'another day on the buses'

I didn’t hear it mentioned on the radio, tv or in the press but it must have been ‘national be nice day’ yesterday. It started as I left Winchester depot and drove up the slip road onto the M3, the slip road is uphill so it’s difficult to reach the speed of the traffic on [...]

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I’ve made several postings about the continuing uncertainty of these services and whether I would continue to have a job driving a megabus. I also made rather scathing mention of how employees learn of changes by tracking things on the internet whilst being kept in the dark by their employers. At last we have official [...]

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A couple of days ago when driving back from Brighton, along the M23, my eye caught sight of what I thought was a Californian Redwood tree. I know they do grow in the UK but can’t ever recall seing one before. This specimen looked as if it had once been magnificent, despite appearing to have [...]

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I came across this when searching for something quite different! ———————————- “… I waited for ages for a bus and then two turned up at once!” Anyone who uses buses anything like frequently will have had this experience. (And those who choose not to use buses probably use this kind of occurence as one of [...]

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Today is a rest day, I’ve got a stinking cold and a throat like the bottom of a parrot’s cage, so I’ve done nothing other than sit at the computer and fiddle with this website whilst sipping Lemsip. You’ll notice that the time and current weather is now shown for both Hampshire and Zimbabwe. I’ve [...]

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Yesterday I drove to Romsey to buy some bedding straw for my chickens. Leaving Romsey there is a mini-roundabout (the raised hump in the road type) I stopped to allow traffic from my right to pass, and was about to move forward, when a bus appeared trying to do a complete circumnavigation of the roundabout! [...]

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