'Ere, we don't get many pf those round 'ere!

John Stokes · 2003-06-28T07:18:27+00:00

Yesterday I ventured South of the M42 to pick my wife up from Wimbledon,only to discover that they have this strange stuff called traffic and anapparent shortage of Land Rovers. Down in the Chilterns, surrounded by redkites, (Yes,the things people off roading in Wales look out for! These havebeen released from Spain and I'll bet no on asked them for photo ID) thereare plenty of Land Rovers.In London I only saw two, an '88 driven by a black guy who drove round anisland twice to wave and a 101 shoe horned on to a tiny drive nearWimbledon(This was probably one of Martyn's lot as it had stickers on it,but I was too busy trying to avoid the manic London drivers to read it.Look out for my forthcoming article in Land Rover World on the first solocrossing of Southall High St. by 110, ninety minutes for about 2 miles, infact I almost got out at one point to get new number plates from the littlelocal car spare place I was stuck outside for 30 minutes. In Wimbledonitself, most of the population seemed to be Australian, which was fine, asat least they knew what a defender was, although I did get asked a few timeswhy the roof tent was on the bonnet and whouldn't it be better on the roofrack instead of the canoe!Anyway, I'm back in the civilised surroundings of Cannock, or Craddock, asit seems to be marked on some specialist Land Rover maps, and about to sallyforth again to continue the number plate saga, there must be somewhere roundhere which is not staffed entirely by pre-pubescent idiots.Cheers, John

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Mother 23 years ago

Centre of gravity and all that... OK I guess if you're, erm, how should I say this... 'slim'...

I was toying with putting a roof tent on Grumble, but it says on the side that only one person should be on the roof at any one time, so I figured I was already pushing my luck by being up there alone...

Regards

Martyn

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Andrew Harton 23 years ago

Hey - are you calling you fat? I thought you hated that :-)

Andrew

-- SIII 88" | Member of Club Land Rover Ireland | |

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David French 23 years ago

LOL!

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David French 23 years ago

What were you doing on Martin's roof?

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Kieran Turner 23 years ago

Presumably, after having done this, he no longer had an injured horse.

Just a dead one, after it had the heart attack. ;(

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Mother 23 years ago

I hate it when that happens...

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