I was giving the car a bit fuel earlier on and chatting to the woman behind the counter.

There were a load of newspapers on the counter and I noticed the headline of a certain paper. It was referring to the news of charges against ex Police Officers based in South Yorkshire.

It turns out, that they're giving 'that' paper away today. I was polite to the member of staff when she offered me a copy. 

After the headlines at the time and the accusations made - to give a paper away free of charge on a day when they're covering the story again (all be it with a different agenda) - nah, not for me.

That's pretty sick

The fact it's peeing down, which meant I couldn't be arsed to go out getting soaked whilst riding about on buses all day.

The fact it's peeing down, which meant I couldn't be arsed to go out getting soaked whilst riding about on buses all day.

You need to avoid them open topped ones.

Been raining since yesterday in the Lakes, we still went out too Windermere and Ambleside though.

Been raining since yesterday in the Lakes, we still went out too Windermere and Ambleside though.

it's the law to rain in the Lakes.

it's the law to rain in the Lakes.

Stopped now but for how long? Haha


Don't mind rain at all though

You need to avoid them open topped ones.

And the Waggonway Scania's

Stopped now but for how long? Haha


Don't mind rain at all though

I would actually quite like to go to the lakes when the weather is really wet one day and get some bus photos in the rain as I quite like seeing photos of buses in the rain, although I ain't the biggest fan of being out in that weather.

Doing a lakes bus outing next week then probably again the following week providing the Volvo's are in service on the 599.

I am currently not having fun on the train to Middlesbrough, primary school trip on board and to make matters even worse, got some fully grown adults who are even more loud and annoying than the children, having Twinkle Twinkle Little Star shouted right in your ears by a bloke with a loud voice has certainly given me a terrible headache, ears will probably start bleeding next!

Had Sky Q installed in my new flat on Sunday and asked the engineer if I needed to be in yesterday (5/7/17) and they said I didn’t need to be in for the broadband and phone line activation which was due to come on yesterday, I then get up yesterday morning and have a message from BT Openreach to say I was not in when they called at 8am. I had no notification that they would be coming to the flat as even my order tracking on Sky’s website said I did not need to be in when it was activated, so have put in a complaint to get them to come out as quickly as possible as I am due to move on Saturday and will not move until the broadband and phone line have been activated. They have put it down as a priority so hopefully it will be sorted by Saturday.


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If I'm going to pick one solitary thing out of the blanket term of EVERYTHING, it has to be the fact that I have spent over half an hour on the phone and scouring the web, trying to track down a copy of an old marriage certificate and I am not a single step closer to obtaining it. I've ended up filling in a web form email and from experience, web form emails just disappear into the ether never to be found again.

Just one more bit of evidence that I should never have married the t...

Yesterday went to get tyres on my car repaired / replaced.

Went to go out in car this morning to find that one of the replaced tyres (rear driver side) had decided to deflate.

Headed to tyre place and nearly had a berk in a merc crash into me at A19 / Tynemouth Rd roundabout when they decided they didn't have to obey the give way to the right rule.

Get to tyre place and discovered that the sealent wasn't properly applied to rim, but they sorted out free of charge.

Go pick up wor lass, do a few errands for her, then head to Saltmeadows to see if anything was worth photoing. There was but due to roadworks I couldn't get parked and all the parking bays around the S bend were full.

Ended up spending most the afternoon driving around aimlessly. Did however manage to get a photo of Arriva Tempo 1311.

Headed to Grangetown in Sunderland to get some Black Cats to find that I was too late to get decent shots as the sun had moved too far around.

Decided to head to South Shields, then as I was going around a roundabout in Hendon, a wire /cable wallgrab punctured my tyre (The Driver Side Rear again). Although the tyre didn't lose it's air, the thing stuck out so much I would have been an idiot to drive it, so it was into the sports centre car park to change my tyre (fortunatley I had sorted my spare yesterday too).

More aimless driving about, and in hindsight thinking I'm pretty bored of the local bus scene at the minute.

Currently stuck on 6140 as the X12 was running 6 minutes early.

Checking the app, it's now ten minutes early into Gateshead!

Openreach were supposed to come to my flat this morning to set up my fibre broadband and didn’t turn up and also British Gas were supposed to come this afternoon to install smart meters and never turned up, have rearranged with Sky for Openreach to come on Tuesday so they better come and will have to contact British Gas to ask why they didn’t show up so wasted an entire day for nothing as I was gonna go to Ashington for the X21/X22 launch in between appointments


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Openreach were supposed to come to my flat this morning to set up my fibre broadband and didn’t turn up and also British Gas were supposed to come this afternoon to install smart meters and never turned up, have rearranged with Sky for Openreach to come on Tuesday so they better come and will have to contact British Gas to ask why they didn’t show up so wasted an entire day for nothing as I was gonna go to Ashington for the X21/X22 launch in between appointments


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Nothing worse.  EDF cancelled my smart meter appointment 2 hours after they were due to arrive, so I got £30 credit on my account - make sure you follow it up and get some money credited onto your account.

Booked 20th August off a few months back with the intention of going to a bus event. Just discovered they've put me into work a shift without even phoning me or texting me to tell me. I found out by going onto my rota thing online to find that it had changed.

