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I steer clear of all children..........Folk thought I was a mean, inconsiderate boogah...but now they see my point.

Motor caravan, perlease... Looks like a white van as well? Which s a surprise, cos normally they don't register on modern cameras... Spot the drug-driver?

At the time, could the owner really care? At the time, all Escorts were merely cheap transport, or 'fun' motors [motorsport chariots being a tiny percentage]... Indeed, for a punter looking to buy a new car, would a Mexico Escort attract quite so much as one of the others in the Escort range? Or, one of the other manufacturers rampant in the day? I can recall, back in the day, a used Mex often signified a thrashed Escort! Perhaps only attractive [at the right price, low hundreds?] to someone actively involved in club motorsport? I had an allergy to a new Mex, in the day. A colleague had one [from new,, a Mk2]...and my simply getting into it instantly made me start to feel queasy. Turned out to be the plastics used in the dashboard... Navigating in a Toyota Corolla in 12 cars, and I was quite fine, queasy-wise. Nowadays, I dare not take my eyes off the scenery, for fear of vomiting, & dizzy spells, so when offered the chance of navigating a chum in 12 cars, I was most apprehensive...visualising mainlining quells. Besides, my near eyesight isn't too clever these days [needing reading glasses], and a bright light....Reckon I'm better off marshalling these days?

Appropriate for this forum,perhaps? [Dunno if it's come up before, not got the will to do a search] Those were the days..? {When one could feel happy taking one's Aston for a thrash?]

I loved the way the really old sign posts had such accurate distances marked! Unlike today, where distances are so approximate..even down to being indicated in hours & minutes, which is fine as long as one is hurtling along?

All those, identical [appearing?] coaches, looking really clean & bright [no arrows sticking out of the sides??]....Perhaps this was a fleet delivery from a dealer or manufacturer nearby? [A kind-of US version of Plaxtons?] Which might explain the lack of concern by the drivers? Or the fact that the leading buses stopped with hazards [emergency flashers in US parlance...if my Mustang manual is anything to go by? [1967, not this century]] going, indicating perhaps that, aside from the lead driver, nobody else knew where they were going?

I'm willing to bet the relief the engineers suffered was palpable...?

There always has been a serious shortage of nursing staff in the NHS. Going back 50 years or more! A lot has to do with the pay structure....qualified nurses preferring, in many cases, to work via an agency, because the pay is better. For years now the NHS has trumpeted how they recruit [potential?] nurses from many other countries....Indonesia, Philippines, etc. Vocational work seems anathema to the young these days?

Processed cheese slices are a very popular supermarket item.. Easy to use too..but I don't buy such stuff. As for lettuce, one has to keep lettuce 5 or 6 days just to allow time for the slugs to slither out.. But, the healthy options are there....in McDonalds, sauces are also an option, one can delete stuff like that when ordering. The drive thru system [started in the USA] is indeed a very convenient method of serving...Plus, very covid-conscious too.. TAlking of salt, what about the staple baked beans? Or, staple butter?

Do they not have preceding road signs warning of a 'risk of grounding?' to lorry drivers? Or are we seeing a prevalence of sat-nav-directed collisions?

But, it's that '' quid or two more'' that is the breaker, if feeding oneself on a very tight budget! As for salt? Well, one would need to eat from KFC to know about salt...McDonalds stuff isn't 'liberally coated' in salt at all. A small menu double cheeseburger [plenty of protein, especially in the cheese]...has less salt than the two rashers of fatty bacon sarnie available served with an expensive, posh, bread bun at an artisanal caff! The sausage & egg McMuffin is a far better bet than a typical sausage sarnie from a burger van ...especially as McDonalds don't fry the egg, but poach it instead. But, on the topic of 'salt' alone, how many reckon they cook at home, by opening up a read made meal from M&S or Waitrose? Ready-made menus? Where do the ingredients come from? What do they come from? Tesco are famous for hiding other ingredients in their basic staples [Horsemeat, for example? Remember that?] What I like about Maccydees is,all through the recent pandemic, their drive-thru has been open, and clean, for service. Not [just] for the 'fast food', but the change of scene and a nice coffee. With absolutely no chance of having to 'mix it' with anybody else on the planet [which suited me]!! Local caffs? No chance! Deliveroo-type comestibles? Not for the prices being charged, in a month of Sundays! But then, as someone with a taste for a good fried breakfast in the past, I was forever reluctant to pay more than 4 quid for such a meal....yet I know some will question, what sort of fry-up can one buy for 4 quid these days? Well maybe the rest of the world has an inflated view of the cost of food, but I don't!

