To ask that you speed up a little.

[Dawndonna]

I live in a rural area. I have to go about my daily business, appointments, shopping etc. So, if you're visiting and admiring the scenery, please pull over. Do not drive at 20mph on a sixty mile an hour road upon which overtaking is either bloody dangerous or impossible.
Drives me fucking mental

To bloody right.

Amen!

And remember how your indicators work.

It is a cow, they are black and white and live in a field.

However can I also say that this afternoons hold up was by a Southern electric van that was going 40 MPH for 10 miles.

yeah, rubbernecking makes me crazy! it's a farmhouse, FFS, if it's good enough to slow down for, it's good enough to stop and take a picture of!

YANBU, and it's not just drivers, I live in the city and I walk everywhere and am usually in a hurry being busy and doing important things, if you need to stop and look at your map fucking stand to the side and do it. And if your part of a big tourist group you can still look where you are going, there are still other people trying to use the pavement you ignorant fuckwits. And if you want to converse with your fellow traveller you can still be aware of what's going on around you at the same time and respond when someone says excuse me you morons.

Not that this bothers me much as you can tell.

yes, my road to and from the horses is a tourist route and there are so many cars who do 40 allllll the way in some maddening obsession with fuel consumption type way - but including through the 30mph villages and the 20mph school zones (even I slow down for those) and the national speed limit bits where surely you would at least do 60? then they go all at horses and riders on the road despite the signs everywhere

can't believe my own hypocrisy at ranting about people not slowing down, I must be in a terrible mood

YANBU.

And would you all stand to the right on the tube escaltors purlease - it is the law of the land.

in fact why is my road even called 'tourist route' with those stupid brown signs? go on the dual carriageways, it is not as pretty but you will get to southwold or aldeburgh much faster I promise

I was once on a training course and following a conversation about this sort of thing which led to a disagreement between two of the delegates about the national speed limit, we ended up doing a quick straw poll round the group as to what we thought the speed limit was for urban, rural single carriageway and dual carriageway/motorway driving. Out of a group of about 20 - all drivers - only three people got all three right.

I was amazed and appalled but if that's indicative of the population at large, I do tend to assume now that when I'm stuck behind someone doing 40/50 in a NSH it's because they genuinely believe that's the speed limit.

but there is no way of not noticing the 30mph repeaters all through villages, and it is painted on the roads too, I think it is inexcusable to speed through those

I don't believe anyone thinks 40 is the national speed limit on any sort of road! Although I used to think were a sort of weekday 8-6pm thing for some reason

i live in a tourist hotspot and you canny go to the shop for a loaf without having to stand in the queue for half an hour plus heaven forbid you want to drive to town which in winter would take 25 mins, allow yourself at least an hour.

You could fire a gun down the main street in winter and no hit anybody.

Trust me Alameda, I wouldn't have believed it either - my jaw was on the floor by the time we'd gone round the group. Eye-opening in a scary, if-they-think-that-what-else-are-they-ballsing-up-behind-the-wheel kind of way.

I'm just eternally grateful I wasn't behind one of them when my accelerator jammed the other day (that would teach them though)

Five, here they are brown and have big horns. DO not mess with the cows

ours are red and very beautiful and, as someone who sometimes goes round roundabouts a few times to admire the baby rabbits at silflay, I actually will make allowances for anyone who wants to slow down for a closer look

Fireandashes, were the people who got it wrong all getting on a bit? I think that some of the speed limits were changed in the 1970's.

I used to work with one man in his 60's. One day he was complaining about everyone speeding and overtaking him when he was doing the speed limit - it turned out he thought that the speed limit on a single carriageway was 50 mph, and 60 mph on a double carriageway.

When I told him that he was in fact driving at 10 mph below the speed limit, he insisted that he was right, because that was the speed limit when he passed his driving test. I had to find a copy of the Highway Code before he believed me.

The same belief persists around here patosullivan - judging by the number of drivers who slam on their brakes to reduce their speed to 60mph or less when doing 70mph on a dual carriagway, when they see a speed camera.

But no-one can explain the phonomenon, entirely local, of driving at 30mph or less on the 40mph limit on the wide, straight, very safe road between two local villages. There are loads of signs saying its 40mph. Quite bizarre.

That might explain it pat, I think some of them were older IIRC.

YANBU but I do think it would help if they did away with the NSL signs and just used ones that actually had 60 / 70 written in them.

That said, I do find it weird that where my parents live - all twisty roads with passing place - is 60 mph when most of the motorway round my neck of the woods is 50 .

Ah but Meh, "National speed limit" means different things to different types/classes of vehicle. Hence the "catch-all" signage.

at baby rabbits at silflay

love that book!

:) I also think 'mind the hrududu' as I drive past

and that I know what it is to wake up 'tharn' at times of extreme terror, probably after nightmares?

wonder if it is safe to read it again or if it will be too sad?