EltonFrog
Legendary Member
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woodbutcher
Veteran
- Location
- S W France
Bike version of food donations to the struggling French peasant
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Fairy helps with this.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
I wonder if I should have offered to do the 10:00 shift working from home as I was 1.5 hours late for the rostered 07:00 again.
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There are some very skilled drivers out there, a lot get a bad press, but did he not think to give details of he delivery like to whom it was for & what it was before unloading, I always ensured I was in the right place before starting out, been caught like that before. Or the other one, yeah you're in the right place for the invoice, but the goods need to be x miles away.Yesterday afternoon a very large "curtain side" truck (l believe thats the correct description) negotiated its way up the very steep, twisting track which leads to this property. The driver said he had a delivery for me ....who am l to argue ? Anyway l assumed it was horse feed.....how wrong l was.
When he detached one of those portable fork lift truck things from the rear of the lorry l admit l started to wonder what was behind the curtain wall. I have never seen such enormous sacks , four of them each containing hundreds of kg's of fertiliser ! Not however for us but for our neighbour , a kilometre away and up a similar steep , narrow and twisting unmade road.
How that driver turned the vehicle round is another story and was remarkable to behold . Especially for some one like me who has problems doing a three point turn in a car.
woodbutcher
Veteran
- Location
- S W France
It was the latter, right place according to sat nav but wrong side of the valley
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
I used to run a gate house at a large company, so I always look at the bill of lading/invoice, just old habit. Good thing, often there's a trip across the cul-de-sac for the delivery. As my hunting weapon is not a gun, I have no use for several cases of ammunition. (twice) and while I know a bit about autos, I don't have any need for car parts (several instances). I tend to get deliveries for people on the outside of the street, I'm on the inner curve. In the States, we often, as in my case, have mailboxes on posts next to the street, which also leads to jolly confusion. Partly my fault, my numbers keep falling off the box. Bicycle stuff always makes its' way here
woodbutcher
Veteran
- Location
- S W France
Or even your hoshing by wand
Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
- Location
- A champagne supernova in the sky
I've been listening to Miles Davis and waiting for my bread to prove, not to mention reading the Mundane Thread
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mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
Stil got my old Webley Ranger, new garage is ideal.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Glorious out. Just done 16 miles off road as daily exercise. My matching Rock Shox stickers are arriving shortly, so a bit of bike tarting going on later, and Mrs F's BMC MTB will be getting autoglymed.
Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
- Location
- A champagne supernova in the sky
How did that go?
carlosfandangus
Über Member
I used to have a long garage at the back of a previous house with a fully enclosed carport at the side of the house, I used to have a contraption that I made with pennies and two pence pieces hanging on a light chain, amused me for hours
carlosfandangus
Über Member
Just back from Marks's, got what i needed, 17.5 miles