'another day on the buses'

Here are some pictures of the new BBQ cooking its first dinner. At the back of the BBQ are chicken wings in a spicy sauce, then vegetable kebabs and at the front lamb koftas on skewers. Jacket potatoes are in the overhead rack. My wife couldn’t resist showing off her BBQ skills!

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It’s now 4 months since I bought a Fritz!Box router with VOIP capability which seamlessly integrates the VOIP and regular telephone networks. Since setting the system up I’ve cut the cost of our calls (both BT and mobile) to next to nothing! So long as I don’t exceed a total of 300 minutes (5 hours!) [...]

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Yes, you the pillock in a red wreck of a car on the A31 at Ringwood last night. If you wanted to take the Poulner exit why overtake me a few yards before it? You must have seen that I had my right hand indicator on because I wanted to move over one lane to [...]

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Finally bit the bullet and splashed out on a new BBQ today. It’s a Weber E210 and cost far more than a BBQ should :-( I’ve used gas BBQ’s for years now and each time I need to replace one I spend a bit more. The first was a B&Q, or Homebase, own brand which [...]

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How the 4 weeks between each 193 duty seem to fly! As you may recall this is a Park + Ride duty which is OK during the week but truly awful on a Saturday when a totally different type of customer uses the service. My first circuit left the car park at 08:40 and as [...]

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This makes the Megabus 15 metre Plaxton Panthers look very short.

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