Posted by Robert Dilley on August 17, 2000 at 21:26:55 from 205.189.37.81:
In Reply to: Re: Transport Difficulties posted by Alan Hakim on August 16, 2000 at 23:32:47:
In Elizabeth George's mystery novel "The Old Contemptibles" the detective's aristocratic sidekick goes to a remote valley in the Western lakes (a first visit). At Grasmere a woman in an information office directs him, hesitantly, over Wrynose and Hardknott, saying the road is "iffy" (another Briticism?) but much shorter than going south around the fells. When he reaches the other side he stops the car, leans his head against the wheel and mutters to himself "this is what she calls "iffy"?" -- and speculates that the sheep would have had much more to laugh at if he had tried going over the pass in his Bentley. (As mentioned before, it is quite exciting in a Volvo estate).