On the way home, I got stuck behind....
Sep. 13th, 2007 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janewilliams20... and old Astra, or something like that. Something boring. 60 limit, I usually do about 70, it was doing about 50. Until we got round the next corner, and it in turn got stuck behind a Landrover doing 40. B***y Landrover drivers.. :)
So, knowing that there were no more places where I could do a double over-take, I sighed and settled back for a slow journey home. Then dropped to third gear, as the convoy had dropped to 30. WTF? The Landrover was now stuck behind some sort of classic lorry - I know nuffin about lorries, but I'd guess it was from the 1940s. Lovely condition, polished, shiny. Probably heading towards the steam fair at Shuttleworth over the weekend. But I can't take photos while doing 30 :(
Up to the T-junction at the top of Old Warden, and the original Astra turned right instead of left, while the rest of us carried on in a steam-fair direction. One less... And then we ground to a near-halt. The lorry was stuck behind something even slower. We'd found a traction engine.
Fortunately at this point the traction engine pulled in, the lorry pulled in behind it, and overtaking occured, peeling off from the back first. I never saw any of them again, despite stopping beyond Old Warden to take photos of Shuttleworth House across the fields. But, heading towards the final roundabout, I did have to pass a huge yellow tractory contrivance.
So, knowing that there were no more places where I could do a double over-take, I sighed and settled back for a slow journey home. Then dropped to third gear, as the convoy had dropped to 30. WTF? The Landrover was now stuck behind some sort of classic lorry - I know nuffin about lorries, but I'd guess it was from the 1940s. Lovely condition, polished, shiny. Probably heading towards the steam fair at Shuttleworth over the weekend. But I can't take photos while doing 30 :(
Up to the T-junction at the top of Old Warden, and the original Astra turned right instead of left, while the rest of us carried on in a steam-fair direction. One less... And then we ground to a near-halt. The lorry was stuck behind something even slower. We'd found a traction engine.
Fortunately at this point the traction engine pulled in, the lorry pulled in behind it, and overtaking occured, peeling off from the back first. I never saw any of them again, despite stopping beyond Old Warden to take photos of Shuttleworth House across the fields. But, heading towards the final roundabout, I did have to pass a huge yellow tractory contrivance.