'another day on the buses'

95 duty is the duty with the most Megabus driving and I did it yesterday. The driving starts with Winchester to London, then you do a London – Brighton – London before the return drive to Winchester. In all it’s bit under 500kms. All was going well until the Brighton to London trip, I was [...]

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I was going to take a couple of pictures of my chickens yesterday, after I’d cleaned them out, but they looked terrible! They were soaked to the skin with their feathers stuck to them. Here they are today looking much happier.

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I really am quite lucky, it’s a Bank Holiday weekend and my rota shows it as rest. The downside is that is that as I look out of the window the trees are swaying in the wind and the rain is falling steadily. Either the rain needs to stop or I’m going to get wet [...]

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June 24th will be our first wedding anniversary and I’d been wondering how to celebrate it. Spent most of yesterday, a rest day, booking a week in Majorca leaving on June 24. Neither Essy, nor I, are herd animals. We much prefer making our own decisions about where to stop, for how long, what to [...]

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Until I started driving a bus I had no idea that bus ‘trainspotters’ existed, if you know what I mean! My first introduction to a spotter came in Portsmouth: where this bus spotter’s film was made. As I slowed entering the first roundabout after the motorway a photographer took a picture of the bus, an [...]

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It’s been a fairly routine (boring) couple of days. Both today and yesterday were local Megabus duties, on Wednesday it was the Portsmouth/Southampton feeder and today I went ‘out of service’ to Bournemouth to do Bournemouth 06:00 departure, Ringwood at 06:30 and then to Winchester for 07:00. At Winchester another driver takes over to do [...]

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