'another day on the buses'

Most of our holidays are spontaneous, being booked only a week or so before departure. Our next holiday is no exception, we’re off to the Canary Islands on Sunday for a one week and it’s all been planned and booked in the past 7 days. On Sunday morning we fly Iberia to Madrid and then [...]

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I’m sick and tired of hearing this. I call a business with whom I deal and whatever is I want to know we have to go through this damned pallaver. They wont even tell you their opening hours without you ‘go through security first’. Yesterday I turned the tables! My mobile ‘phone supplier (that’s who [...]

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The Stagecoach ‘How to use a bus’ guide seems to be covered everywhere which is why I wasn’t going to blog about it. That is, until, I came across this article in today’s Times, I found it very amusing. I particularly liked the last bit. “3: Wholehearted appreciation of the bus driver”. “Look – he’s [...]

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I mentioned on Monday that I’d been in Court that day but didn’t say why. The Court was an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal hearing before Judge Froom, it’s purpose was to hear an appeal on behalf of Essy’s daughter, who had been been refused a visa to come to the UK by the British Entry [...]

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Today I had to attend Court (I was not the ‘scouser in a suit’ otherwise known as ‘the accused’!) and the case was listed for 10:00am. When I got there I found that all the cases to be heard in that Court today were all listed for 10:00am! And suddenly I realised that bus companies [...]

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