Originally Posted by go_slow

I have suggested it to them but their response that they dont have the ability to monitor other roads and their remit is only england.

Actually I meant your A - B solution within the limits of their network.

Originally Posted by The Spin Doctor

Interestingly just a couple of days back I got told off for giving away a free PDF that turned out not to be readable in Adobe software, and suggesting that readers used an alternative viewer.

I got told I was ungrateful once, when I mentioned that the free T-shirt I'd just been given had a hole in it, dead-centre mid-chest.

I asked what was the point of an unusable freebie?



FWIW, the HA site performs differently on my @wk PC - often hanging IE. As I've said, I have no options browser or installs of Active-X or whatever.

Originally Posted by Horse

I got told I was ungrateful once, when I mentioned that the free T-shirt I'd just been given had a hole in it, dead-centre mid-chest.

You weren't wearing it when the hole appeared?

Was there a loud bang at the same time?

Originally Posted by The Spin Doctor

You weren't wearing it when the hole appeared?

Was there a loud bang at the same time?

Nope, the shirt was all white, and I was alright

Leaving aside all the techno talk, this thread echoes the feelings of many yachties looking for decent coastal forecasts. Coastguards can only read from their given script and many times you simply want to scream "Look out of the B----y window can't you!".

Surely for most of us wanting to get from A to B isn't the simple solution is to phone up the folk at B and ask them what it's doing at that end?

Looking a bit wider helps too - local radio is pretty good these days with traffic updates - and don't forget things like the shipping forecast and the farmers weather forecast for a reading the runes that is far less Micky Mouse then the symbol littered general TV output.

Added later.......BTW just been to the new Horsefeed forum (Unlike me you will have read the banner at the top of this page won't you?) and there are some super weather report sites being listed.

Originally Posted by BigFella

Leaving aside all the techno talk, this thread echoes the feelings of many yachties looking for decent coastal forecasts. Coastguards can only read from their given script and many times you simply want to scream "Look out of the B----y window can't you!".

Surely for most of us wanting to get from A to B isn't the simple solution is to phone up the folk at B and ask them what it's doing at that end?

Looking a bit wider helps too - local radio is pretty good these days . . .

Some friends were in a consortium to start a new local radio station, and did some limited licence broadcasts.

During one I toddled along to se how it was going one Sunday morning, rding down there in steady rain.

As I walked into the office, 'DJ' was doing a weather report.

The 'on air' light went out, so I walked into the studio. Happened to mention that their weather report was wrong . . . Reply: "Can only say what it says here". Fair enough. Ironically, their studio was in a conservatory - built indoors!