2, 4, 6, 8, GWR.

[hirez]

Hm. I might be mildly beered up, slightly sunburned and cheered by the discovery of sloes in the wilderness at $work.

I also have mixed emotions, as they say, in the direct aftermath of yon motorway programme. About halfway through, some woman who lives in Warrington and drives an Alfa started on concerning writing a story in her head about liking

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Alternate Britains

[whotheheckami]

And now you've got me trying to remember an illustrated book that was published some years ago that chronicles a succesful British Space Race in a very Dan Dare vein.

Re: Alternate Britains

[hirez]

'How Britain won the space race' by Patrick Moore and someone else? Filled with re-purposed engravings from the Empire Exhibition?

At least, that's the book I have/had. Features the adventures of Sir Humphrey ffried-Fischer and the sage Dreikleinen.

Re: Alternate Britains

[whotheheckami]

Nope, that's not the one; although I will try and track it down. I'm thinking of Warren Ellis' Ministry of Space. More for the wish list ;@)

[anonymous]

An unrestricted M1 that had been finished would be a good start. So too would the highland circle that Beeching killed off completely. Sleepers with observation cars that halt by John O'Groats, naturally aspirated twenty-three litre Bentleys .

Elevating the London Box would be a start. You'd create a fresh new ghetto, and if you jigged your blitz correctly you could start it with brickwork. Hell, let's be honest: if you were to start early enough, you could have zeppelins clear swathes of the sarf for later reconstruction.

Obviously a Beeching Bereft Britannia and the Capital's Concentric Carriageways need a handful of other counterparts. Civil Aviation could have developed very differently if Balfour had stolen another Aerodrome.

[aoakley]

what might happen if she just kept on driving

I get that at M5 J11a southbound. What if I didn't turn off for work that day, and just kept going for Exeter, and spent the rest of my life hiding out in Devon and Cornwall, or got a ferry to France, or a cargo ship to America? I certainly reckon I could get as far as South Africa before my car and money gave up. I wonder if I could make a living as an open-source PC repair trainer for a charity in Kenya? Assuming I didn't die of being a redhead in the sun.

I presume it's rather like the lemming instinct to wonder what it would be like to partake in tombstoning. So far the need to continue paying the bills to support my family has exceeded my curiosity. Still, I could always see how many "next junctions" I could "proceed" to before I gave in to duty. Haven't even got to 12 yet.

[hunkymouse]

When you get the urge to breathe fire and talk to "Leaves of Grass" you know you're getting closer...