I used to carry snow chains on the truck when I was on continental haulage, a legal requirement when transiting Switzerland on the way to Italy. But I found that snow curtains were better. These were the ones you pulled around the cab windows on the inside after the central heating was put on. slept until the road was clear…worked every time!
I was out walking an old airfield near home yesterday afternoon. luckily I have a little Suzuki Jimny 4×4 but it still took an hour and a half to get home because everyone seemed to be using maximum revs to get up the slightest incline. Except for one young girl in a little Fiesta. I followed her up Cats hill in Stanstead Abbots, she was turning the steering left and right gently while using low revs and got her way up the hill. I wondered who taught her that old trick. I was very impressed.
A few miles further on we were travelling between Roydon and Harlow on a narrow backroad that was down to one lane. A set of headlights were behind me and after a couple of miles I heard hooting, A Corsa with a bucket for an exhaust overtook the pair of us, the driver, and I use the term loosely, was shaking his fist at me for travelling behind the Fiesta without attempting to overtake it.
How I wished he would have stacked it on the next bend, but he obviously got away with it…this time.
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