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At the end of the trip as far as we get on the Gunbarrel, the next day we walked ahead about four miles to where we found the tracks in the mud made by the vehicle we heard revving in the distance today. We had met him before, John Walters, see trip notes by Mary for 8th July. He had camped about 3 miles from us, the fire was still warm.
We walked up the track to see how bad the mud was and reached the point where the Land Rover ahead had been winching along in the wheel rusts dragging his diff and axle.
He had had pulled small trees sideways in the wet off to the side and laid a corduroy of sticks in the wheel ruts to progress…
We got a gallon of water from a puddle and walked back to the others. We had been away for three hours!
We could not get John's Land Cruiser close enough to pull us out, so we used our small 7 to one hand pulley with about seven people pulling.
As we got the Kombi spinning and reversing out the people pulling had to run 7 times faster than the Kombi until they fell over backward in the mud.
The cable tied across the front on the roo bar was a stay from a yacht given to us by Bob and Anne Crowe's dad for the trip. We later wrapped it around the bumper on #Smoky60Series where it travelled #roundaustraliawithspelio for the next twenty years…
But we were out and managed to find some firm ground off the track to camp and have dinner and a rest.
The end of our trip North of Giles to Alice Springs..
shortcut #roundAustraliawithSpelio
Rather sad looking piano in an abandoned house in Norfolk.
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Most of today has been spent making notes. Zoom meetings, phone calls, reading student work, planning for further socially distanced course delivery and drafting sections of a paper that I should have had finished *ages* ago. I'm still one for old-fashioned pen and paper. I'm also quite OCD when it comes to pens and notebooks. For example - in this particular work notebook I have to use a fountain pen with a specific blue ink. Yeah, I know. Weird.
First day out for these new beauties, featuring Harry Gration reading next stops, accompanied by an LED screen. There is also a 'countdown to departure' on the front. E.g. 10 mins, 5 mins...
First Day, Transdev Harrogate '36' Gemini 3 BL65 YYX 3624
Fleet: 3624
Reg: BL65 YYX
Operator: Transdev Harrogate
Route: 36 - Leeds, Harrogate
Depot: Starbeck
Type: Wright Gemini 3/ Volvo B5TL
Location: Leeds Bus Station
Notes: New to H&D 2016, first day in Service 24/01/16. Free Wi-FI, 2+1 seating upstairs and USB Charging Points.
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A 10.3-metre, single-door Leyland National of Cynon Valley District Council, seen on Friday 29th December 1978. The bus had been new earlier in the year and is seen in Aberdare. Cynon Valley was, of course, the descendant of the town's UDC operation; I believe it was eventually absorbed by Red & White. Livery was a sort of sang de boeuf, with a propensity to fade. Note donkey jacket, right, a proletarian fashion of the sixties and seventies, usually with plastic yoke, lacking in this particular example. Last year I found an identical garment in the bottom of a trunk. It was one of a CEGB-issue pair, donated my by first father-in-law. I can't remember what happened to the other. Following the reinstatement of two missing buttons, it served me well throughout last winter.
Ever wanted an outfit but just never got around to getting it as there were many other outfits you wanted more? There are SO many Francie outfits I wanted that ‘Note The Coat’ always got passed over for something else, but I always really loved its simple, clean lines and that wonderful bark-like texture of the crepe fabric! I also LOVE those short 60’s double breasted coats, and the fact that its white reminds me of something that Courregés or even Valentino would have done, as in that famous all-white collection he designed in 1968. This coat of course, was released a year earlier, as Francie was always a trendsetter! I decided to go ‘all-white’ here and do a typical 60’s head-to-toe monochromatic look on my 1966 bend-leg Francie, using the stylish white cotton hat from the later ‘That Girl’ doll from 2002 and the white pleather pants from ‘Leather Limelight’. She also borrowed Tressy’s camera for the day, as I needed something black, white and graphic swinging from her arm! I may do another look without the pants and substitute some space age white Mod boots next…
As part of the hidden gardens in Vannes, this garden of pots was not hidden but beautifuly laid out in a wave.
2015 07 30 142846 France Brittany Vannes 1HDR
Notities van bezoekers na een rondgang door het Dolhuys ('museum van de geest' in Haarlem) en een blik in de spiegel
Notes of visitors of Dolhuys ('Madhouse', museum about mental problems and psychiatry in Haarlem), after finishing their visit with a look in the mirror
Flixing rather than flying….
Xplore Dundee is unusual for a former municipal bus operation in that it runs an express service from Dundee to Edinburgh Airport, Scotland’s busiest and, by a country mile, worst airport. If you don’t understand why I dislike it, I feel it’s a shopping centre that planes land at. But I digress…
Anyway Xplore Dundee uses high specification coaches on the service, such as 632 (DXC330). But you’ll notice that this coach isn’t on this service. It’s actually on a Flixbus servive from Glasgow but at least it’s going through Dundee.
On an interesting side note, it was recently announced by Flixbus and McGill’s, the owners of Xplore Dundee, that they will be expanding their business partnership with an additional eiighteen coaches arriving to add to the seven existing coaches already used. The announcement didn’t specify what routes or whether it’ll be new routes or expansions of existing ones or even a combination of both. Of course with McGill’s now owning Midland Bluebird and First Scotland East, it gives them more bases that they can utilise to run routes from, particularly in Edinburgh.
Note the tail wheel not locked. I sent this pic to the BBMF showing this Hurricane's malfunction. They had to look back into their war records to make sure it was ok.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."~Aldous Huxley
Music is passion...
Inspired by a song, 'good enough' by evenescence, sentimental
love note
to the me
i am becoming
new challenges
i am confronting
and what
is this to me
hiding
in contemplation
a reevaluation
that surges
with delight emergent
pushing forward
expectant yet
having
a cascade of vitality
continuance rather than longing
unfolding aimlessly
the former
opened and flourishing
a blueprint of my future
individuality
B I R D
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