I’ve been to Heaven today, liked what it’s like, and want to go back. So, from now on I’m not going to mutter under my breath everytime a passenger with a concessionary free pass only wants to go one stop, I wont get annoyed at the first passenger of the day offering a �20 note [...]
Entries from June 26th, 2009
Off to France
June 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary so we’re going away for a few days in order to enjoy it. Taking the fast catamaran service from Portsmouth to Cherbourg, only takes 3 hours and with an 08:00 departure time delivers you nicely in time for lunch. I’ve booked a hotel a bit further down the peninsula both [...]
Runners
June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Buses
Something happened today which has led me to writing about ‘runners’. Not runners in the regular sense of the word but in the bus driver sense of any intending passenger who is not at the stop but sees a bus they want and runs at it. When you start bus driving every old hand of [...]
Weekly tickets
June 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Buses
I was boarding the last bus of the day from Salisbury to Winchester when a passenger got on and showed me a weekly ticket isued by Go-Ahead. “Sorry, that’s not valid on Stagecoach” I told the intending passenger. “Then why do all the Winchester Stagecoach drivers accept it in Winchester?” he demanded to know. I [...]
1992
June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Miscellaneous
I was driving and listening to a local radio station (Wave 105) this morning and they were doing a ‘Guess the Year’ competition. A caller came on the line to the presenter and said it was 1992. “How did you get that?” he asked. “Well” the caller said “it was also the year of the [...]
Great night out
June 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
We went to The Brook last night to see Maybe Winehouse. The Brook is a small, live music venue in Southampton with a few chairs and tables but mostly it’s standing. Before becoming a live music venue it was a regular pub so you can perhaps picture that it’s a bit cramped inside but that’s [...]
