Tbh, I don’t just ‘nip into town’. Bath is 14 miles away from me, and Swartz Bros., is the only real reason I would ever go there. If they shut down, I would probably just ride somewhere else.
ooh that's interesting. I go up to that London four or five times a winter delivering with work - I rarely have to go into the congestion charging area, and have thus far always managed to skirt along the edges of the ULEZ - but if they expand it to anything inside the North and South Circular, that'll include most of our London-based customers. So does that mean in a 3.5 tonne truck I can't go in, or just that I have to pay to go in?
Check the reg on the gov website . As i read it , over 3.5 tonnes and an older diesel - that`ll be £100 per day madame .... Criminal ...
I still wander in to Bath for a Schwartz burger every so often, you’ve got to order them first before you go now. Mrs Ozziedog and me go about once a fortnight or so for their burgers. We go to the one in Milsom St as it still has the old style cooking facilities, Normally I’ll have a blue cheese burger and a garlic Mayo cheese burger and some fries and a shake, Mrs Ozziedog has a plain Mayo burger and fries and shake. We’ve been going for quite a while since they shut the one on Gloucester Road in Bristol. Take the van when it’s nice or take the old Zafira if it’s damp / cold/ salty/ etc. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,,wonder if we’ve ever crossed paths ?
Looks like it'll be £12.50 a day for me. For a once a month delivery run that includes 4 or 5 drops in the zone, it could be worse. Not so great for people who have to go in every day
Ive been going there one way or another, since I used to buy my rave tickets up the road at Soul Survival, in the late 80’s...
now wondering how long they’ve been there? The one in Bristol was a place where some of us would gravitate during the period we were messing about with CB radio before the inevitable happened and they introduced a legal FM UK only CB. That period prior is when someone suggested meeting up there and that was it I was hooked. Up until then I had given up on ever getting a decent burger ever again after coming over from Oz and the miriad of small burger bars making real milkshakes too. I came to England and was out sight seeing/ shopping with some rellies and they suggested getting a snack while we’re out in town, I jumped at the chance and we followed up by going for a burger and a milkshake in Wimpy Not impressed would be an understatement, a cold ish soggy burger with as much charisma as my grans hemoroids and not quite big enough to fill any of the cavities in my teeth When I first saw it on my paper style plate, camaflauged with a piece of ****** grease proof, I thought my uncles were having a laugh and they’d got me an imitation one made of plastic well they may as well have, it was awful and that word is nowhere near how rank I rated that burger after the rellies waited in a long queue for a half an hour when I was assuming they were cooking fresh to order. I was mentally imagining the burgers sizzling on a grill with the occasional flip and the SSsssssssss every time they go over, it weren’t nuffink like that . The strawberry milkshake was definitely not a strawberry milkshake, this was 1976 and wherever you went in the UK, the cold drinks were not refrigerated or even cold, they were room temperature. If you went into a shop for a can of coke or Fanta, or even a pub for that matter, nothing was refrigerated, it was just room temperature and on warm days, it was warm??? Back to the milkshake, it was a glass of milk with a bit of strawberry flavouring added and it might have been sterilised milk too because there was no fridge, so I got a glass of warm milk with a dribble of strawberry sicklyness in it and Unc says “ here ya go”,,,,,,” Enjoy” I never ever let on, but maybe my face said it all, but what a creation and there were people in a huge queue, I bet some of them are still stuck in it now Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,saved by Schwartz
There's a clean air tax coming to Birmingham by June 2021 Ish that's £8 per day my van a 2007 Renult and the wifes 2012 mini will both be charged but the camper is free lol blows your mind really.
It's only the start of it ... I reckon Historic status on the log book will attract clauses in the near future such as limited mileage per year , and probably reintroduced road tax with a higher pollution tax bracket. Enjoy your freedom while it lasts... Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
I charge £50 for going inside the M25 now as most of it is a dump lol. Now it will be £150 I guess. My Sprinter is 2014 euro 5. At the MOT it barely registered on the emissions.
No bud, I didn’t. There was way toooo much to keep up with in and around Brizzal and the occasional ‘ convoy’ off down to Weymouth or wherever. Looking back, did I really do all that ? Yes we did I spose . I also would drive to some of the high points and DX for a bit In an old tranny I had. I’d fixed up a series of batteries (mostly crap) along with a thousand watt burner sat on the dash next to my multi mode or whatever rig I was sporting at the time, and I had a twelve foot scaffold tube poking through the roof of the van with a twenty seven foot Avanti home base Ariel on the top , I think it was an Avanti sigma four but the mists of time are swirling DX ing was very addictive once you started getting Q cards from around the world, I once got into Beirut Lebanon on the skip and spoke to three or four different peeps with varying levels of English, mostly chatting about the troubles over there and I managed to get one to send me a Q card and that was my most unusual. Got into Oz once and once only although the skip was good for a week or so but I could hear them but couldn’t poke through for them to hear me, it may have been the same in that some may have been calling me but I couldn’t hear them. For some reason I had to try and get past hundreds calling me from Hereford and Worcester but maybe the ionosphere was leaning that way mostly? Who knows. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,, CQ,, CQ,, CQDX,,CQDX,, Station Whiskey Oscar Oscar Bristol Uk
Oh, my call sign, Whiskey Oscar Oscar was the phonetics of my C B handle, can anyone guess what my handle was Very similar to my user name but a little more magical Ozziedog,,,,,,what could it be ???
