Suddenly, in the past week, my visitor numbers to this blog have trebled. A bit of digging in my webstats exposed the reason. Back in August I wrote about a Lotus Elise Police car in West Sussex with a link to a picture of a Lotus Elise. For some unfathomable reason if you do a [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2007
Megabusblog visitors treble, number 1 spot on Google!
November 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
My meeting with a Staffordshire Bull Terrier
November 26th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
I was loading the 13:40 Brighton to London megabus when up the bus steps bounded a Staffordshire Bull Terrier towing an owner behind it. Whoooa!! “Sorry, no dogs except guide dogs”. This is the first time ever that I’ve had someone try to board with a dog. The owner then claimed to have travelled to [...]
193 duty again!
November 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
I hate 193 Duty! I hate the type of passenger it gets! I hate driving in a small circle in town! I hate doing this for hours on end! The first thing to annoy me was a lady who came running up to the bus when I was halted at one of the car park [...]
The other half of the Digbeth Branch Canal
November 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Today I got to walk the other half of the Digbeth Branch Canal from Curzon Street to Aston Junction where it joins the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. This point is the bottom lock of the six Ashted locks. I found the brickwork, which you can see in the right of the picture, quite interesting. It [...]
Secret filming in Zimbabwe
November 18th, 2007 · Comments Off · Zimbabwe
I was reading David Colthart’s blog (he’s an opposition MP in Zimbabwe) and came across a reference to undercover filming in Zimbabwe by Voice of America. I went to the Voice of America website and tried to find the video but struggled and was about to give up when I finally found it. Even then [...]
Waves and giving way
November 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
In his comment to yesterday’s posting Ian, a Travel West Midlands driver, said he’d waved to me in Birmingham. Unfortunately I hadn’t spotted the wave or I would have waved back immediately. Anyway, this brought back to mind something I ponder from time to time. Why do waving and driving practices vary from area to [...]
