ANOTHER TWO PROGRAMMES UNDER THE BELT AND WE ARE GOING OUT

doing battle with Amazon always seems to wake me up when I'm feeling tired, I think its the surge of adrenelin whioch kicks in  and you just want to throttle someone at the stupid help centre, I've had battles trying to upload stuff for years, for a couple of months it all went like clockwork after a guy in their Dublin centre got it sorted but now we seem to have gone back to square one again. Anyway we were up sharp but not too early and over parked up in Halifax by 8.45 , it was misty or cloudy really and quite chilly 16, it had been 19 when we left home and the temperature difference looked set to last all day. I see the Centreline has rebranded as the Yorkshire ripper or something like that, they still look pretty tacky even after a repaint, shame after the Halifax buses under Tony Blackman were such a colourful addition to the local scene. Thankfully other than chav talk and rubbish the drivers were all very friendly. I always think that Halifax architechture other than the Piece Hall is a hidden gem although thats probably wasted on the people there and certainly I can't imagine tourists ever landing there unless they are off route from a Mars shot. We did get breakfast at Marks in Halifax, there were a couple of notebook spotters at the bus station but its useless for photography compared with the much better locations in the town, Walsh's keep rolling on though, another friendly operator. Most First buses are now in the new livery, hard to believe really that any aren't but there are still a few.

The next stop was Bradford, we'll get to Keighley some time but Mandy can't abide the place although Bradford twice in a year is pushing my luck, the running day was a bit limited for Mandy as she spent the day in the underground bingo hall car park which used to be a bus depot under the interchange. All very friendly there as usual, happy friendly banter with the asian crews and all quite uplifting really although Mandy's take on the town couldn't be put into writing lest we wished for a month behind bars, shame with all the Scorttish stuff going on that English people are never going to be allowed to express themselves how the majority really feel. There wasn't that much new on the buses, really nothing new at all really and not even the odd heritage livery but I soon got the required coverage and we were winging our way back on cheapo Bradford petrol and as we crossed the Pennines the temperature rose 5 degrees and them settled back to 20 at Lower Peover. We continued on to the farm shop and stocked up on their ice cream and veg fresh from the farm. We are at Clonter opera friends evening tonight, just having a light dinner and then getting changed. I've downloaded the Yorkshire film and should have both programmes finished tomorrow. We are going to have a bit of a lazy Sunday and then next week its Showbus lets hope the weather holds out, seems a bit optomistic but its been a bitvh of a year at rallies other than the sunny Heaton Park!