I left the house at ten o`clock this morning to take Mother on a flying visit to Sainsbury`s in Christchurch - a round trip of about six miles at the most. Left the house in blazing sunshine. No problems on the way there - BUT, we come out of the supermarket to torrential rain, and the traffic blocked solid and not moving!!! Just to add insult to injury, my windscreen wipers chose not to work!! It has taken me an hour and a half driving with my head out of a side window to get back home!!!!!!!!! Apparently, someone told the wrinklies of New Milton that the blockades have gone back up - have they? - and they have all jumped in the cars, intent on replenishing the cup full of petrol it took them to fill their bliddy cars up on Friday!!!!!! GRRRR!!!!! I am hopping mad - I had to join a traffic queue which stretched back past the railway station - just to get back into my own house!!!!!

To add insult to injury - as if I needed it - I can only assume that Bentley has been chasing the flashing lights on my computer and managed to set the printer in motion (after I might add, having skanned the inside of the lid of the skanner) and obviously tried to `catch` the sheets of paper going through the printer!!! Needless to say, the printer is jammed solid too, much like the roads!!!!

I`m going to back to bed I think!!!!! <<:o{

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Answers

The blokade looks like it's back on !!

Now...about your bed................need company?:-)

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Appears to be rumour...I'm bored already (and it's not just 'cos of LR's contributions).

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Not an offer I get every week, LR! But frankly, you`d be better off saving your petrol. (:o)

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

If the blockade is back on, try the service stations on the motorway if you need fuel. None of the media were letting on that there was fuel available there, presumably so as not to block the main roads with people just out to get fuel. For instance, we drove back down from Northumberland last saturday, and most service stations had no queues and no fuel restrictions at all.

During the actual crisis, another good bet for those in NE is the Jet station just north of Morpeth on the A697 - Fenrother I think. Always seemed to have something, even if you could just get #10 worth, and queues weren't too bad - 20 mins max.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Was goingf to put this on another thread but whatthe heck, Got home tonight and found my bicycle (this is Asia) with no seat on it. Some f*****s tried to steal my bike by removing the seat then cycling off on it (the chain was through the wheel and on top of the framenot through it, yes, I'm an idiot). Anyway, have no bike 20 minute walk to the station and I've got a meeting at 8.00 am. Can someone please remind me why I live in Japan.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

We've still got a gallon of diesel in the boot that we didn't need to use last weekend - any offers?!..........

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Sorry for ranting folks! It`s not the lack of petrol that makes me so mad, it`s the mass stupidity - you can guarantee that at least half of the people dashing out to `fill up`, already have three quarters of a tank full anyway! Sheep.....bbbaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!(:o|

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Kegsy - `cos you like sushi? (;o)

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Every filling station around here is choked with panic-stricken dimwits queuing for petrol responding to unfounded rumours. BBC News have just quoted Birmingham Police as describing the situation down there as "urban hysteria"

All this sh*t is reminding me just why I left this country in 1980 to live in the US, and making me wonder why the hell I came back - other than to watch the Toon of course!

Spending last week in N. France & Belgium in quaint towns and villages that were clean, graffiti and lager-lout free, and full of nice small shops - butchers, bakers, cakes, sweets, cafes etc - with not a steel shutter to be seen anywhere, made me realise what a sad shlockhouse this country has become.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Don`t fancy Yelli`s chances of getting out of the NEC tonight then Clarky.(:o|

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000