To Stripey Tara, Bring It On, Diamond Geezer and Big Ron on their successes today at Newmarket. :huggles: :huggles:
Whilst you were weighing in and racing we were finding out that our van hadn't broken at all but the driver had ignored the fuel warning light for too long. (w00t) :b (If only the co-driver had seen it she would have been moaning at him about it since South Mimms services ((Yes it had been on since then)). But then he'd have just ignored her like normal but then she'd have brained him when the putt puttering started so it was probably just as well that she couldn't see it :- " . )
Jest would just like to say to Ron and Reggie that today he was going to trap like a demon and he would have whooped your arses out of sight if only his stupid pit crew had a brain cell between them. :b Oh and Woody would like to add that he'd have won his main final too. That was his only chance just thrown away, by the humans. He's going to go back to running very slowly from now on as it's hopeless to even think about doing anything else.
Well that's what they were thinking whilst parked in the car park of the shopping centre with the Burger King in it. You know the one just up the road from the open meeting. What a shame that we got there on the back of a breakdown vehicle an hour after the racing started.
Still looking on the bright side of things. It was a lovely day to breakdown if you are going to. Not too hot and not raining. We started to putter in the slow lane of the A11 NOT the fast lane of the M25 or M11. And we made it off the verge of the A11 into a parking bay on the A14. We have all come home again safely and sound. The van isn't ill thank goodness.
We travelled back through some lovely countryside and I'd forgotten how nice some of the villages and towns are. Like Chipping Norton which is lovely, lucky June and Len. We stopped off for lunch at a pub. We even went to Bletchley Park. :- "
Alan is looking for somewhere to walk the dogs. He spots a brown sign for Bletchley Park. Hang on I say. That's the place where they cracked the enigma code in the 2nd WW. Remember the film? It's a building NOT a park. Alan ignores me. So several roundabouts later we arrive at the Uni of Milton Keynes and Bletchley Park is looking pink and has scaffolding around it. But even that didn't put off Alan. NO it was the car park fee of £5's. (w00t) So we turn around and go back over all those roundabouts again. :b
Back off towards Buckingham when we spot blue flashing lights and there's an accident. So a rather nice detour along some single tracks roads is taken and we find some pretty villages that we wouldn't have otherwise seen.
Later on we are just going through another very pretty village and the top of the porta mag falls off the hooks and lands on the deerhound. Tally promptly starts crashing around in panic. So we have to stop the van in this very narrow street whilst I sort him out. Thank goodness Fern wasn't in there as well it would have landed right on her and she'd have had to tell Tally to not panic (w00t) . Later on we have another deerhound incident because after a pee and drink stop for the dogs Alan has forgotten to latch the door and a deerhound is loose and trying to clamber on top of him as he drives along. (w00t)
By this time Alan is desperate for a cup of tea and so we divert to see my mum.
Whilst you were weighing in and racing we were finding out that our van hadn't broken at all but the driver had ignored the fuel warning light for too long. (w00t) :b (If only the co-driver had seen it she would have been moaning at him about it since South Mimms services ((Yes it had been on since then)). But then he'd have just ignored her like normal but then she'd have brained him when the putt puttering started so it was probably just as well that she couldn't see it :- " . )
Jest would just like to say to Ron and Reggie that today he was going to trap like a demon and he would have whooped your arses out of sight if only his stupid pit crew had a brain cell between them. :b Oh and Woody would like to add that he'd have won his main final too. That was his only chance just thrown away, by the humans. He's going to go back to running very slowly from now on as it's hopeless to even think about doing anything else.
Well that's what they were thinking whilst parked in the car park of the shopping centre with the Burger King in it. You know the one just up the road from the open meeting. What a shame that we got there on the back of a breakdown vehicle an hour after the racing started.
Still looking on the bright side of things. It was a lovely day to breakdown if you are going to. Not too hot and not raining. We started to putter in the slow lane of the A11 NOT the fast lane of the M25 or M11. And we made it off the verge of the A11 into a parking bay on the A14. We have all come home again safely and sound. The van isn't ill thank goodness.
We travelled back through some lovely countryside and I'd forgotten how nice some of the villages and towns are. Like Chipping Norton which is lovely, lucky June and Len. We stopped off for lunch at a pub. We even went to Bletchley Park. :- "
Alan is looking for somewhere to walk the dogs. He spots a brown sign for Bletchley Park. Hang on I say. That's the place where they cracked the enigma code in the 2nd WW. Remember the film? It's a building NOT a park. Alan ignores me. So several roundabouts later we arrive at the Uni of Milton Keynes and Bletchley Park is looking pink and has scaffolding around it. But even that didn't put off Alan. NO it was the car park fee of £5's. (w00t) So we turn around and go back over all those roundabouts again. :b
Back off towards Buckingham when we spot blue flashing lights and there's an accident. So a rather nice detour along some single tracks roads is taken and we find some pretty villages that we wouldn't have otherwise seen.
Later on we are just going through another very pretty village and the top of the porta mag falls off the hooks and lands on the deerhound. Tally promptly starts crashing around in panic. So we have to stop the van in this very narrow street whilst I sort him out. Thank goodness Fern wasn't in there as well it would have landed right on her and she'd have had to tell Tally to not panic (w00t) . Later on we have another deerhound incident because after a pee and drink stop for the dogs Alan has forgotten to latch the door and a deerhound is loose and trying to clamber on top of him as he drives along. (w00t)
By this time Alan is desperate for a cup of tea and so we divert to see my mum.
