Foot note to incident in Pgn

When I got to Goodrington (nice beach) two middle aged couples got of the bus. They had got on the bus in Paignton at the same time as the family group had got on and then got off. They were Asian, by the way, the family group that is, not the middle aged couples.
One of them had called me "Our kid" when he had paid their fares. As he got off he turned and said, "You can join our party anytime mate." I asked him what party was that, though I had a sinking feeling I knew. "The National Party"
Unfortunately he walked away without hearing my opinion on the National Party.
My apologies to any of the passengers still on the bus who did.

Computer Crash.

I usually report crashes involving buses and cars but as well as a bus crash (no one hurt, just a bit shocked) my computer crashed.

I have just got it back on line after several days starring at a blank screen, making phone calls, trying ideas, wanting to throw the bloody thing out the window, buying spare parts and getting to work in between all this that I am too tired to post right now.

Something tomorrow I promise.

Union Street and Big Yellow Truck

Two photos here, the top one is Union Street, the main shopping Street in Torquay.Work has been going on here for months with a view to stopping people parking in the road way and blocking it. But I have not seen a Parking Attendant down here for months so all that work has been a waste of time. Pritty white, green and red markings in the road mean nothing unless backed up by a £60.00 parking ticket.

The Yellow truck ( German by the way) seen here trying to take out the traffic lights at the Kings Drive then drove 500 metres down the road and did take out the lights at Belgrave Road. So watch out for big yellow German trucks trying to get their own back on Fawlty Towers.

Housing Shortage

HOMES CRISIS 20 July 2005
From our excellent local paper The Herald Express
"Westcountry people need a home. Politicians, business leaders and local authorities are warning that the shortage of affordable homes in the Westcountry is at crisis point.New figures reveal it will take at least 100 years at existing construction rates to clear the backlog of people needing a place of their own."


As you can see in the two photos I took, 38 studio appartments have been built in Regent Close in an attempt to over come this problem.
The top photo was taken on August 1 2004 and shows work just starting on the site at Regent Close.
This Photo was taken on August 2 2005 as the first people were just starting to move in.

That works out at a rate of one studio appartment every nine and a half days. At this rate this company will have build 3817 studio appartments in the next hundred years.That isn't bad going when you consider that it took 14 months to build the Empire State Building.

Parking on a Bus Stop

There is always some one who thinks it's OK to park on a bus stop. This bus stop lay by is on a busy two lane duel carrigeway and left me half in the lay by and half in the road way with passing motorist thinking I had parked there just to annoy them.

As if.