Mundane News
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The problem here is that they never seem to complete anything. The main access road into the town has been worked on now for at least two years.
The day I cycled to the Mull of Galloway, as I was leaving my B&B in Stranraer, they were starting to dig up the street and the guy helpfully moved the road closed sign to allow me to go where I wanted.
When I got back at around 6ish, the workmen were all gone and the road beautifully re-surfaced where they'd been working. The council here would more than likely have spent weeks doing it. Perhaps Dumfries and Galloway council set the standards the rest should be judged by.
classic33
Leg End Member
The local, to me, council relined a half mile stretch of road, centre line, ghost islands, zig zag lines outside a school and junction markings, a little over a month before the road was due to be relaid.
They're good that way, "saving money"!
They've got to be taking the pi... Oh.. Wait!
classic33
Leg End Member
Picture?
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
This may be mundane for most of you, but may be of interest to @Reynard (unless she already has this in her files)
On another forum a request for info about a Euro FF2000 race in Germany in 1987 elicited an entry list from the programme with some very familiar names...
Knowing her fondness for the second listed driver, another link to the Leinster Trophy meeting later in the same year included this photo of her favourite third placed driver
Although she may prefer the other photo on the same link
On another forum a request for info about a Euro FF2000 race in Germany in 1987 elicited an entry list from the programme with some very familiar names...
Knowing her fondness for the second listed driver, another link to the Leinster Trophy meeting later in the same year included this photo of her favourite third placed driver
Although she may prefer the other photo on the same link
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Chicago? Two seasons in Chicago, Winter, and road repair.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Sunny day today with fluffy cumulus clouds, which have now flattened out at the bottom and produced a downpour here.
I am eating a kolacky of the raspberry persuasion.
I am eating a kolacky of the raspberry persuasion.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I have those two photos.
The one from Mondello as an actual print, thanks to the generosity of a very kind soul. There's actually a whole saga behind that year's Leinster Trophy relating to tyres and politics, where the "winner" of the race was the guy who finished second to the local Irish driver who *did* win the race. In the photo, that's Paul, JJ Lehto and Allard Kalff.
That entry list, though... Please tell me @Jenkins that it's from the race programme for the 1987 German GP meeting at Hockenheim...
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
I have those two photos.
The one from Mondello as an actual print, thanks to the generosity of a very kind soul. There's actually a whole saga behind that year's Leinster Trophy relating to tyres and politics, where the "winner" of the race was the guy who finished second to the local Irish driver who *did* win the race. In the photo, that's Paul, JJ Lehto and Allard Kalff.
That entry list, though... Please tell me @Jenkins that it's from the race programme for the 1987 German GP meeting at Hockenheim...
Yep - German GP, 1987.
The saga on the Leinster Trophy is here for anyone that's interested (which is where the photos are located)
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Ta very muchly me old bean.
I *thought* that was the case, but every time a copy of the programme comes up for sale, none of the sellers have ever bothered to reply to a query and confirm that. It would be so much simpler if I had a copy of Autosport or MN with the reports from the meeting, but my stash of those is a bit swiss-cheesy until mid '88. 
Next time a programme comes up at a good price, I can just go and pull the trigger.
That's where I found the whole sorry tale a while back. Motor racing facepalms at their very best. Or very worst, depending on your perspective...
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
And raspberries are very persuasive.
classic33
Leg End Member
I'm not so sure.
