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Reasons to be cheerful 2023

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  • I'm not sure if it's still the case but when I did my advanced motorcycle course with Surrey police  they told us that any officers involved in an RTA, were automatically suspended from driving duties until it had been fully investigated. 
    AB Still learning

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm not sure if it's still the case but when I did my advanced motorcycle course with Surrey police  they told us that any officers involved in an RTA, were automatically suspended from driving duties until it had been fully investigated. 
    maybe the tory party should adopt the same policy?

    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I'm not sure if it's still the case but when I did my advanced motorcycle course with Surrey police  they told us that any officers involved in an RTA, were automatically suspended from driving duties until it had been fully investigated. 

    Not a bad idea.  The officer involved here clearly wasn't concentrating properly.  It may have been an unfamiliar vehicle but that's all the more reason to take care.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    He's probably still doing the paperwork
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Great story, @KT53.

    MY RTBC is that my lone, much wanted snowdrop in our front hedge has finally made its appearance. I've been trying to get them to grow there for over ten years!

    Also the solitary crocus has also appeared again right in the middle of our tarmaced drive.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I have a white bluebell that grows out of a step. I hope it comes back again this year.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    He's probably still doing the paperwork

    That is so true @B3.  Many years ago I was a passenger in a car which crashed and completely blocked a narrow lane in Devon.  Coppers arrived and gave me a torch in order to wave down cars at the bottom of the lane and let them know there was no way through.  He was more concerned about me wandering off with his torch than anything else because, according to him, there would be more paperwork for losing the torch than for the accident.
    The only injury in the crash was one passenger who got their foot caught in the seatbelt getting out.  I forgot to mention that the car ended up on its roof.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I had been sitting and minding my own business, drinking a coffee, while the missus went into M&S to do a bit of shopping.  She came past, dumped a bag beside me, and asked me to take it back to the car.  It was only when I stood up that I realised it was a lilac shopping bag with "Shopping Queen" in large letters on the side.  I wouldn't have minded taking it if wasn't for the wording - I hate shopping. :D
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I didn't even have to click on your link to know the story @pansyface as I heard it on the news. It's lovely, and apparently the chap is going to give half of the proceeds to the farmer, which is even better   :)
    It's also reassuring, and uplifting, to hear of decent, kind people like that man these days, especially with the utterly repugnant abusers, rapists and murderers etc that seem to be in the news every day, making me, and others no doubt,  depressed. 

    I hate shopping too @KT53 - every kind, regardless of the bag!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Our 5-year-old grandson reckons this is a RTBC.  (He wants one...)  It was driven, remote controlled, into the garden on its caterpillar tracks, then raised on its padded feet.  Me, I'm not so sure - it means saying goodbye to the rowan trees...   :/


    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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