When I first started taking photos again, I used to run round like an idiot getting 'rare workings' photographed or even buses on their first days in service. Nowadays I'm much more relaxed about it, and just travel where I want to travel. I'll spend a bit of time there photographing and simply seeing what comes along.
(11 Sep 2015, 11:40 am)MurdnunoC But what, do you feel, goes wrong?
Just as you have you right to take photographs of buses in public places, the public also have the same right to walk in front of any shot you're attempting to take. I get the impression you seem to take it personally but, more often than not, people are indifferent to what you are doing and probably don't notice you with your camera out.
You also seemingly get upset when things go to 'plan' - nothing peculiar about that as most of us do. But, in the context of your hobby, is there any need to plan? Why don't you just go with the flow instead? Get whichever bus happens to be in there instead of planning to get this specific bus at this specific time to get that specific shot. When plans go wrong, you get upset. But if you don't have a plan there's nothing to really get upset about and, you never know, something unexpected may show to photograph instead.
Don't take your hobby too seriously is what, I think, I'm trying to say.
(11 Sep 2015, 11:42 am)aureolin When I first started taking photos again, I used to run round like an idiot getting 'rare workings' photographed or even buses on their first days in service. Nowadays I'm much more relaxed about it, and just travel where I want to travel. I'll spend a bit of time there photographing and simply seeing what comes along.
(11 Sep 2015, 11:40 am)MurdnunoC But what, do you feel, goes wrong?
Just as you have you right to take photographs of buses in public places, the public also have the same right to walk in front of any shot you're attempting to take. I get the impression you seem to take it personally but, more often than not, people are indifferent to what you are doing and probably don't notice you with your camera out.
You also seemingly get upset when things go to 'plan' - nothing peculiar about that as most of us do. But, in the context of your hobby, is there any need to plan? Why don't you just go with the flow instead? Get whichever bus happens to be in there instead of planning to get this specific bus at this specific time to get that specific shot. When plans go wrong, you get upset. But if you don't have a plan there's nothing to really get upset about and, you never know, something unexpected may show to photograph instead.
Don't take your hobby too seriously is what, I think, I'm trying to say.
(11 Sep 2015, 11:42 am)aureolin When I first started taking photos again, I used to run round like an idiot getting 'rare workings' photographed or even buses on their first days in service. Nowadays I'm much more relaxed about it, and just travel where I want to travel. I'll spend a bit of time there photographing and simply seeing what comes along.
On my bus to tuition earlier, I asked for a "Child Return to the bus station", he said £1.10... correct price...
The ticket printed... "Adult Single"!? I asked if that was a Child Return, he sharply replied "Are you seriously a child? Kids fares are for under 14s only. You're having that fare or you can get off".
If I wasn't in a rush, I would have got off.
(11 Sep 2015, 2:37 pm)GX03 SVC On my bus to tuition earlier, I asked for a "Child Return to the bus station", he said £1.10... correct price...
The ticket printed... "Adult Single"!? I asked if that was a Child Return, he sharply replied "Are you seriously a child? Kids fares are for under 14s only. You're having that fare or you can get off".
If I wasn't in a rush, I would have got off.
(11 Sep 2015, 2:37 pm)GX03 SVC On my bus to tuition earlier, I asked for a "Child Return to the bus station", he said £1.10... correct price...
The ticket printed... "Adult Single"!? I asked if that was a Child Return, he sharply replied "Are you seriously a child? Kids fares are for under 14s only. You're having that fare or you can get off".
If I wasn't in a rush, I would have got off.
(11 Sep 2015, 2:37 pm)GX03 SVC On my bus to tuition earlier, I asked for a "Child Return to the bus station", he said £1.10... correct price...
The ticket printed... "Adult Single"!? I asked if that was a Child Return, he sharply replied "Are you seriously a child? Kids fares are for under 14s only. You're having that fare or you can get off".
If I wasn't in a rush, I would have got off.
(11 Sep 2015, 2:37 pm)GX03 SVC On my bus to tuition earlier, I asked for a "Child Return to the bus station", he said £1.10... correct price...
The ticket printed... "Adult Single"!? I asked if that was a Child Return, he sharply replied "Are you seriously a child? Kids fares are for under 14s only. You're having that fare or you can get off".
