At 11:31 AM 7/31/2002, Clive Smith wrote:
>OoooooooooooErrrrrrrr! Sorry to hear that. Maybe they don't like being run
>on Scotch Whisky.

Hah!  The whisky is even more expensive than the petrol, and tastes a lot
better.

>...and leaving any engine idling anywhere should be an offence, especially
>from cold. Bit like tying your horse up at the saloon without giving it some
>water first.

Not cold, warm.  I didn't dare shut it off, since if I did it would be 2-3
hours before the starter would crank it again.

I learned something there, by the way -- if you get to a town where they
call the chips "french fries" -- run away!

I'm getting misty-eyed remembering...I was just driving around the Edzell
vicinity, since that's where the beast lived.  Took one trip up around the
headland at Petershead, the local force showed me a place to camp.  Winter,
so no startling rape fields.

It was later, in a hired Renault with my wife that we encountered french
fries and all that goes with them, fortunately at the end of our stay...

I'd go back in a heartbeat.

david

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