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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1396652" data-attributes="member: 2844">Reminds me of the famous story concerning two of Britain's top twitcthers (now 500+ listers).  They were driving north battling against the elements to see an Ivory Gull - then a mega-rarity,  The snow was coming down heavily and drifting.  Suddenly, as the veil of snow lifted for a moment, the passenger saw, right in front of him, a huge snow plough coming towards them.  With no time even to shout a warning, he closed his eyes and awaited his fate.  Astonishingly, moments later, when he re-opened his eyes, he saw that the road was clear before him.  Turning to the driver he asked 'How the hell did you miss the snow plough?"  The driver replied with the immortal line "What snow plough?"</blockquote>