Fangirl Three wrote:

Why has that roundabout got yellow lines on it? Parking on roundabouts is forbidden by default.

Both roundabouts at either end of the thrillingly named Domestic Road have double yellow lines.

I think it's because of The Hand's sinister influence that this section of road operates outside the normal laws of space-time.

And the highway code.

https://goo.gl/maps/6D75EvEyvdUbhTRU8

I know those guys.

Fangirl Three wrote:

Why has that roundabout got yellow lines on it? Parking on roundabouts is forbidden by default.

You can park on roundabouts.

https://goo.gl/maps/eZYYTse484dy88TA7

https://goo.gl/maps/dG2dwWb5c3JigP4W7



The roundabout on this page no longer exists:

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/changes-and-answers/-highway-code-for-roundabouts

It's true there are certain roundabouts where there's parking - but they're on low-speed roads, rather than no-stopping dual carriageways like the one we were discussing

Correct roundabout procedure

Fangirl Three wrote:

Parking on roundabouts is forbidden by default.

Fangirl Three wrote:

It's true there are certain roundabouts where there's parking, But…

I believe this is called 'doing a GothicFormations'

I have the honesty to admit when I've made an over-large statement

you're doing it wrong.

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

Fangirl Three wrote:

Parking on roundabouts is forbidden by default.

Fangirl Three wrote:

It's true there are certain roundabouts where there's parking, But…

I believe this is called 'doing a GothicFormations'

This is how all forums end, cheap scoring of points off each other

gothicformations wrote:

you're doing it wrong.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5735575,1.7358817,3a,75y,119.29h,71.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPQnF6dCR312muFO-Dyfxaw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Oh noes! our journey round the back of Gorleston has been thwarted - as journeys to the far edges of seaside resorts often are - just take a look at where Southend turns into Shoeburyness - by a port gate and menacing signs.

But take two steps forward, and the gates melt away, the forbidding signs are taped over, the sun comes out, and a young family appear, eating their sandwiches on the edge of the former turning circle.

https://goo.gl/maps/BPfj1rGUJUV848Gj9

Weird but oddly appealing theatre further up the road from there:

World's smallest garden centre

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.5321226,-2.6762998,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMbGgC9KNB-QF5vSLZtJfuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Just along the road, there's a group of people drinking tea outside their cottage and going 'By!' as they see the hi-tech Google surveillance car.

Ooh, Shap of "Shap Summit" fame, a landmark on the M6. I don't think I've ever seen the actual village before.

You have to turn off at the spartan Junction 39 and zap across to the A6.

I've only ever used J39 once, to turn round and go back south after my friend and I had motored up from Bolton to Tebay services for tea.

I have been compiling a map of all the junctions on the M1, M6 and M74 which have off-motorway petrol stations, and handy laybys where you can stop and read a map or whatever.

https://goo.gl/maps/PHzo29Ty2rb17Stn7

Ooh, the famous "Paris, Texas". The film also being where the band Texas got their name from.

Zooming out, you'd have thought they'd have put their Eiffel Tower in "downtown" Paris rather than on a giant concrete car park on the outskirts of the city.