LEEDS AND HUDDERSFIELD BUS FILM COMPLETED

I seemed to dodge most of the problems today. I got up at 6.30, Mandy went swimming at the club at Cranage Hall while I headed up the M6, I'd only got to the first junction at Lymm, there were flames flicking up into the still dark sky. There was a lorry pulled hard onto the shoulder and the fire brigade had just arrived. As I was so close to the incident I managed to get past before they shut the road, it wasn't helped as it was at the point where all the Lymm Poplar services traffic plus Stobarts UK road base all pour onto the motorway. Anyway north of this traffic was all but absent until I got on to the M60/M62, not too bad to the west of the Pennines but over in Yorkshire the time was rocketing by, there had been a problem on a nearby A road and traffic was worse than normal but eventually I got onto the ring road and into the city right where i wanted to be and parked up in the expensive but very convenient Victoria centre car park. It's next to the bus station, not that the facility is itself useful, in fact up there with Slough as useless to the enthusiast unless you are just ticking of numbers.

The lift in the car park said Lewes was on the 6th floor so up I went, so where is the cafe, on the third floor, oh so I've got to go back down, oh no it's a floor up. Weird,  weird that's what modern Britain is. A cafe where they couldn't plan a piss up in a brewery and nowhere to put the card machine other than on a ribbed counter where it bobbles about, no contact payment- it's almost Victorian in concept as well as name and whoever came up with the lift numbering wants shooting.Thankfully the buses were plain sailing, really friendly drivers, lots of new stuff plus three of First heritage liveried fleet. The light was spot on, I did so well I just kept going until lunch time, well over the hour of film. The only tramps or winos I saw were at the post office other than than Leeds outshone both Birmingham and Liverpool, I suppose it's day had to come someday. Then it was on to Huddersfield, brightish with light cloud, just right. Only minus were millions of teenagers wandering around, they seemed English - what were they, who were they - I didn't know there were that many young people alive in the UK. Needless to say tonights slides are from Leeds, tomorrow grounded due to very high winds. Thursday looks on go albeit possibility of snow which could almost be a positive.