What a Lovely weekend.
I’m currently typing this from my Hotel room, Looking out the window at the sea. The beach is about 20ft from my room… It’s lovely!
Last night we were on the beach at 2am messing about with our cameras taking night shots of the Pier. I have lots of photos and videos to bore you all with later…. Now I’m off for an Ice Cream 🙂
Oh and I managed to get a few bus photos too 😛
Absolutely nothing exciting has happened this week, So I’m gonna blog about all the boring things that have happened instead.. I can tell you are all excited already.
I only broke down once this week which is quite amazing. One of my wipers flew off the side of the windscreen and got stuck. Arriva fitters are so great that this is the result 5 minutes after my wipers were fixed..
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvI-G7qwl_o
(Yes I’m that sad that I video’d it). Once the decent MK Metro fitters came out to it, It took 2 minutes to fix and was fine the rest of the day 🙂
I’ve been totally addicted to Facebook this past week, Updating my status nearly hourly and getting annoyed that my friends on there haven’t updated as regular as me. I really do wish o2 would do another special deal with free facebook access.
I’ve finally dumped my contract mobile with Three. I’m now on Pay & Go with o2 which I think is far better value for money, Plus it all helps in my quest to remove as many bills as possible from dropping through the door. I now only have the Capital One Credit Card, o2 Broadband and Sky TV Bills arriving, and I hope to have the Capital One gone within the next 3 weeks.
Now that I’ve left Three, What a surprise that my phone has now developed a fault! I can’t send Text messages on my Nokia N95, It just keeps saying “failed” almost instantly. I’ve googled the error message and it seems a few people have had this problem. The solution? Have the phone replaced under contract! Great!! So now I’m using this brick thing for the time being…..
It’s rather huge!! It’s was the 2nd 3G Video phone I’ve had and it seemed quite feature packed at the time.. How things change. LOL
I think I’m gonna change the style of my blog and do one big post each week rather than little bits here n there, What do you think?
The banking saga continues, (I can already hear Lynne moaning!). First blogged about in November 2006, I’ve given up with the Citibank Delta Card account and, seeing as my credit record is shot to pieces, I can’t get a “proper” bank account with anyone I’m just gonna stick with this Low-Life-Poor-Commoner Electron thing.
I’m on holiday this week so I would prepare yourself for an even more exciting post next time as I can’t see anything interesting happening.
This post is quite special… No I’m not shutting the blog down so you don’t have to read my dribble anymore or the fact that I’m giving away free money to the first 10 people to ring me up and say “Guitar Caravan” (which I’m not)… But the fact that this is the 100th post to this blog.
There has been more than 100 blog posts of course as this is the third blog I’ve had.
To celebrate this fantasical moment in history I’m going to post post some bits from previous moments in time….
(my comments about the posts are in bold)
First Posted: 02 January 2005 20:20:16 o’clock GMT
Not really sure what you can reply when you receive this picture in an email….
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First Posted: 13 January 2005 21:01:25 o’clock GMT
“Well, I had my interview at Metro, and was offered the job there n then. With the terms and conditions they were offering I would have been stupid not to accept.”
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I lasted 9 weeks at metro! I have ended up back at ARRIVA via a 2nd spell at Parcelforce LOL and now, Just to complete the Circle I’m being borrowed by MK Metro as they are short of staff at this very moment.
First Posted: 07 September 2006 23:12:32 o’clock BST
There is a Meeting for all the people I owe money to to vote if they accept my IVA and I can work at getting out of Debt, Thats what’s going round my mind at the moment…. All I can do is keep my fingers crossed.
Oh and some nice person has given me a cold over the weekend so I feel like Poo and its not doing my Psoriasis any good either :/
(I’ll stop moaning now)
Oh and I had this Text’d to me this morning.. I know some strange People!
This woman has now moved to Aussie Land. My IVA has been going fine ever since that day (apart from a minor blip) and I haven’t stopped moaning 😛
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First Posted: 30 September 2006 21:21:30 o’clock BST
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Still my all time fave video on youTube
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First Posted: 19 Oct 2006
“Instead I have found something called a Terrimundi, A Terrimundi is a little urn-shaped piece of pottery with a small slit in it to fit coins.
Well after my last post about my enormous phone bill I’ve decided to change networks (again). No matter how careful I am about calling and texting people it still seems to end up around the £100 a month mark.
Far too much!!! Looking for a cheap SIM Only deal or perhaps Pay As You Go again… Dunno.
Well it’s Easter Sunday and who would’ve thought we’d get snow! I took the opportunity to record the event this morning in the City Centre when most people were still asleep, and the fact that all the shops were shut today to get a few pics.
Lots of disruption at work at the moment with the start of the Bus Station refurb starting last Monday. (I’m writing a page about the refurb and the Aylesbury Transport Hub in general at www.arrivatheshires.co.uk). So far a few buses have had their stops moved into “The Tunnel” outside the station and the waiting room has been cut in half…. That’s it! That’s all they’ve done! It’s going to be a looooooong 17 weeks.
