Seems the poor devils have to call the relevant council to clear paths for them .
John H
We have a bunch of those nitwits round here who 'adopted' Brooks Drive a closed to traffic green lane which was down to just a gravel track passable by anybody in wellies or decent boots cost the council a mint and the labour of bands of easily lead volunteers to return it to a featureless roadway you could walk in soft shoes.5 years on it has returned to its original state reason because nobody uses it just the same folk who did before 'the improvements' were made, happily the original features have also returned so the wild plants are happily thriving and the Squirrels are playing with their nuts :-) Derek
Pity you cant add a few Adders for good measure
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:21:13 GMT, "Hirsty's" scribbled the following nonsense:
and this seems like a timely oppurtunity to issue a reminder that National Green Lane Day is looming soon (29/10/06) when GLASS and other motorised ROW organisations actually put something back into their hobby by doing some maintenance work!
Just yell for details, several of us here are either area reps or exec members!
Pity they have their act far better together than we do.
They're parasites. Well organised parasites, mind.
Perhaps this (and other) forums might be a good place to give a list of "events", or calls for volenteers? I say that as, even when Green Lanes Officer for N&NROC I could never actually find anyone/ anywhere where help was required. I'd love to put a list up in the shop to encourage sensible thinking by letting poeple know it goes on, if nothing else.
Just a thought.
Richard
Yeah go in there and strafe the ramblers with their military lasers.
Ooops, showing my age and geek-ishness there.
The military vehicle lot are pretty good too, they join societies and when an issue crops up, they write en-masse to their local MPs, not using stock template letters, voicing their objections. They managed to get an exemption to the lookalike firearms bill and other bills through this method, otherwise they'd have had to saw all the guns off tanks etc.
Green Lane Day, 29/10/06 - count me in.
Gordon in Kent
A solution for the elite, surely?
On or around Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:55:26 +0100, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:
I reckon you need that volvo with the 0.50 mounting on it, and a suitable cannon.
Heh, well spotted, I was playing the BBC second-processor version this morning believe it or not.
Well considering there is quite a criminal industry re-activating de-activated firearms I wonder how easy it is to reactivate a tank?
On or around Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:48:42 +0100, "Larry" enlightened us thusly:
oooh, now that's tempting. I always fancied an Abbot (?) SPG...
and you cant be done for carrying a concealed weapon how about an ex army people carrier item # 220017219544 I was looking at the rain so guessing no painting just yet? Derek
On or around Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:46:43 GMT, "Derek" enlightened us thusly:
cool. I love the pictures of it in the petrol station. I doubt the council would approve of using it as a school taxi, though - I bet the kids would love it. Sort of thing it'd be fun to do once, at end of term or something. It'd probably cost more in petrol than the job pays, though.
you guess correctly. it did wash the dust off the roof though. roof is the only bit not yet painted - I suppose it might be worth hunting some suitable primer to put on first, save effort.
ooh, a Zil:
LENGTH 28 FT
WIDTH 10 FT 6"
HEIGHT 10 FT 4"
this one takes the biscuit, though:
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