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[TheBoy]

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Last place you want to go, as probably the most expensive shopping in France by some margin.

But plenty of other places not too far away - though best to go further, to get away from the utter shithole they call Calais - and viable if you don't mind losing a whole day just to go shopping.

[Doctor Gollum]

Agreed, although I picked it because it close to the ferry/shuttle and it sells fuel.

Boulogne town is bearable, and if you're making a day of it Brugges is just up the road tother way. 

From Ashford, CE/Calais is nearer than Blue Water in driving terms

[STEMO]

We've cracked the problem about drivers anyway, 27 foreign drivers have applied for the short term visas available.

[Sir Tigger KC]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

[Rangie]

Filled the Subaru this morning , no queueing no limits wife & daughter off on a shopping trip tomorrow.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

How many pints of scrumpy do you need to trade for a gallon of unleaded?.

[Sir Tigger KC]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

How many pints of scrumpy do you need to trade for a gallon of unleaded?.

As a dieselist I don't know M'lud, but I paid £1.37 a litre in the local Tesco's last Thursday and £1.32 in Costco Bristol yesterday. 

Anyway, what's a gallon?    Is that something that old people use? 

[ronnyd]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

That's true, most of the country is mostly back to near normal except for London and the South East. I filled up at local Sainsbury  on Sunday evening, no queues and restrictions on how much i could have. They had had a delivery on Sunday morning.  Walked round yesterday evening and they had run out of diesel again. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

How many pints of scrumpy do you need to trade for a gallon of unleaded?.

As a dieselist I don't know M'lud, but I paid £1.37 a litre in the local Tesco's last Thursday and £1.32 in Costco Bristol yesterday. 

Anyway, what's a gallon?    Is that something that old people use? 

Dieselist?

Is that the dirty black stuff that makes protesters block the M25?

It seems that you and your geriatric great uncle from Liverpool  are to blame for for all of this.

[Sir Tigger KC]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

How many pints of scrumpy do you need to trade for a gallon of unleaded?.

As a dieselist I don't know M'lud, but I paid £1.37 a litre in the local Tesco's last Thursday and £1.32 in Costco Bristol yesterday. 

Anyway, what's a gallon?    Is that something that old people use? 

Dieselist?

Is that the dirty black stuff that makes protesters block the M25?

It seems that you and your geriatric great uncle from Liverpool  are to blame for for all of this.

No.  That nice Mr Blair told us we had to use it to save the planet. 

[ronnyd]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

How many pints of scrumpy do you need to trade for a gallon of unleaded?.

As a dieselist I don't know M'lud, but I paid £1.37 a litre in the local Tesco's last Thursday and £1.32 in Costco Bristol yesterday. 

Anyway, what's a gallon?    Is that something that old people use? 

Dieselist?

Is that the dirty black stuff that makes protesters block the M25?

It seems that you and your geriatric great uncle from Liverpool  are to blame for for all of this.

No.  That nice Mr Blair told us we had to use it to save the planet. 

He could have afforded a helluva lot of diesel with the dosh he saved by not paying his stamp duty. 

[Doctor Gollum]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

Only one garage between Gatwick and Luton had any fuel and that was just petrol. None at Chobham services. Thanks to the M25 being suddenly closed at the M3, I ended up going Sunningdale, Woking, Guildford, Leatherhead, Dorking, Reigate To Gatwick and must have passed 20 garages... Not a single one had fuel. And none on my commute had any either. Didn't waste any time searching Luton for fuel, although apparently Asda had some.

Heading up to Luton, I did pass several brand new '71 plate Daf XFs heading clockwise past Heathrow in convoy sans trailers... No not sure if they were the Armyists or just fresh off the boat and being delivered

The trouble with the whole thing is that thanks to all the retards, the lack of stocks at the pumps has forced everyone one else to buy what they can when they can, and even the sensible people who didn't rush out to buy £5  just to top off, now have no fuel. Net result, as soon as anywhere gets fuel, it's all over faceachebook and within an hour it's all gone 

[Lizzie Zoom]

It all seems a bit Londoncentric to me, as I've had no trouble filling up the last couple of times in the last week. 

Only one garage between Gatwick and Luton had any fuel and that was just petrol. None at Chobham services. Thanks to the M25 being suddenly closed at the M3, I ended up going Sunningdale, Woking, Guildford, Leatherhead, Dorking, Reigate To Gatwick and must have passed 20 garages... Not a single one had fuel. And none on my commute had any either. Didn't waste any time searching Luton for fuel, although apparently Asda had some.

Heading up to Luton, I did pass several brand new '71 plate Daf XFs heading clockwise past Heathrow in convoy sans trailers... No not sure if they were the Armyists or just fresh off the boat and being delivered

The trouble with the whole thing is that thanks to all the retards, the lack of stocks at the pumps has forced everyone one else to buy what they can when they can, and even the sensible people who didn't rush out to buy £5  just to top off, now have no fuel. Net result, as soon as anywhere gets fuel, it's all over faceachebook and within an hour it's all gone 

Yep, my local garage apparently had a delivery of fuel at 1430 today; my daughter rang me up to say get around there fast as there is not yet a queue.  But, no I have not reacted as I now have half a tank after queuing up the other day, which is more than enough for me over the coming month.  I will not fall into the psychological trap of chasing fuel at the cost of others who really need it as I did once.

It would be all too easy to do what everyone else seems to be doing.  Crazy!!

[Doctor Gollum]

I have enough for this week's current needs, but have to drive to Norwich again at the end of next week and buying £30 here and there isn't going to cut it.

Usually I fill up, run the car until the light comes on and fill up again, and you'd think that passing 9 garages on my commute would make that approach perfectly reasonable 

[TheBoy]

Agreed, although I picked it because it close to the ferry/shuttle and it sells fuel.

Boulogne town is bearable, and if you're making a day of it Brugges is just up the road tother way. 

From Ashford, CE/Calais is nearer than Blue Water in driving terms

In my extensive experience, it’s not possible to do a day trip to Bruges

I can’t even crawl, let alone drive.