It also shows how close the garage is the the back of the buses is is why drivers, including me hit the damn thing from time to time. Little story from a school run I did today, my last school run for 6 weeks. Most schools round here have finished for the summer holidays so no more school runs till September; except that is Paignton Community College which is for some strange reason still open. So I pull up at the stop and there are the usual crowd of about 20 of the little darlings waiting to push, shove, bite, gouge, kick, scream and perform any other unmentionable kind of mayhem in order to be first on the bus. There are also two tourist, dad pushing a baby buggy and mum holding on to a 2 year old toddler. They had just spent an enjoyable few hours at the excellent Paignton Zoo (as seen on TV) (Some years ago now but on TV all the same). Now anyone who has stood at a bus stop with 20 or more school children can guess what happened as I pulled up and opened the doors, Mum, dad, toddler and buggy get trampled to death in the stampede. No, sorry, wrong. These wonderful children from PAIGNTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE stood back and carefully waited for the family, who were German tourist to board the bus before they got on. Isn't that nice, I hope those children have a really nice summer holiday.
The weather has been bad down here, it rained all day, in fact rain has been the main item on the agenda for weeks now but we have been lucky compared with people a little further north. Click here for the BBC news to see how bad the flooding has been in other parts of the country. Is this how Global Warming works, lots of rain, or is it just one of those things that happens from time to time and is nothing to do with GW.
An other news item that came to my attention, also on the BBC.
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