chicken george wrote:

The local road bridge is to be closed for 6 weeks for refurbishments, meaning a 15 mile detour to take the kids to school.

Surely it's not Thornton bridge that they're closing for 6 weeks....... or is it

I was trying to have a giggle no wants to play
I expected to have a double barrel rocket launcher pointed my way
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Thornton bridge it is , 9 march onwards then more closures in 2016 At work
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rocket launcher is fully primed b ythe way just incase any caravans try and sneak past At work
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I shall not pass the Kent border

cancelled! the old bridge cant be used insurance reasons ,Im having to drive round like all the commoners  At work
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Insurance would not stop the caravan dweling itinerant metal recyclers - just become a trespasser and get on with it! Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

Get someone to tow there caravan over first, to test it
If it all go's pear shaped at least you would smile
Dnot do it I was joking

the bridge is blocked with a big pile of brash. so nobody is going across,

there is a foot bridge I can drive to around a wheat field then walk the kids 1/2mile to school, or Mrs G can.

whats going to hurt is the ongoing 3t limit on the road bridge for 10 weeks after it reopen. great when you have fields on both sides of the river and even a tractor with no implements on weighs more than 3t. nevermind a loader and trailer with 10tonnes fertiliser onboard.

Ive already moved a 10t load over and parked it in a mates barn. At work
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That sounds crap c,g for give me I don't know your bridge etc
But could you make a ford by it ?

no chance very steep banks and quite deep water.

2 people have died in the river locally, one guy was a second hand car dealer and had a bullet hole in his head

the other guy jumped off the bridge to end it all, his rope snapped, he splashed in and died of hyperthermia. At work
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PEDANTIC ALERT!!!!

that would be hypothermia, unless the water was boiling

Sorry, I'll get my coat....

made me laugh

With the run off from the chicken sheds, Hyperthermia may be right

maybe I was burning caravans at the waters edge that year At work
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