Oh yes, and this is a govelling apology to Jake for me being so miserable when he got on my bus the other week, Next time I see you I’ll just go for plain evil. 😉
Ah yes and this is a big ‘Shout oooout” to Mrs C. See told you I’d do it. 😛
It’s time for another round of the ARRIVA Employee Photo Competition and I’ve been out and about today with a couple of buses, I need to select 2 from the photos below and I want your help. Please leave a comment on the one(s) you like the best. Thanks 🙂
(Please note various poles and telegraph lines etc need to be removed before being entered)
Line100 – Chearsley
Line100 – dafs 1
Line100 – dafs 2
Line100 – Dafs 3
Multiple Red Route 9’s
Me and Mrs C entered some pictures into the ARRIVA Employee Photo Competition a couple of weeks ago.. Not fantastic as it started to rain before I had got the pics I wanted, But they ain’t bad, What do you think??
Can anyone tell me what’s wrong with the photo below?
An elderly lady got on the bus and got right up close, Started pointing her finger at me and said “YOU need to get YOUR bus sorted out, It’s not clear that you are going to Watford”
I got out the cab and had a look, Thinking the powered blind had changed itself, But no, Still showing 500 Watford on the front… No idea where she was looking
I think it’s time for a moan.
SERVICE:
This week has been one of those weeks where come against one problem after another.
First off on Wednesday I found myself coming up against selfish parking round what seemed like every corner…
The first one was a car parked right on the junction of a road I had to try and turn into….
This is the second car that’s just out of view in teh first pic, Notice how close I am to it LOL. I managed to miss it by a few inches…
SERVICE:
Then we have somebody who has parked alongside this bus stop, Which wouldn’t normally be a problem as the bus is only there a few seconds… But not this stop, This is the Starting point for the route, So is infact a Bus Stand as well, When I came round the corner to park up there I still had 4 minutes to go until it was time to leave, Cars beeping behind me, EVen thought I’m quite clearly inside my yellow box. In the end I had to drive on further down the road, around the corner to wait my time, Probably leaving some people behind. All because of selfish parking. 🙁
Then Yesterday, I was given one of our more “mature” vehicles to drive on one of our town services. Note the handily positioned wing mirror…
The arm would only fix in that position so there was no chance of moving it, So it really wasn’t of much use..
Same bus, But while driving it I became more and more aware of how many things are actually blocking my view to the outside world.. Surely all this “furniture” in the widscreen is a hazard?!
Anyway that’s my whinging over for today, (expect more tomorrow ;))
One ‘nice’ thing this week Is i’ve been given £50 for an old phone that was just lying round the house doing nothing.
Just a bit more towards me camera fund! 🙂
Oh this was a bit of a shock, NO Breakdowns this week yet!
I went on a little break last week to a place called California, Just outside Great Yarmouth. Was nice to have some time away from home and driving buses. The weather wasn’t too bad, Rained quite a bit at night, I was quite happy it wasn’t hot as I don’t like the sun much. Even though it was fairly mild all week I still managed to burn my face on first day we were there so have been in agony ever since lol.
California/Scratby Beach at Dusk – Wind Farm in distance
Been to a friends house today to do fiddle with their PC and became quite embarrassed after about an hour or so when I realised that my skin was flaking (My psoriasis has been a bit bad this week as i’m off the steroid cream) and there was loads of little white bits all over their carpet. With it being dark blue they showed up even more. I couldn’t wait to get out of there. 🙁 Gawd knows what they must’ve thought.
Apologies for not posting in a while.
I started back at Arriva a couple of weeks ago now and everything seems to be going okay. Had to go through all the training again which was a bit of a bore, and as I knew the trainer he picked on me for nearly every question.
After a few days in the classroom at Luton it was off to our depots. The first day there was a bit of piss taking by the drivers I knew there from the last time, But it only lasted a day. After that it felt like I hadn’t left the place, Which was nice but also scary at the same time. I jumped in a bus and went off to Oxford like I’d only been away from the job a few days!
So far this week I’ve managed to Breakdown three times in various buses.. I really did miss these extra “breaks” at Transdev 😉
One Broken down Bus – Luckily next to a shop 😉
Also, In the past 5 days I’ve been “spotted” while I’m at work and had my photograph taken..
On Saturday I got my new Co-op Bank debit card. Seemed to take them ages to open the account, well 13 days to be honest So I’m just being picky. Now we have the great task of moving all the Direct Debits about. Oh and since I’ve opened this account I’ve found out about a Credit Union for Transport Workers that offer a Current Account with a VISA Delta card and no credit check, Might apply. LOL…
…and I’m waiting on a cheque to clear that’s for my final wage at Transdev, Might buy myself a decent Digital SLR camera with it. 😀
Oh and I’m working on some marketing stuff for our depot, Will post more about it later.