Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

sjaypink

Doozergirl wrote: »

DD just told her friend that my mum is in Devon. I think she may have meant Heaven unless there's something I don't know!

I'm going to risk proper public transport later and catch an actual bus to Worcester. Wish me luck!

Good luck

Last time I went on a bus was to take myself and 7 kids (crazy I know:eek:) out to meet family for lunch.
3-4 mile journey. I nervously asked for 1 & 4 halves (others under 5) whilst offering my tenner.

I wasn't nervous because of the expected price - how naive of me :A- but because last time I travelled regularly via bus, it was hit & miss as to whether you could board with a note!
Remember as a teen quite often used to have wait 2 or 3 buses until I got a nice driver who would break a fiver for a 55p fare....grumpy bastards...

Anyway, £10 wasn't enough! Had to scrabble around for another 2 quid!

So, the purpose of my rambling was to remind you to go to the bus stop via the cashpoint

PasturesNew

Round my way there's no way to find out how much a bus fare is unless you phone the company and ask them - so that's restricted to when they're open. Else, it's asking the bus driver.

You'd think they'd have put the prices online by now.

I've no idea how much going 3-4 miles would be from here, because it's not a journey anybody'd make. In any direction it's 20 miles before a town, so 99% of people getting on the bus will be going 20 miles on it.

Davesnave

Hah! Just caught the !!!!!! who has been putting their rubbish out 1.5 days too early, causing filthy mayhem as their bin bag is assaulted by crows right outside our gate. It's a shocker.............local Headteacher. :eek:

The crows got there first, of course, but under the half-eaten takeaway, complete with china plate and Chelsea United Mug (!!!!!!?) was a receipt for a car part, so now I even know his chassis number!:p

OK sleuths, so what do we learn from Headteacher discards Indian food and the crockery it was on/in, an empty Napoleon Brandy bottle, several lager cans and the receipt for a window winder on a Renault Megane? Oh, there was half a packet of wet wipes and a pair of gloves too......

Well I'll tell you now, our Indian here is pretty crap, so maybe that's not suspicious.

His last Ofsted wasn't too brill either.....:rotfl:

PasturesNew

Just tried to see if they've put the fares info online yet, they haven't... but I have now discovered that there is a One Day Ticket for £7, giving unlimited journeys.... although it's limited by how far you could travel and how useful that'd be. I worked out once that to go from here to Land's End on the bus would mean staying on that bus upon arrival as that was the last bus back too.

There's another, that's unlimited travel for one day within the town boundary, which isn't big, costing £3.45 or £2.30 for a child. Mostly it's about a mile to the left and right of where I'm sitting now.... so as much use as a chocolate teapot.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

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Last week's holidaymakers put theirs out first thing in the morning, then drove off. Binmen don't come until about 3pm.

Within the hour the bag had been ripped to shreds and everything was across their whole drive and across the road. There was one big plastic bag that contained some very large takeaway polystyrene containers that the gulls dragged out to the middle of the road and was preventing cars passing; cars would pass slowly over it, dragging it a few more feet, then the gulls would attack it once the car had gone again.

They had a garden of lager bottles, lager tins, tampax boxes, polystyrene containers and some old chip papers. We got 1/4 of The Sun that blew over the fence.

The front drive's also a 'whirlwind' zone, so all this stuff was continually blowing round in circles until 3pm.

silvercar

sjaypink wrote: »

I thought you were in Scotland? ...And thought michaels wasn't?!

Sky darkened about 5pm yesterday, and we had thunder & lightening from about 7-9pm. Dry today but very windy and not too bright.

I thought we were both in Hertfordshire, but maybe not given our different weather.

Never been to Scotland in my life, I'm ashamed to say!

Why can't I post pictures? Saved it to flickr but the picture doesn't show.

michaels

OK - the ground was vaguely damp this morning and the gutter was dripping so I guess it did rain overnight but it remains humid, overcast and very warm each time the sun glimpses through.

My day was a bit ruined by a Bentley Silver spur changing lane in to me coming out of the big Sains and driving off - I have reported it to the police but am now debating the insurance co as although the damage is probably about 400 for an insurance co fix it probably only knocks a couple of hundred of the value of the car, the excess is probably not much less than the £400 and I would sooner not report an accident as I am sure it impacts your premium even if it is non fault and no claim is made.

Does anyone know who drives a black or midnight blue Bentley reg 811 bef?

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Does anyone know who drives a black or midnight blue Bentley reg 811 bef?

Sorry, I was excited to see you! Then panicked.



Yesterday I was in "the narrow lanes" and tucked up behind a mini bus (bigger than me, so if I stay tucked up behind him everybody else will mostly give way). Then he met a roller coming the other way - big wide ferker it was. I think the roller must have scraped his whole nearside on the rocks sticking out of the side of the road, he didn't look too happy.

I was guilt free.... I was tucked up behind the minibus, so it was those two drivers making the decisions about whether there was room and who should give way.

I gave the RR driver a jaunty little "thank you" wave as I swanned past.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just tried to see if they've put the fares info online yet, they haven't... but I have now discovered that there is a One Day Ticket for £7, giving unlimited journeys.... although it's limited by how far you could travel and how useful that'd be. I worked out once that to go from here to Land's End on the bus would mean staying on that bus upon arrival as that was the last bus back too.

There's another, that's unlimited travel for one day within the town boundary, which isn't big, costing £3.45 or £2.30 for a child. Mostly it's about a mile to the left and right of where I'm sitting now.... so as much use as a chocolate teapot.

You know, it's the same here. You can't get the price off the website. I also found the price of a day saver, which doesn't go as far as here so that's useless.

I went to the local newspaper's facebook page and asked there.
Apparantly it's 6 quid return.

sjay, I know exactly - we got a bus two years ago for a few stops in Birmingham City Centre and we didn't have enough cash! (I think we had about £3 on us) The bus driver was really sweet though and let us ride up front for free

I'm getting the bus because the last train home goes at 8.45pm and the train station is miles away anyway. It's fair to say that even semi-rural public transport is a mess. I think the bus is getting cut too so you can't get home late. We can catch the bus from round the corner into the City but the last bus back terminates before our house so it's a two mile walk then - I don't mind that, I just need sensible shoes!

H wants to drive now but it's an adventure isn't it.

sjaypink

michaels wrote: »

Does anyone know who drives a black or midnight blue Bentley reg 811 bef?

Hmm, lets rack our brains.....

New money?

....Footballer (driving style)?

What football clubs are near you?

...what time was it? - championship had early kick off....

we can probably rule out League 1 & 2.

initials BEF..... I'll get back to you. We'll get the little fucker