TWO MARK BUS TICKS HALIFAX AND BRADFORD

Pleasant evening at The Crown, chatted with John and Tabatha who now live at the end of our road, great to have our 'local' back. An earlyish start this morning for myself, a very quiet drive to Halifax, no hold ups on the motorway just the M60 roadworks with 50mph limit but never stopped, best run out for yonks. I managed to get all the rush hours services including many on school runs, friendly drivers as ever Walsh's are always very enthusiastic but First joined the fun thanks to the large proportion of Asian drivers who welcome the camera and even stop to pose. The only negative, I was going to have a coffee and cake on arrival at Costa Coffee, really horrible people, gone back to having 'options' so you can no longer just ask for a medium latte to have in with a Bakewell, no it's twenty questions once more and as I couldn't understand a word the girl said she got a right strop on so departed and TA review to follow. We really need an upmarket coffee chain, the market is wide open plenty of low end stuff from Greggs to Startrek etc.

After Halifax it was but a short run to Bradford. It had rained over the tops fist thing but dried up before I reached Haifax, the lighting remained spot on for easy filming until I'd finished at Halifax. A little low level hassle from Asian kids, once very polite but now starting to get a nuisance. How come they are wandering around in the middle of the day. Masses of buses around Bradford both at the bus station, filmed both sides and to a lesser extent down nearer the town. The buses looked really shabby, the stuff from Huddersfield, all First and Keighley, nothing shines other than the nearly new ones which are thin on the ground. I wonder how long First is going to survive, only in Cornwall have I seen any investment for the future. So the slide show features Halifax, early this morning. Bradford and Halifax DVDs ready tonight will load to shop plus digital download if time permits. Must get recently filed photos to Smugmug pages, if I only had time...