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Having worked in the public service for a while. I am a firm believer that you could sack at least 30% of the work force and make no difference to the services offered. I am not talking about the front-line workers in our health services, emergency services, armed forces, transport etc. I am talking about the rapid proliferation of "administrators/managers" whose sole aim appears to come up with more ways of having the front-line staff do more reporting and data collecting thus spending less and less time on doing what actually matters. Political staff should be reduced in all levels of govern

Lincolnshire transport museum Hykeham open days 30 June 27 October free admission, refreshments available at reasonable cost also open Sundays 11.00 till 16.00 but no buses running then A few pics of what they have Plenty more on show than these few Rog

Funny day today........still by mesen....so being a bit bored thought i'd have a ''Rummage'' in the shed...... What a find and quite mysterious...Wooden box very heavy...full of LPs some going back more than 50 years....there must be about 100... Only recognised about half a dozen that were mine from way back..... Count Basie's Beatle bag...1966 The Last Dance....Motown...all 70s Sheena Easton...take my time.....1980.......God she was lovely....... Cliff....talk of the town....1980...... Can honestly say that all the others w

I don't have anyone on 'Ignore'. I like to hear what everyone has to say. I'm quite capable of ignoring content I find personally uninteresting etc., and perfectly capable of challenging OR ignoring views I find objectionable.

Years ago, when I worked at 24 Low Pavement, some of us grew tomato plants in pots placed in front of the large, Georgian windows and overlooking the garden at the rear. They did well there as they got lots of sunlight. At lunchtimes, fresh tomatoes, straight from the plants tasted very good. There is nothing to compare with the taste and smell of homegrown tomatoes.

I don't have a greenhouse or a shed, but have managed to successfully start off some tomato seeds that I've had wrapped up for nearly two years. As it's my first time, I'm looking to Mrs.B to guide me along. I believe they may be some type of Beefsteak toms. Edit. Should'nt be on this thread I know, but who's watching.

And then operating on arms and legs, all before 09.00. Wonder what he does in his spare time. That's when he's not rebuilding buses or cycling all over the countryside.

It’s bitterly cold here with the addition of the wind chill. I’ve got loads of outdoor work to do but can’t fire myself up to face the elements. No doubt Rog is outside, stripped to the waist, braving the Lincolnshire gales and digging his garden! Good on yer Rog!

£49 buys a USB player and facilitates recording on to discs or pen drive you can play in the car. No doubt Col will be along soon and sell you one for the price of a small bungalow you can only play under armed guard.

Outside today I've been wearing a heavy jacket which I hadn't expected to use again until next winter.

It’s probably the old wartime airfield at Sandtoff. I flew into there many years ago. They did a good Yorkshire fry up!

Ah Garlic coffee! We had a subsidiary company in Dublin and one of the directors claimed that his cousin, who worked at the Shelbourne hotel, was the inventor. I thought it was a load of Blarney! Back in the day the Riverside flats were the upmarket place to live. Now they look like a concrete prison block.

We used to go to the Chateau regularly. One night I paused my meal to play the drums as a member of the group hadn’t turned up. I’m not a trained drummer but can turn my hand to most things in an emergency!

Rog, let us know about open days there might be a few interested on here.

As an aside wasn't the Chateau, a Berni Inn on Wilford Rd. In all the years of going to Nottingham I never travelled on a South Notts or a WBUDC bus. NCT Trent, Barton. MGO, Gash's but never those two.

Didn't know Camms had one of those, good bit of info there Marrowman, still waiting to get over to Ruddington heritage place to see some of their vehicles, hopefully this summer, I live not far from the Lincolnshire transport heritage museum and that's worth a visit, sometimes having open days and free bus rides in their vintage buses Rog

Camms also used to have a double decker with the upstairs side walkway. I used to travel to school on it when they ran special school busses from Broxtowe Lane to my school, High Pavement. I don't know what make of bus it was though, sorry!

Some Clifton services went over Clifton Bridge, and others went over Trent Bridge. The latter route included going along Wilford Lane which had a low railway bridge. All the operators (NCT, South Notts, WBUDC) had low-bridge buses to cope with that bridge. That's how I had direct experience of those long seats and side gangway.

Yes it was the, the upstairs side walkway protruded into the lower deck and many a passenger bumped their heads when standing up to get off the bus. The Midland General B8 from Mansfield to Nottingham via everyone's back garden was often an AEC Regent III RLH (Regent Low Height) and Barton Transport had a very special Dennis Loline II which was the lowest ever for a fully enclosed double deck bus in the UK

No, I didn't look inside it - I just took the pictures! If it had the long seats upstairs I assume it is a lowbridge bus.

That is the one glaring fault on that model that really annoys me is the bonnet top. It should be maroon not cream.