What's changed about the bus...

How some things haven't changed since the 80s

As a teenager I to school by green United Counties bus, remember those before the white heat of privatisation?  Well I lived one side of good old Leighton Buzzard and my upper school (Cedars) was the other side of Linslade. .

Buses back then were a terrible experience I don't think I ever travelled on one where the windows were any other colour than  brown. .

Anyway now it's private and it's all free wifi and hand stiched Italian leather seats but one thing has not changed..

Why is it when  buses travel they sound and feel inside as if they are trying to shake themselves and possible you to pieces?? I mean cars don't and neither do trains or coaches so what is it about the bus manufacturing process that means it's apparently ok to only half tighten all the bolts or fit only a specifically rattlely type of glass in the windows?

Answers on a postcard to www.haveyouheardofsuspension.com

S

How to begin...or why

Finally after much procrastination a small amount of thought and no sleepless nights I decided to come back to the world of blog..

1. Not sure I think I thought it might be a way to stay just slightly this side of sane, a kind of sounding board for my head

2. Why now - well I've said to many (well a few) that I 'had a blog' only to have to admit that I had a short lived 2 month long travel blog - such a fraud 

3. Finally decided that if I want to do this I actually have to create a new blog and write a post - with time will come an outpouring of great imagination I'm sure.

So this is just the start to force me to actually do something - write about your boring life and times Stephen I hear you scream - well ok if you really insist..

For those of you who missed me first time round..

Live - Kettering

Work - IT

Life - 2.4 kids and a wife

Age - right side of 50 wrong side of 48

and so the intro is done...