MANSFIELD AND CHESTERFIELD FULL OF NEW LIVERY BUSES

The weather wasn't looking promising with clear blue sky over Mansfield but I had a feeling it could cloud over so I had a wander around and popped into M&S , no cafe though but got some marzipan balls and retreated back to the car. I was going to park on the new shopping centre, sort of out of town but in the middle, it is the site of the old bus station. There was a Costa which I didn't fancy, these days the Costa, Startrek and Nero more or less throw your drink at you and stuff any food in a bag, you end up with an arm full and can't carry it. I think I'm feeling a boycott coming on,  how I wish there were decent coffee shops around instead of the cess pits we have have. I couldn't have parked my car there as the brand new parking payment machines were 100% super saturated with moisture so you could see nothing inside, I used the messy old waste site car park above the bus station. It did cloud over eventually ad that got me through Mansfield, quite a lot of new branding buses about but nowhere as near as Chesterfield where Tracky seems to be getting a new suite of clothes very quickly. When it was lunch time about a thousand yobs came charging into the town, en masse, not a hint of social distancing, some were throwing projectiles, I image filed down coins and other crowded around the buses trying to make progress and brought them to a standstill, I think I could read the drivers minds as to what they would have liked to have done. No idea where they came from but a cage would be too good for them - I'm sure that midday some establishment has still got nominal control over the behaviour.

I've now edited the Cambridge film and will try and get a clip on Youtube before we walk down the pub for our Friday night mingle, really it isn't an issue, we usually end up with landlady Janet and any other randoms by 9pm have meandered off. I'll leave you with Mansfield then we can have a Chesterfield bus feast tomorrow.