The Retirement Thread
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PaulSB
Squire
That's my experience.
PeteXXX
Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
It just landed there!! I stopped for a few minutes rest and... Whoosh.... Down it fluttered! 😋
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
Just been looking for cycle routes around here
a website called bikemap came up with a ride from here out towards Speke and back
I looked
and it goes along a VERY busy "almost motorway"
it dies have a sort of hard shoulder on it - but it is covered in grit and general detritus
and it also takes you past the junction to the M57 where you would have to proceed along the dotted line and just hope any traffic saw you
basically no cyclist is safe there
and 99.9% of us would never ride along it anyway
I have been directed along similar ones in Runcorn and walked back up to the local roads - they are REALLY dangerous
funnily enough these lead to the new bridge - and just before the bridge there is a "No Cycling" sign
and I always think - no cyclist will ever need that!!
a website called bikemap came up with a ride from here out towards Speke and back
I looked
and it goes along a VERY busy "almost motorway"
it dies have a sort of hard shoulder on it - but it is covered in grit and general detritus
and it also takes you past the junction to the M57 where you would have to proceed along the dotted line and just hope any traffic saw you
basically no cyclist is safe there
and 99.9% of us would never ride along it anyway
I have been directed along similar ones in Runcorn and walked back up to the local roads - they are REALLY dangerous
funnily enough these lead to the new bridge - and just before the bridge there is a "No Cycling" sign
and I always think - no cyclist will ever need that!!
Drago
Legendary Member
Just applied on Mrs D's behalf to renew her blue badge.
The website for our local Carncil advises not to apply any earlier than 6 weeks before the expiry of the old one- if you do the application will be ignored.
OK.
So I apply one day inside of 6 weeks, and at the end received a message to the effect that applications can take 12 weeks to process, and in some instances longer.
So that potentially leaves the disabled 6 weeks or more with no blue badge. What a bunch of thoughtless, useless, incompetent, ars...
The website for our local Carncil advises not to apply any earlier than 6 weeks before the expiry of the old one- if you do the application will be ignored.
OK.
So I apply one day inside of 6 weeks, and at the end received a message to the effect that applications can take 12 weeks to process, and in some instances longer.
So that potentially leaves the disabled 6 weeks or more with no blue badge. What a bunch of thoughtless, useless, incompetent, ars...
postman
Squire
I once got on a bus in liverpool,i asked the driver is this bus going to Speke.He replied well i have been driving it since 07-30 and i have not heard anything yet.
Dave7
Legendary Member
Any way to put the bike in your car and drive to a completely different start point ?
postman
Squire
Well London is on the horizon,Mrs P is going on Saturday to record with a Rock Choir at Abbey Road Studios,and returning Sunday afternoon.Pray for me that i don't poison the f i l,then Thursday me,Mrs P and Miss P go to see Paddington at the theatre,plus a meal at something named Flat Iron restaurant,thankfully home same day,not stopping.
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