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Minor Strangeness (IHTM)

Did the one you saw look more like the photo in the Wikipedia article about this "Roadrunner" dedicated comm vehicle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHCA_Roadrunner

If the vehicle wasn't an American full-sized SUV it may well have been a similar security-related UK vehicle escorting the motorocade.

I don't think that was it. My impression is that it had a chunky SUV front end with a more square/cube shaped body, more like this:

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This isn't it, just the shape. The dome I remember as larger but lower than this:

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However, as I said, I only got a very short look at it - I had a van in front of me so only saw it for probably a matter of a few seconds. We know that eyewitness reports are notoriously unreliable & I don't exclude myself from this. It's most likely that it was one of the ones in your thedrive link. There were certainly cube shaped vehicles in the convoy & it's quite possible I conflated them with the more big black SUV ones.
 
It looks like satellite communications, from looking at the pics that Trish71 posted
 
I'm pretty tidy and organized, but the occasional thing I do leave out for some reason gets "tidied" away with an awful lot of eye rolling, never to be seen again. This by someone who covers every (and I do mean every) bit of horizontal surface in the house with her stuff.
I raise your AAARRRGGGHHHH! with a AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!

Ah but my aaarrrggghhh had been toned down out of politeness for the rest of the members on here. If I'd written is as felt, it would have run to ZILLIONS of pages so there!

Joking aside let's just commiserate with each other in our mutual irritation. It's not as if I'm that tidy myself it's just that my piles of stuff are not to be messed with!

Sollywos x
 
It looks like satellite communications, from looking at the pics that Trish71 posted

Yes I'm assuming that's it. I'm thinking that must be the least environmentally friendly 3 day excursion undertaken by anyone ever. There were 3 Chinooks + assorted other helicopters buzzing around yesterday to add to it.
 
Ah but my aaarrrggghhh had been toned down out of politeness for the rest of the members on here. If I'd written is as felt, it would have run to ZILLIONS of pages so there!

Joking aside let's just commiserate with each other in our mutual irritation. It's not as if I'm that tidy myself it's just that my piles of stuff are not to be messed with!

Sollywos x

I HATE people touching my property and everyone at work knows it. Stuff is safe at our depot and we leave bikes unlocked and coats on pegs etc. so my clobber is strewn around the place, and a few weeks ago I forgot to close a zip on my work bag. People gathered round and uum'd and aah'd for a bit until some brave soul offered to zip it up, with everyone else as witnesses. It was a full fortnight before anyone dare tell me!
 
I HATE people touching my property and everyone at work knows it. Stuff is safe at our depot and we leave bikes unlocked and coats on pegs etc. so my clobber is strewn around the place, and a few weeks ago I forgot to close a zip on my work bag. People gathered round and uum'd and aah'd for a bit until some brave soul offered to zip it up, with everyone else as witnesses. It was a full fortnight before anyone dare tell me!

Thanks for giving me something to laugh about this morning! I suspect that there are loads of things that my son is not owning up to! Lots of things have gone missing, he denies all knowledge of course but his face tells a different story!

Sollywos x

Sollywos x
 
Someone I know had a cat that used to bring knickers home, god knows were they came from,
and we had a dog that pinched hankys, he was very good none noticed till much later and
we had to apologise.
 
Still doesn't explain where my missing knickers are!! I'm down to 4 bloody pairs again and at this rate it'll save me a small fortune if I go commando!!

:violin:
I went to the lauderette and i always check the drums in both washers and dryers, well, when i get home i had a huge pair of knickers that were definately not mine, as for socks, well, i lost one, so i trotted back to the launderette and asked if a loan sock had showed up, she went in the back and came out with a see thro bag that was about 3ft high, i said i'll pass lol
 
I had the novelty 80's song Star Trekkin going through my head about half an hour ago. I hadn't heard it or thought about it for years, I've just switched a radio on and it was playing.

I had an Alison Moyet record rattling around in my head on Friday morning, and 5 minutes later during 'popmaster' on Radio 2, Ken Bruce played a clip from that very track as part of a question! I nearly choked on my latte!
 
I had a couple of cheap GPS (sat-nav) developer modules on order from a mainland China tech company on Ebay. I probably ordered them in September. It's been so long, I entirely-forgot.

Anyway, today: small grey package, with label on outside, marked as being the correct items....but no.

I am now the bemused owner of two tiny silver metal human-shaped figures, shaped as if they're riding (or humping) a barrel. Except the scale is such that they'd be doing that to a phone-cord.

Pics to follow
 
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