There really is no hope...

[Poacher]

At the moment to get to a village 3 miles away takes a 23 mile each way drive due to a bridge closure for 3 months.

Open for cyclists, though. Must make the approach roads almost free of motorised traffic.

 

[classic33]

Exactly.
It's all very well for city dwellers to pontificate about the evils of the motor car; but I've a feeling they would change their tune pretty darned quick if faced with the realities of rural living.

Six miles to the nearest shop, that sort of thing?

 

[screenman]

Open for cyclists, though. Must make the approach roads almost free of motorised traffic.

It is brilliant.

 

[Dirk]

Six miles to the nearest shop, that sort of thing?

Plenty of places around here that are several miles from any sort of decent shop, railway station, bus route or taxi service. A car is the only practical option.

 

[yello]

My weekly shopping run is a 100 mile round trip.

 

[fossyant]

In the UK, most vets would likely do a better job than GPs, largely due to all-round better training. Crazy, but true.

I can vouch for that. I should have gone to my cats' vet, rather than up the road to a GP - she did a better job than the GP.

 

[Black Sheep]

I occasionally get verbal warnings on my motorbike's MOT, the chap I take it to knows that there's no point putting an advisory on as he just hands me a set of brake pads with the MOT certificate and tells me to fit them by the end of the week, job done, the pad has enough above minimum wear to pass but it does need changing soon.

I go home and change them.

 

[Proto]

They didn't. They had one tank mounted transversely.
It was the XJ6 that had two tanks.
Good yarn though.

My dad had a couple of XJ6’s, first a mk1 2.8 litre and then a mk2 4.2 litre, and iirc they had 2 x 12 gallon tanks. Filling up took a while.