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Entries from September 30th, 2007

Bloodbus

September 30th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Does anyone know why the bloodbus blog has disappeared?

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Not a very good day

September 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Today was 193 duty again and as usual everyone conspired to make it miserable for me. Why do passengers with the least mobility always want to sit on the back seat of the bus? They board and then slowly shuffle their way back, holding onto seat backs and poles so as not to fall, passing [...]

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Horrendous traffic delay

September 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Yesterday I had my worst ever journey from london to Winchester. Departure time from London was 17:00 with arrival in Winchester scheduled as 18:45 The time allowed is not generous but I usually make it before 19:00 At 18:30 I rang the depot in Winchester to speak to the driver who would be bringing the [...]

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Can you let me out?

September 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

I think many other passengers may have said something less polite :-)

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News from Zimbabwe

September 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Zimbabwe

Below I reproduce an extract from an article in the Mail on Sunday of 23 September, the full article is here. I think it is important that as many people as possible know of the tragedy which is Zimbabwe. As soon as we were back from Italy we phoned Zimbabwe to let my wife’s family [...]

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US megabus film

September 26th, 2007 · Comments Off · Buses

This YouTube clip is about as uninteresting as the inside of a door knob …… until you get about 75% of the way through it. It then shows some of the features of a US megabus including video screens and, very surprisingly, the seats appear to be able to be turned around! Maybe it’s a [...]

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