@ayende You ought to try Mercurial. in reply to ayende 1 week ago
01
Dec

Britain’s best motorway service station

For anyone on the road heading to (or from) Scotland, Tebay services (Westmorland Farm Shops) on the M6 is the place to stop. It’s Britain’s only privately owned motorway service station and you really notice a difference. The food is way nicer for starters, and it has a much more homely atmosphere than the enterprisey corporate blandness of all the other places.

I’m writing this post from the above establishment, where we’ve stopped off for a meal en route to Scotland for a week’s holiday. We’ll be getting some much needed rest as well as celebrating my granny’s birthday on Tuesday. She will be 91.

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Posted at 19:31 on 1 December 2007.
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27
Aug

You take the high road and I’ll take the slow road

Can somebody please explain to me why the pointy-haired bosses in the Scottish transport office have a fetish for ridiculously low speed limits at roadworks? It’s down to thirty miles an hour on the motorway leading up to the Forth Road Bridge and ten miles an hour on a stretch of the A90 a few miles south of Aberdeen.

I’ve never encountered speed limits that low in comparable situations south of the border, but then again there are other factors at play back home. The sheer volume of traffic on the M25 reduces things to a complete crawl at times, for instance.

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Posted at 00:30 on 27 August 2007.
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