Blaming McDonalds for the general public's littering habits [adn drive thru's?] isn't really fair on either. I find it amusing how folk view McDonalds [especially] when as a nation of workers we have almost lived off fish n chips [fat fat fat]...and bacon butties [fat fat fat] In the end, it is the buying public who are in control of what they wish to eat....If they 'cannot be bovvered' then that is up to the public. McDonalds do offer all sorts of 'healthy eating' options....It's hardly McDonald's ''fault'' if all the workmen's backsides [building-site b#ms?] don't want to eat salads & stuff, is it? Personally I look upon Maccydees as a cheap, sound option..not all the time, but then, I don't eat fish n chips [any more, at over 7 1/2 quid that's too much for my pension]. or bacon sarnies....[I only get bacon for my S&H when he visits, I have poached egg....its a ''cost'' thing. But then, if I ate out, 4 quid-a-head in my view ought to provide a sound decent meal.......[for two??] Living on a small pension maketh a titewad out of man...

Nope, they don't! Better than vomit or the stink of vaping. McDonalds actually have a clean surroundings contract....in other words, staff go round regularly and clean up the McDonalds area. Not sure Harrods do that to any surrounding car parks? Or M&S? The bins for McDonalds are designed to actually 'receive' any waste packaging, etc, without overflowing. [CAn be lobbed in without having to exit the car, too..there's even an aiming target inside the bin!] I admit to scattering the contents of a Mcdonalds bin out the car window whenever I've driven through West Yorkshire...must be something in the air that makes me do it...Otherwise, its goes in the McDonalds bin. I don't mess on my own doorstep. Those that live in crowded urban areas don't notice the mess anyway. As for chippie smells? I don't know what fats your local chippies have been using, but round my way they clean the oil out regularly, so the fish n chips doesn't smell too bad at all. But for smelly things to follow, try following a motor caravan whose toilet tank is a bit too full? Horrible smell, that blue stuff! Anyway, diversity is bad for us, ask any student?

Erm ..Nope? Why is there a presumption that folk who drink Maccydees coffee, and sometimes eat maybe a small double cheeseburger, or a Sausage & egg Mcmuffin, are going to be [any fatter?] larger than those who eat the pet rabbit's dinner? At least I don't pay for the gratification of being seen somewhere like Pret a Manger? I prefer to only pay for the food, not the ambience or kudos....I leave that to those who have so much surplus cash, they don't know what to do with it?

Watching a recent Zoe, it seems 'herd immunity' refers to the acquisition of natural immunity in a population, by 'encouraging' infections. But, hey [....ll?] I'm not expert, I achieve immunity by not going anywhere near anybody else......which I find very relaxing and calming and pleasant... The vaccines I've had may help in the medium term, and I'm booked sometime for a booster. I will still not have a flu jab, however.....I don't like the idea of deliberately making myself ill.....[like I don't like getting drink..or taking pain killers....or anything that makes me dizzy.]

Not be the many unvaxxers, it seems...?

WHy? Is it because they sell the best coffee at half the price of the gucci latte spots? Or the fact that they sell consistent quality grub, that isn't dressed up like a fashion statement? Their drive-thru service is far superior to paying for parking, then having to walk through the covid-zone and sit in amongst the super-spreaders trying to look like a sophisticate? Or is it that they power their delivery lorries on the spent cooking oil? Rather than paying lip service toso-called Eco-credentials? My only complaint is, the drive-thru order points are all on the right side of any vehicle.....

MAybe U-turn is a less offensive description than 'fork right' or 'fork left'......? Nowt wrong with U-turns.....the real nasties are those stuck in scientific & political dogma...

The important thing is to be able to change one's mind, or 'view', as the science changes. {Which it inevitably does, over time?} It seems, the idea of herd immunity isn't quite giving the percentages it originally was thought to be able to do?

Erm.......don't we all?

Oh how I completely agree on that one!! {Sorry, those two!]

Back on topic...McDonalds appear to be running short of Galaxy Caramel McFlurries.......

It was the ''latte-sippin' bit that I think the mods might have taken a fence or two over? I don't read Guardians, and am off Galaxy for now.....

The swear word, i was ignoring...it 's the very descriptive [and appropriate in my view] rest of it...so very apt, yet deemed potentially so very...erm.....offensive, to some? [if the cap fits, doesn't help matters in this day & age, does it?} Aren't we supposed to be inclusive these days? Or have I got that wrong as well? Speaking as a GoG! {Enhanced spell check refused to cite 'speaking', instead coming up with ''Spa, Spanking, and Sip!! Eeeee, I wonder where they got the spell checker from??]

Don't beat about the bush, Annie.....the mods don't like us saying things as they are....