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  • Numpty_Monkey
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    Quasar has 62,509 posts and got rossettes:T
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  • Blackruby
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    I wonder when I get my next star, 200 posts perhaps?
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  • bank_of_slate
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    Hello, I'm back from Leyland nr Chorley!
    Passed a very nasty accident on the M62 where a car had hurtled off the carriageway by the farm that's in the middle of the motorway!
    ...Linda xx
    It's easy to give in to that negative voice that chants "cant do it" BUT we lift each other up.
    We dont count all the runners ahead of us & feel intimidated.
    Instead we look back proudly at our journey, our personal struggle & determination & remember that there are those that never even attempt to reach the starting line.
  • bank_of_slate
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    For those of you who are thinking "A farm in the middle of the motorway??????"

    Yes you read right!....observe:

    island-farm.jpg

    ...Linda xx
    It's easy to give in to that negative voice that chants "cant do it" BUT we lift each other up.
    We dont count all the runners ahead of us & feel intimidated.
    Instead we look back proudly at our journey, our personal struggle & determination & remember that there are those that never even attempt to reach the starting line.
  • Numpty_Monkey
    Numpty_Monkey Posts: 14,196 Forumite
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    Blackruby wrote: »
    I wonder when I get my next star, 200 posts perhaps?

    think its about 250 for the next one:confused:
    PROUD TO BE DEALING WITH MY DEBT NERD #869
    Numpty,Not sure why but I'm crying :o . Of all the peeps on this board you're the kindest & most supportive of all & I'm :mad: & :( for you all at the same time . Wish I was there to give you a big :grouphug: & emergency hobnobs
    xx
    DFD 5/1/16
  • boredofbeingathome
    boredofbeingathome Posts: 15,657 Forumite
    bank_of_slate wrote: »
    Hello, I'm back from Leyland nr Chorley!
    Passed a very nasty accident on the M62 where a car had hurtled off the carriageway by the farm that's in the middle of the motorway!
    ...Linda xx

    And you didn't call in because:confused::p

    Sounds awful there are always accidents on that stretch of the road:eek:
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    bank_of_slate wrote: »
    For those of you who are thinking "A farm in the middle of the motorway??????"

    Yes you read right!....observe:

    island-farm.jpg

    ...Linda xx

    Can't see the car though... ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    I go past that farm on a fairly regular basis Linda - when they build the motorway they tried to force him to sell up, but he wouldn't, so they had to build around him. He used to sit on his roof and play a fiddle in protest (according to my Mum.....who isn't the most reliable source of information :rotfl:).
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
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  • boredofbeingathome
    boredofbeingathome Posts: 15,657 Forumite
    Snaggles wrote: »
    I go past that farm on a fairly regular basis Linda - when they build the motorway they tried to force him to sell up, but he wouldn't, so they had to build around him. He used to sit on his roof and play a fiddle in protest (according to my Mum.....who isn't the most reliable source of information :rotfl:).

    I heard that as well snaggs...still it was from my mum and she is of a similar ilk:o
    Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
    Still lurking around with a hope of some salvation:cool:
  • System
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    bank_of_slate wrote: »
    For those of you who are thinking "A farm in the middle of the motorway??????"

    Yes you read right!....observe:

    island-farm.jpg

    ...Linda xx
    Sounds bad Linda. I remember watching a documentary called TheSecret Life of the Motorway and one of the episodes concentrated on the construction of this bit of motorway, how long it took and how horrendous the weather conditions were. They also spoke to the family that are still there now!
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