Really challenging suburban bouldering. The more sportif vehicle has many aero protrusions and intakes for more advanced moves. So kind of the driver to give local yout’ such an opportunity.
Due to ‘congestion’ my train was late, so I missed the bus and had to walk from Eridge Station to Tunbridge Wells.
Taxi was a half hour wait, so I stuck my high visibility tabard on and used my bright torch to navigate the busy main road.
Most drivers saw me and handled the situation safely. Except one motorist that reacted late and gave a good blast of the horn.
Little cunt was told to fuck right off and called a cunt.
Anyway, powered by anger, an estimated 1hr 22 minutes walk took 55 minutes.
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I hate walking on roads with no separate path, despite having every right in law to be there (not on motorways, obvs). The Three Towers Hike, which I did a couple of years ago, has a stretch eastbound through Upper Basildon village to the junction with Little Bowden Lane. In the village it’s not too bad - there’s an intermittent path and a 30mph limit. But the last section - something over half a mile - is national speed limit, quite narrow and with plenty of blind bends. I don’t think I came across anyone whose attitude was malicious but I did catch a few by surprise. Every time I did it, during the prep and on the day itself, I thanked my lucky stars I’d made it. I’d have gone quite a long way out of my way to use any safer alternative. But there simply weren’t any.
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You’ve just ruined my day.
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Exactly this; I could have used the Tunbridge Wells Circular walk however that would have taken a lot longer and I’d have gone well out of my way.
Another challenge was massively overgrown hedges and grass.
Was happy with my pace though, especially as I have a heavy and well stocked backpack!
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Standard Beemer in a car park where there were spaces. There was a jacket hung up in the back window…
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Anybody else comparing the rear ends?
X.
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I am now
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Don’t think the Beemer driver understands French. See number plate.
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That’s impressive, I got 189 from someone and they were basically drifting in and out of consciousness.
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pokey stuff alcohol. 200 ug/100ml is around (assuming 5 litres of blood in a body) 0.01 gramms in total bloodstream. Fuck all for such a massive effect. Death likely at levels of 350 ug/100ml.
Isn’t it in the breath ?
Alcohol is indeed pokey though. But then so are a load of other pharmaceuticals. I’m taking a 0.01g Ramipril tab every day, at least some of which won’t even be absorbed, and that’s the max dose !
I think it measures what’s in the breath because there is a direct correlation to what’s in the blood. The 350 equals death figure is deffo blood , from a medical site.
I’m in pub, one bottle and three pints down, think I’ll cease texting till timorous now.
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Could be a while, methinks 
It’s usually breath, but could also be blood or urine:
Breath is 35 micrograms per 100ml
Blood is 80 milligrams per 100ml
Urine is 107 milligrams per 100ml
What a silly cunt:
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The closure of the roadway at that bridge has caused very major changes to the traffic flows in Oxford city for what, more than a year now ? Oxford has been a bit of a traffic nightmare pretty much since the invention of the motor car. Its roads were laid out in the 13th and 14th centuries and then lined both sides with expensive, now often listed, buildings so there’s little chance to upgrade them.
Still, there’s barely room for pedestrians through that underpass. A bike or a double buggy can really snarl it up. I was going to ask how a car driver could possibly have thought that he would get through.
But it’s a BMW.
EDIT: Turns out he was young and drunk. Now in custody.
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