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Big yellow sign just gone up outside my house. "Tour de France parking --->" :angry: I blame Stat Brother.

Rest assured, Stat, we here in Saffron Walden are fully embracing the Tour and look forward to welcoming the combatants tomorrow. That is just a traditional Essex welcome. Sadly, I shall be leaving my home at 06:00 hrs tomorrow to go on holiday - brought forward by 24 hours to avoid the...

You're so patronising it's quite breathtaking.

They would be very welcome to do so as I shall - hopefully - be long gone. However they will probably get towed by the bomb squad and have a controlled explosion conducted on their boot lid!

That's what I like to hear! :lolol: I sincerely hope everybody who is into cycling enjoys the spectacle. Not all of us are - and for those on the route the attitude of the organisers has hardly won over converts - but I willingly concede many are, so have a good time. To answer an earlier...

This is very true. The race comes past my house and I can only gauge the level of excitement based on this straw poll: We have brought our holiday plans forward so we could be out of here by Sunday night. My neighbours left the area yesterday and will return Tuesday. Our other neighbours are...

My local town, Saffron Walden, has gone Le Tour crazy in preparation for Stage 3 passing through!! Well, they have put up a bit of bunting and packets of carpet tacks are available on a 'buy one, get one free' basis.