If I wasn't in a rush, I would have got off.
(11 Sep 2015, 10:20 pm)BusLoverMum Aren't you in CLS?
If so, you probably need one of these. I'm going to apply for one for Big'un in the next year as it won't be long before he's taller than me
http://www.durham.gov.uk/article/1983/Ap...s-bus-card
(11 Sep 2015, 10:20 pm)BusLoverMum Aren't you in CLS?
If so, you probably need one of these. I'm going to apply for one for Big'un in the next year as it won't be long before he's taller than me
http://www.durham.gov.uk/article/1983/Ap...s-bus-card
(11 Sep 2015, 10:36 pm)aureolin It annoys me so much that Durham only support 'Under 14s', and even at that it's only half fare. You'd think that people suddenly became independent at the age of 14!
One of the reasons it annoys me so much, is that at the same time, they insist in going over and above with the ENCTS scheme outside of the window. Hopefuilly with NECA and when the levy comes in, it'll result in the 90p single / CAT scheme being extended across the county, and stop this extortion that goes on at the moment.
(11 Sep 2015, 10:36 pm)aureolin It annoys me so much that Durham only support 'Under 14s', and even at that it's only half fare. You'd think that people suddenly became independent at the age of 14!
One of the reasons it annoys me so much, is that at the same time, they insist in going over and above with the ENCTS scheme outside of the window. Hopefuilly with NECA and when the levy comes in, it'll result in the 90p single / CAT scheme being extended across the county, and stop this extortion that goes on at the moment.
(11 Sep 2015, 10:51 pm)BusLoverMum It annoys me, too. There are much fanfared student passes, but only if you're in one of the "zones". We live outside all the zones. We plan to move into one of the zones when littl'un finishes primary school, but we're tied, at the moment.
(11 Sep 2015, 10:51 pm)BusLoverMum It annoys me, too. There are much fanfared student passes, but only if you're in one of the "zones". We live outside all the zones. We plan to move into one of the zones when littl'un finishes primary school, but we're tied, at the moment.
(11 Sep 2015, 10:20 pm)BusLoverMum Aren't you in CLS?
If so, you probably need one of these. I'm going to apply for one for Big'un in the next year as it won't be long before he's taller than me
http://www.durham.gov.uk/article/1983/Ap...s-bus-card
(11 Sep 2015, 10:20 pm)BusLoverMum Aren't you in CLS?
If so, you probably need one of these. I'm going to apply for one for Big'un in the next year as it won't be long before he's taller than me
http://www.durham.gov.uk/article/1983/Ap...s-bus-card
(11 Sep 2015, 10:55 pm)aureolin Arriva's Durham zones are strange like that. For my Durham District ticket, I can get in and out of Durham, to Bishop Auckland, and also to Newcastle/Metrocentre on X12/X24. Someone who lives 5/6 mile from Durham in a slightly different direction, and they need a county wide pass. I realise that the boundaries need to be drawn somewhere, but I do feel there could be a little more logic shown.
(11 Sep 2015, 10:55 pm)aureolin Arriva's Durham zones are strange like that. For my Durham District ticket, I can get in and out of Durham, to Bishop Auckland, and also to Newcastle/Metrocentre on X12/X24. Someone who lives 5/6 mile from Durham in a slightly different direction, and they need a county wide pass. I realise that the boundaries need to be drawn somewhere, but I do feel there could be a little more logic shown.
(12 Sep 2015, 12:32 pm)Dan So it begins...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/604...now-freeze
(12 Sep 2015, 12:32 pm)Dan So it begins...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/604...now-freeze
(12 Sep 2015, 12:32 pm)Dan So it begins...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/604...now-freeze
(12 Sep 2015, 12:34 pm)Michael Oh no, months of doom and gloom once again!
Also -
Everything is annoying me at the min!
(12 Sep 2015, 12:32 pm)Dan So it begins...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/604...now-freeze
(12 Sep 2015, 12:34 pm)Michael Oh no, months of doom and gloom once again!
Also -
Everything is annoying me at the min!
(12 Sep 2015, 12:41 pm)MurdnunoC But it is The Express that's reporting this...
Don't really follow weather stories but are any other papers reporting this 'Shock Weather'?
The Express has about as much credibility as The Daily Sport.