Openreach supposed to come this morning to activate my broadband and phone and yet again haven’t turned up so been on phone to SkyHelpTeam to try to sort it out, got up at 6am as well as I had stuff to bring to the flat and gonna probably have to take some of if to my mams house. Getting rather sick of bringing my TV back and forwards now.


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Pee ignorant old couple attempted to shove their way past me as I was about to board the Scania / E400 demonstrator on the X24 in Sunderland, when I did set foot on the bus the woman was shoving past me from behind so they could get the front seats upstairs, a friend said the same happened to them in Newcastle a few hours later, I asked them if it was a woman in a red coat and sure enough the answer was yes, although he managed to stop them getting the front seats on his journey. Dare bet there would be absolute hell on if I did what they did [emoji19]

Hope they try this with the wrong person and they get slaughtered for it, especially as I am pig sick of old people attempting this with me and have had some claiming that I have pushed in a queue when I haven't.

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None enthusiasts at Hexham getting in the way when Flying Scotsman passed through standing right on the edge of the platform blocking the view, also the other half was on the footbridge getting a video and some pensioner shoves her out of the way and pushes in when she was recording a video for me.


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None enthusiasts at Hexham getting in the way when Flying Scotsman passed through standing right on the edge of the platform blocking the view, also the other half was on the footbridge getting a video and some pensioner shoves her out of the way and pushes in when she was recording a video for me.


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I know its annoying but isn't a train station, a public place and not just for ethusiasts?

I know its annoying but isn't a train station, a public place and not just for ethusiasts?

All of them were waiting for the Scotsman as they all left as soon as it passes through


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None enthusiasts at Hexham getting in the way when Flying Scotsman passed through standing right on the edge of the platform blocking the view, also the other half was on the footbridge getting a video and some pensioner shoves her out of the way and pushes in when she was recording a video for me.

In what sense they are deemed "non enthusiasts?" people waiting for are waiting for the normal timetabled train service from Hexham or these people who are only interested in Flying Scotsman? If in the case of the former, Hexham isn't that big of a station, so space will be limited and people have every right to stand wherever they want, whilst this can be annoying to enthusiasts there isn't much that can be done.

Personally I have little time for train spotters. I will not dignify them by using the term rail enthusiasts. On my way back from the stagecoach Carlisle open day I have the misfortune to sit opposite a train spotter. He coughed and cleared his throat repeatedly all the way back to newcastle.

This was my latest annoyance by those people.

Charles

None enthusiasts at Hexham getting in the way when Flying Scotsman passed through standing right on the edge of the platform blocking the view, also the other half was on the footbridge getting a video and some pensioner shoves her out of the way and pushes in when she was recording a video for me.


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If you saw me, you'd probably deem me a non-enthusiast (rather than the accidental enthusiast that I've become). I'm just a perfectly unremarkable looking middle aged woman. (People are often pretty surprised when they clock me playing Pokemon Go, then pass on their respect when they see that I'm level 34)

Personally I have little time for train spotters. I will not dignify them by using the term rail enthusiasts. On my way back from the stagecoach Carlisle open day I have the misfortune to sit opposite a train spotter. He coughed and cleared his throat repeatedly all the way back to newcastle.

This was my latest annoyance by those people.

Charles

Haha! it seems me and you were on the same train.

Me and another enthusiast sat a handful of rows down from him but decided 2 mins in to move somewhere else due to his bloody cough.

Haha! it seems me and you were on the same train.

Me and another enthusiast sat a handful of rows down from him but decided 2 mins in to move somewhere else due to his bloody cough.

A fair few of us were on that journey in fairness though, me being another one of them.

Personally I have little time for train spotters. I will not dignify them by using the term rail enthusiasts. On my way back from the stagecoach Carlisle open day I have the misfortune to sit opposite a train spotter. He coughed and cleared his throat repeatedly all the way back to newcastle.

This was my latest annoyance by those people.

Charles

Not every rail enthusiast is the same. Yes, there are the stereotypical ignorant old men but at the same time, there are some of the nicest people and most conscientious people you'll meet.
It isn't fair to tar everyone with the same brush.

Not every rail enthusiast is the same. Yes, there are the stereotypical ignorant old men but at the same time, there are some of the nicest people and most conscientious people you'll meet.
It isn't fair to tar everyone with the same brush.

I know which category you fall under, northern156! 

I know which category you fall under, northern156! 

Too right you do.

People spraying body spray on a bus.

It's bad enough when people stink of strong perfume or body sprays and even worse when it's a poor attempt to mask some obvious soap dodging, but spraying it in the confined space of a bus is just bleeding antisocial.

I did open the window on a group of students doing it on an icy cold day, once, after they set me off on a coughing fit, but I'm halfway back on a Streetlite and can't reach any Windows.

My eyes are burning.

People spraying body spray on a bus.

It's bad enough when people stink of strong perfume or body sprays and even worse when it's a poor attempt to mask some obvious soap dodging, but spraying it in the confined space of a bus is just bleeding antisocial.

I did open the window on a group of students doing it on an icy cold day, once, after they set me off on a coughing fit, but I'm halfway back on a Streetlite and can't reach any Windows.

My eyes are burning.

You cannot win can you - either that or some cracking BO