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Carnwath traffic chaos

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  • Started 7 years ago by gembo
  • Latest reply from Cyclingmollie

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  1. gembo
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    Farmers moving silage in big tractors and trailers, the wee bus to Lanark the bin men and a Porsche parked in gravel outside apple pie. The gravel is used to get the cars passed each other.

    Traffic chaos. Grid lock in downtown Carnwath.

    Later there was even gridlock in auchengray with the cows blocking the road on there way to milking. One cow found the good grass and would not move. This caused much mooing. The farmer and one motorist expressed amazement that I was heading to Balerno. Either they thought it was too far or because why would you if you could go to the apple pie?

    Lot of road kill, deer, badger and fox

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. fimm
    Member

    gembo did you head out in a group quite early this morning? (7:45ish)

    I ask because a group of cyclists appeared behind me as I cycled up the hill after the main Balerno traffic lights; but they never passed me and I assumed that they'd gone down Ravelrig Road - which would be unlikely, actually, if it was your group on the way to Carnwath...

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    It must be pretty hot out there today. I remember returning from holidays in Forth (on the family farm) with sunburn.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    It is baking in my garden for sure. Will have to cut the grass as I have completed my holiday beard growing, back to work tomorrow so will need to shave.

    @fimm I was a bit later, 8.15. - did you see the dead deer in the middle of the Whang just after Balerno?

    I went out Whang but avoided the easterly wind a bit by using back roads on return but rejoined Whang at harburn turn by which time the dead deer was gone

    There is a nice backroad from Forth via Braehead to Carnwath, nice there or Climpy on way up to Forth. Forth also still has an agricultural feed shop. Not far to Lanark either which may still have been good when cyclingmollie was on the Forth farm for the Fair.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. fimm
    Member

    @gembo I posted about the deer in the "Wildlife highlight of the day" thread. More of a lowlight really. I did wonder if I ought to move it but decided that messing about in the middle of the road with a dead deer wasn't all that sensible. A car driver is at least "protected" by their stationary car...

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. Cyclingmollie
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    when cyclingmollie was on the Forth farm for the Fair

    I may once have appeared in the Forth Lanimer procession but I am not going to tell you who I was dressed as. Suffice to say my price for compliance was a water pail filled with Smarties.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  7. amir
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    I may once have appeared in the Forth Lanimer procession but I am not going to tell you who I was dressed as. Suffice to say my price for compliance was a water pail filled with Smarties.

    Are there photos? (Devil emoji)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  8. gembo
    Member

    @cyclingmollie, pail of water filled with smarties? Were you Jill to your elder brother's Jack?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  9. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    Steady Gembo, I was Jack. Come to think of it I have no idea who was dressed as Jill. Amir, yes there is photo evidence but I don't have it.

    Posted 7 years ago #

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