All Aboard

Bus Driving in Milton Keynes and other stuff

Snowy day today/Last Night!!
All buses today were keeping well away from estate roads, and as a result there was very few passengers about. Reports that MK Council has run out/is close to running out of grit has meant that none of the estates have been gritted tonight, So all the roads are frozen solid [...]

….I need your help!!
I need people that are local to MK to let me know of ANY building projects going on within the Town that you know of please, For a new website I’m working on.
It can be anything from a new block of flats to the remodelling of a roundabout, I just need to [...]

Well the GPS tracking thing seemed to work quite well today.
According to the data, Between 11:08 and 18:38 I traveled 38.3 Miles, at an average speed of 5mph (!!!), and my Max Speed at any one time was 41mph. The average speed might be a bit inaccurate as there were two one hour breaks [...]

A new experiment for tomorrow (Monday).. If you can see the map below then you should be able to follow me around my shift (or as long as my iPhone battery lasts). This map uses GPS tracking to locate where I am.
Be interesting to see what people make of it

You can also goto the direct [...]

Well as you know me and CowFacedRatBag from this blog have been out n about in Milton Keynes today, Faffing about with cameras, Mooching about and taking the piss out of people
If you wanna see some of the results of today then click the link below!

picasaweb.google.co.uk/AllAboardBlog/MKVisit210209#

Mmmmmmmmm…..(The Hot Chocolate, Not CowFacedRatBag)

Just testing to see if my Mini PC can get a signal, This is CowFacedRatBag in the woods…..

Well, I think it’s time to have another go at the ARRIVA Photo Competition, I could do with the winners prize of £300 for a new camera lens I want. It’s a toss up out of these 4 pictures…. What do you think?

I’ve seen the latest in Bus Heating technology this week in one of our buses….

 
 
 
Someones been complaining that there isn’t enough pictures of me on here (God knows why!) so here’s one of me & Mrs C freezing our bits off on an open top bus in London last week…
 

Quite possibly the most boring video you’ll find on Youtube, Bits of my Sunday glued together into one video.. and No, I didn’t win anything….

 
Now into my third week at MK Metro, and it’s my first week out on my own without a trainer…. All going fine I think.
I’m still missing the friendlyness of [...]