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Entries from April 25th, 2009

Another holiday

April 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous

Tomorrow is my birthday. If anyone in Winchester depot wants to know how old I’ll be it’s one less than the duty number I did yesterday (Friday 24th)!! Anyway, to celebrate the event we’re off to La Palma in the Canary Islands for a week. View Larger Map We spent a week there last year [...]

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GPS tracking

April 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous

I’m still struggling to get the tracking data transmitted. During a google search I came across this which looked quite hopefull :-)

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Real time tracking

April 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous

I’m not absolutely sure this is going to work but if it does you can track where I am driving the bus. I’ll activate it tomorrow morning and we’ll see how it goes. I should be leaving Winchester at 06:00 bound for Salisbury. Then departing Salisbury at 06:50 for a rather slower trip back to [...]

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Away for a few days

April 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Buses, Miscellaneous

Easter and my five day rest period have coincided so I’m off until Wednesday. And, as an added bonus, I also acrue two holiday lieu days. It can’t get much better than that! We’re taking the caravan and going to Brokerswood Country Park which I wrote about here in December. Today my duty included a [...]

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Test Valley School

April 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Buses

Oh, did I mention Test Valley School again ;-) There is news. The CCTV I wrote about on Friday has been downloaded and shows very clearly the two culprits who gummed paper over the CCTV cameras! They are seen holding the paper and then an arm stretching up, as the hand nears the camera it [...]

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Mugabe and the White African

April 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Zimbabwe

In 2008 Mike Campbell, 74 years old – one of the few remaining white farmers to have so far held-out against Mugabe�s brutal land seizure programme – took the unprecedented step of challenging President Mugabe before the SADC (South African Development Community) international court – to defend his property and to charge Mugabe and his [...]

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