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Article: Sat Nav can take you to the most interesting places

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September 14, 2007
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Sat Nav is short for Satellite Navigation. This is a system which gets you from A to B down a very narrow country lane (C) which is not quite as wide as your vehicle (D) with the result that you get stuck and arrive very late or not at all at B. The only way you are ever going to get yourself out is by enlisting the help of a local farmer (E) to pull you out with his tractor, and as he has only just returned home after rescuing the last Sat Nav casualty, it is (F) unlikely that he will feel much like turning out again just for you.

The first time I ever came across Sat Nav was when I was doing a talk at the Windsor Festival and they offered to send a chauffeur- driven car to wildest west ...

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