General Chat

That's not hard giving your age!! LOL LOL *runs away before gets slap round lugs* Sorry Polly me only joking wifie......!!!! Let me know what you think and get back to me...will try and get hubby out for dinner too but he's stuck with ferries and often gets held up......I will try!!! RDA.x.

Hi all.........just had confirmation email from GHH to say we're booked into the drawing room on the 29th August for approx. 12 people but that can be altered easily if more or less people wana go...........I have to say I'm really looking forward to the mini-meet now......not that I wasn't before but now it's booked and everything!!! Looking forward to meeting you all.........know Polly already but that's easy we only live 6 miles apart but it'd be nice to finally put faces to names and do we all look like the other's imagine???!!!! RDA.x.

Looking forward to it. Just checking the trains now, not many from Glasgow to Fort William, looks like the 8.20 from Queen Street which gets in at 1202, so will pick Lemon and the boy up from there and scare them with my driving to Glenfinnan..

The boy??? Someone else coming too?

No, you are the boy....!! Wait till you see my driving......round the windy , narrow roads....

I'm a man, last time I checked.

Don't be saucy, !

Hey Polly will I add my A830 song I had on another thread yesterday....*goes of to dig out the words again* LOL RDA.x.

Here you go Daniel....just for you....and to make sure you know it's the road that's the problem here not Polly's driving!!! THE 8-3-0 (Ian McCalman) He was driving up to Mallaig, Glenfinnan by Loch Shiel, Heading for Lochailort, content behind the wheel, The road was getting narrower... the sign said slow, It’s the Highland daily dodgems, it’s the 8-3-0. There is a natural assumption that ‘A’ roads are wide, Enough to take a car... and one the other side, Tourist information, will never, never tell, It’s like driving through heaven on a road made for hell. Cos it’s a single track, you can’t turn back, The stories are all the same, of the tourists leaving Corpach, Never seen again... Don’t go, on the 8-3-0. There’s a joke in the highlands, it’s called a ‘passing place’, Where French stay for chips... and English stay for days and days and days, When lorries lose control... you’ve got one last wish, “Don’t let me die under 20 tons of fish”. Cos it’s a single track, you can’t turn back, A nightmare without end, Eyes ahead, ‘cos Nigel Mansell’s waiting round the bend... Don’t go, on the 8-3-0. Whoever called this road a road was telling little lies The 8-3-O’s a sheep-track in very thin disguise, Italian caravanettes, driving on the right, Meeting Wallace Arnold buses in the middle of the night. Of the man that’s stopping progress, a theory’s going around, That he owns the biggest breakers yard this side of Mallaig town, You can see him in the gloaming, towing wrecks from where they lie, And he turns them into girders for the bridge across to Skye. And it’s a single track, he’s in Mallaig and now he feels no pain, He’s dumped his car; he’s in the bar he’s steaming back by train... on a single track, you can’t turn back The moral’s very plain, it’s grand to visit Mallaig... but it’s safer by MacBraynes, Don’t go on the 8-3-0, Don’t go on the 8-3-0, Don’t go on the 8-3-0. RDA.x.

I'll drive. I can do that. Just as long as there's not dodgy manouvers there'll be no probs.

you have to avoid sheep...you've not passed you test yet have you ? My driving will be an added bonus...and RDA's poem is true....one track over the last ten miles, dodging lorries and caravans, thrilling ride, you'll love it...

I can drive in theory

Polly when I was learning to drive here I got speaking to a holiday maker when I worked in the Old Library (angel & alan's days!) anyway this holiday maker was a driving instructor from somewhere and said to me 'if you can drive on these roads lass you'll be able to drive anywhere...' We could always just test Daniel..........lets see if he can meet a screeming ambulance and fire engine and police car all heading to an accident and trying to pass you on single track in a hurry............lets see if he can reverse at warp speed back to the passing place he passed 500yrds before with a fish tanker bearing down on him from behind coming off a steep hill above the passing place??!!!! certainly gets the heart pumoing eh Polly??? LOL LOL RDA.x.

Remember those roads well. My friend used to live in Reay up by Dounreay. He thought he was a rally driver. Raven

Good roads aren't they Anne, full of hairpin bends,,,screeeeeeeeeeech !!

So it's settled then. Seatbelts

Rally driving??? That's just a sedate Sunday drive compared to here!!!! LOL LOL RDA.x.

Not so much seatbelts for here Daniel it's more a case of roll cages and safety harnesses!!!! LOL If none of those are standard in your car then you aim for the biggest clump of heather half way up the hillside or take your chances with a fish lorry!!! RDA.x.

think i better bring some spare catlitter

Absolutely. Ohh Fond memories. Daniel don't forget to practice your crash position. Brace yourself Raven