Yesterday it was reported that “Pink has praised her driver for safely manoeuvring her tour bus off a busy motorway after it blew a tyre yesterday.”

Sadly, no one praised me for safely manoeuvring my bus when I had a tyre blow out today. I don’t even think they knew a tyre blew out. Even I wasn’t quite sure if the loud bang was a tyre blowing or a plastic drinks bottle being run over! I was in Salisbury, which is nearer to the Andover Stagecoach depot than my home depot of Winchester, so Andover came out with a spare wheel in a van. Just one small problem they’d brought the wrong size spanner! I call it a spanner but it’s really a wheel nut wrench. Apparently we have larger nuts in Winchester than Andover! (Make of that what you will). Salisbury is the ‘home’ of Wilts & Dorset buses and their depot is just up the road from the bus station so our fitter went begging for a bigger spanner there. Thanks Wilts & Dorset for the loan of your biggest spanner :-)