We've gone soft :(
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CAPP0 said:
Ah yes, well spotted, there are indeed 3 of Solihull's finest out there. Here's a gratuitous shot from the "Show us" thread. In my defence, the FFRR is my daily, the 90 belongs to the dog, and the RRC was just an itch which needed to be scratched and came up for sale locally, and is probably not a keeper!
Such a size/chunk difference 'twixt the old and new Range Rover.menousername said:
To be fair, thanks to lack of resources, funds, planning, competence, interest, whatever, those few inches of snow do represent impending chaos and doom in a country where the infrastructure does literally ground to a halt at the first drop of a snowflake.
Aye, and it's largely the fault of the tyre industry. p1esk said:
menousername said:
To be fair, thanks to lack of resources, funds, planning, competence, interest, whatever, those few inches of snow do represent impending chaos and doom in a country where the infrastructure does literally ground to a halt at the first drop of a snowflake.
Aye, and it's largely the fault of the tyre industry. Timmy40 said:
p1esk said:
menousername said:
To be fair, thanks to lack of resources, funds, planning, competence, interest, whatever, those few inches of snow do represent impending chaos and doom in a country where the infrastructure does literally ground to a halt at the first drop of a snowflake.
Aye, and it's largely the fault of the tyre industry. Halb said:
CAPP0 said:
Ah yes, well spotted, there are indeed 3 of Solihull's finest out there. Here's a gratuitous shot from the "Show us" thread. In my defence, the FFRR is my daily, the 90 belongs to the dog, and the RRC was just an itch which needed to be scratched and came up for sale locally, and is probably not a keeper!
Such a size/chunk difference 'twixt the old and new Range Rover.(RRCs do now look like medium size MPVs)
CAPP0 said:
Ah yes, well spotted, there are indeed 3 of Solihull's finest out there. Here's a gratuitous shot from the "Show us" thread. In my defence, the FFRR is my daily, the 90 belongs to the dog, and the RRC was just an itch which needed to be scratched and came up for sale locally, and is probably not a keeper!
Best keep the Classic for special occasions. A classic that has so much class that it's classless; what was regarded as "bling" in the 1980s is now blingless.V8 Fettler said:
Halb said:
CAPP0 said:
Ah yes, well spotted, there are indeed 3 of Solihull's finest out there. Here's a gratuitous shot from the "Show us" thread. In my defence, the FFRR is my daily, the 90 belongs to the dog, and the RRC was just an itch which needed to be scratched and came up for sale locally, and is probably not a keeper!
Such a size/chunk difference 'twixt the old and new Range Rover.(RRCs do now look like medium size MPVs)
p1esk said:
Derek Smith said:
55palfers said:
I was in junior school in 1963 and I don't recall the schools ever being closed.
Didn't the snow come over the Xmas holidays?I felt slightly less ecstatic about it a couple of months later when the stuff was still on the ground...
And no, our school didn't close either
Evoluzione said:
In Dewsbury on Wednesday all the staff and most of the kids made it into school, it took some of the teachers 2 hrs to get through the slow rush hour traffic, but they all made it.
Sounds great doesn't it?
At 10am it started to snow so they sent them all home.
FFS.
Once the bus company the school uses says it's unsafe and they won't be taking the kids home what exactly do you expect the school to do?Sounds great doesn't it?
At 10am it started to snow so they sent them all home.
FFS.
gareth_r said:
55palfers said:
egor110 said:
55palfers said:
I was in junior school in 1963 and I don't recall the schools ever being closed.
We didn't have central heating either.
I expect a lot of the teachers lived in the same village as the school plus there were no h&s rules as to how many children a member of staff can look after.We didn't have central heating either.
Different times.
How the hell would today's Britain have coped in 1963?
Schools shut everywhere apparently because of one day of snow.
We had 3 months of it in 63, so bloody cold we had icicles hanging 2 to 3 feet from guttering, snow was in places VERY deep but did we stop going to school (rarely) and I was wearing short trousers!
Good excuse to repeat my 63 pic of the old lady going to her neighbour at the end of the road.
Today, Elf 'n Safety would reprimand her while 'health professionals' would probably section her!
And for those too young on here who think a few flakes is a snowstorm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI
V8 Fettler said:
Halb said:
CAPP0 said:
Ah yes, well spotted, there are indeed 3 of Solihull's finest out there. Here's a gratuitous shot from the "Show us" thread. In my defence, the FFRR is my daily, the 90 belongs to the dog, and the RRC was just an itch which needed to be scratched and came up for sale locally, and is probably not a keeper!
Such a size/chunk difference 'twixt the old and new Range Rover.Edited by CAPP0 on Saturday 31st January 01:13
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