There have been quite a few buses in the news over the past couple of days. The first was about “A man who took a bus on a 30-mile joyride through West Yorkshire leaving a £250,000 trail of destruction has been jailed.” Here’s some footage from a helicopter following the chase. N.B. There is no [...]
Entries from December 21st, 2009
Unbelievable
December 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
This is this year’s Christmas card from the UK Border Agency. The irony is that if the Holy Family had fled to England and sought asylum under Herod’s persecution today, then this is the agency that would have locked them up in an Immigration Removal Centre until they could be fast tracked back home!
Leather seats and farting cows!
December 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Buses
I’ve just come across Bus Users UK and the Autumn edition of their quarterly newsletter which includes the following letter. Drawbacks of leather seats I have been a member of Bus Users UK for a number of years ….. I just wanted to note some problems with the current trend toward considering leather bus seats [...]
Cathy Buckle’s December letter
December 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Zimbabwe
Dear Family and Friends, Not a lot of school leavers in Zimbabwe will want to remember the last two years of their education. For most its been a time of such hardship, disappointment and despair that it will be nothing short of miraculous if they pass their O Level’s which are now almost finished. One [...]
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas
December 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
You may have seen yesterday that I tried embedding this flash file but for some reason it failed :-( So here’s the link to it.
Test Valley School again and again!
December 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Buses
I don’t know how many times I’ve written about the Test Valley School bus run but here’s another! Incidentally, typing ‘test valley school bus’ into google.co.uk puts this blog’s pages into positions 3 and 4. Last week, on Wednesday, as I arrived at the school and opened the doors they charged onto the bus like [...]
