
Maybe it'll be an exception that proves the rule...
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VoilaCitroJim wrote:Not sure about Milton Keynes but Newport Pagnell proudly announces it is the 'Home of Aston Martin' on all its signsNewcastleFalcon wrote: I wonder if Aylesbury is "Home of the Duck" or Milton Keynes "Birthplace of the Concrete Cow"
Anyone got any good examples to share?![]()
I watched that the other week - it was very good indeed and well worth a second watch.bobins wrote:Reviving a subject from the 'Picture(s) of the day...' thread for the second time.......![]()
Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built
Timeshift
BBC Four tonight 9.00pm
2016 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the Severn Bridge, which completed the motorway link between England and Wales. Timeshift tells the inside story of the design and construction of 'the most perfect suspension bridge in the world', and how its unique slim-line structure arose by accident.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0803m60
Hell Razor5543 wrote:I loved some of Thelwells' interpretations of road signs. The one above was, IIRC, "Warning, tyre swappers ahead".
That could be because they have slippery roads, roundabouts and adverse cambers down to a fine art here: from April, months of the surface being drizzled with diesel and tyre-scuff in the hot sun, and then (in October) the first rains. Lovely!NewcastleFalcon wrote:![]()
white exec wrote:That could be because they have slippery roads, roundabouts and adverse cambers down to a fine art here: from April, months of the surface being drizzled with diesel and tyre-scuff in the hot sun, and then (in October) the first rains. Lovely!NewcastleFalcon wrote:![]()
Oh - and the cheap vino...
A couple more. You can assign countries for yourselves...
Reminds me of the big late-summer and early-autumn hazard in Cyprus Chris... Grape Juice on the roads... During harvest Cypriot farmers loaded grapes into open wagons and the bottommost grapes got crushed long before they reached the winery and gushed juice all over the road... It ended up as slippery as ice...white exec wrote: That could be because they have slippery roads, roundabouts and adverse cambers down to a fine art here: from April, months of the surface being drizzled with diesel and tyre-scuff in the hot sun, and then (in October) the first rains. Lovely!