As well as visiting Burton and Stafford the Weebly title for the blog worked first try, thats a red letter day for certain. Anyway lets get on my travels and yes it was a Staffordshire day, a bit on the sppur of the moment with reference to the weather forecast and it looked a good morning with light cloud and for once thats how it turned out. The traffic wasn't too awul, the closures and accidents on the motorway were out of the area I traveled in, they still took place though. Our roads in the village now all look like cart tracks with mud all over the place near building works and worse near the farms. We were up bright and early, it had been a fairly draining evening last night so I sl;ept well, it was good to have a relax with a couple of things I enjoy on telly. Burton didn't disappoint, Midlland Classic lifts this place into the bus enthusiast super league, as well as interesting well presented buses the drivers are always so friendly. It really didn't take that long to get over an hour of film and then I had a coffee in M&S before carrying on to Stafford, talk about the SATNAV finding tiny roads across country, their were highwaymen on one turnpike sand the ox carts were around every corner. Stafford after Burton ( why do I keep going there) was like watching very slow drying paint. I thin it's that my mind always goes back to the days when is was a thriving market town with plentiful bus services, now it a mess , dead hole and hardly any buses. One thing Burton did have was a new form of secret police, these are called civic enforcement something like East German STASI I think, there was this bloke with a Wyatt Earp badge and reckoned he was something else, had a forces badge on his jacket, thought he was some sort of special police - reported him on 101, perhaps he was just mentally disturbed! His picture is below. The slide show is of Midland Classic and Arriva/Trent this morning. Comments are closed.
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