bergerac drove in the TV series. He would have let me drive that but I couldn't see over the steering wheel, nor could I reach the pedals and in those days the seats didn't move, long bench seat with dicky seats in the back where you sat as an extra passenger, and got frozen and wet as part ofthe boot lid lifted up and the rest dropped diwb and you sat behind the lift up bit and then the back bit was put back up. Not much fun on a freezing cold December night!

Gilly

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Re: ...and another thing -- Ani, 23:06:04 01/24/11 Mon
Re: ...and another thing -- BB, 23:54:28 01/24/11 Mon