Last December that nice Mr Blair sent me £200.00 so I would vote for him; sorry so I could keep warm. We decided the best way to keep warm was not to move from in front of the TV all winter. With so many repeats on the these days (as a TV watcher since 1953 I can affirm that nothing has changed in that department) we decided to spend the heating allowance on a DVD recorder so at least the choice of repeats would be our own. Switch on computer and ask Empire Direct to send us a DVD in return for heating allowance. Please don't tell DWP or they may want the £200 back. DVD arrived complete with Instruction Manual which I now know was first written in Japanese, translated into Apatche then into Latin, into French, into Urdu, into Spanish,into Glaswegian and finally into English. It wasn't all these translations that made impossiblele to follow; it was the fact that the person who wrote it in the first place had never even seen a DVD recorder. He worked as a chicken farmer in Kamogawa.
The arrival of the second DVD recorder meant we had to set it up once again. After looking at the instructions for several hours we decided that this time it might be better if we threw the book out the window and not the recorder. Any way the recorder works fine now and have just watched the 2nd episode of Big Red Bus which I missed on Thursday as I was working.
PS this years heating allowance has been put toward air fare to Australia; dont need too much heat there. Again please don't tell the DWP.
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My father was a bus driver, with the then Council owned Bristol Omnibus, I grew up around Winterstoke Bus Depot (now a retail Park in bristol. We lived right next to Hengrove park where Bristol holds its Annual Bus Show.
My Family in the early 20th century owned 2 of teh coach and wheelwrights companies tath formed Bristol Omnibus when it started as well...although we have no money from teh venture trickling down to us...unfortunately
So I am thouroughly enjoying the "Big Red Bus" Series....
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