Blog Directory : Listing Details
Bus Driving details
Listing ID: 841
Title: Bus Driving
Description: David drives a Number 12 Bus from Newton Abbot, through Torquay and Paignton and on to Brixham.
Category: Recreation : Automotive
Owner:
listed on: June 02, 2008 05:51:02 PM
Number Hits: 3 times
Recent Posts:
| Torbay's Grand Rock Walk Exhibition - Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:16:00 +0000 |
Torbay Council recently tried to whip up a little interest and excitement in Rock Walk by holding an Exhibition. For a couple of days it was on show in the Princess Theatre which is in the firing line if any 20 tonne rocks roll down the cliff. Then it was moved to the Library in Lymington Rd which is in a much safer place. Well this is it. The Exhibition, not the library. Not very exciting is it? The top bit has a few photos of Rock Walk as it was and the bottom bit shows an impression of what it will look like when it is finished. The work is expected to cost over a million quid so economies have to be taken where ever possible. The board on the right with the coloured bits of paper are for viewers, if the can contain their excitement, to express their comments, make suggestions and ask questions. I even went so far as to stick a little coloured sticker myself. There is no sign of an existing foot path (see above) in the new plans and I asked why not. In the new plans there only seems to be one path up then the same path down. Surely we need two paths otherwise there could just possibly a bit of a bottleneck in busy times. And it's more interesting having more than one pathway.Mind who the planers may just see my question, realise they have missed out a vital part of the redevelopment and write me a nice letter thanking me. It could also add thousands of pounds to the cost. |
| Not in a Million Years - Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:49:00 +0000 |
| "OK, So what exactly is this job?" "It's dead easy really, all you have to do is walk around Torquay." "That's it, just walk around Torquay?" "Yes." "Nothing else?" "Well you have to hand out balloons." "Oh, that doesn't seem too bad." "There is the other bit." "What other bit?" "Well the balloons are advertising the Mariner pub." "So?" "Well mariners are famous for something" "Like sailing the Seven Seas? I should point out I get seasick walking through a deep puddle." "No, nothing to do with sailing." Slight pause. "Nor being sick." "Drinking large amounts of Rum?" "Don't be silly. I said it was nothing to do with being sick." "Not rum, Oh God, not rum so it must be sodomy and the lash." (From Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, a CD by the Pogues) "Don't be silly. We'd never get away with that in Torquay." Slight pause. "Not in broad daylight anyway." Slightly longer pause. "Don't fancy a bit of overtime later this evening? No. OK. Sorry I asked." "Woman in every port, that sort of thing?" "No." "Give me a clue or we'll be here all day." "What do mariners have on their shoulders?" "Epaulets, if they're the captain mariner." Long sigh, "Parrots." An emphatic shake of head. "I'm not walking round with a parrot on my shoulder. They bite your ear and crap all over you." "You don't have too walk round with a parrot on your shoulder." "What then?" Some people can be slow on the up take some times.  Christmas comes but once a year, but after that there is the Easter Bunny to look forward to. |
| Kingskerswell Bypass, In Your Dreams. - Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:52:00 +0000 |
 The Kingskerswell Bypass has been in the "sometime in the next few years or so" stage for over ten years now. There were hopes that Government money was going to be found to fast track it so we could expect a road link with the rest of the country some time this century. However under plans announced today it would seen we have once again lost out. The bypass isn't being fast tracked after all. Oh, it's still going to be build just as soon as the money can be found but the Labour Government have asked us down here in Devon not to hold our breath. Could it be some sort of political bias rearing it's ugly head. Remember round here we have a Lib Dem MP, the South West tends towards Lib Dem MPs, and if, as seems likely, we change our MP at the next election he will almost cirtainly be a Tory MP. So no marginal Labour seats round here for the Government to worry about so no fast track bypass round here either. Hands up those who don't see a connection. You there, at the back. The one without your hand up. Your name isn't Gorden Brown is it? The photo shows the road on a quiet day, the traffic is usually stationary on both sides of the road. By the time we get the money to build the bypass global warming will have pushed sea level up so high Torbay will be much bigger and Torquay, Paignton and Brixham will be largely underwater so there will no point in building the bloody thing anyway. |