2010 a bumper year!

Well we are coming to the end of the season for 2010 and it's been a really busy year. We've had lots of wedding bookings and the Barnard Castle route is well established with lots of locals going shopping as well as the odd tourist not to mention the Hawes route which still enjoyes bumper numbers.

Don't forget to put in your diaries the last trips of the year to Hawes and Ribblehead on Tuesday 26th October, your favourite conductor Gordon will be onboard (I know lots of you have missed him this year in his second retirement). The Barnard Castle route will be changing after the Wednesday to the winter timetable. We have had some of the ladies asking about any possible changes the govenment might bring in to the passes but we know of no changes and will definately be running the winter wednesday shopping spectacular regardless!

We have had lots of very interesting private hires this year with Ant and Gordon going as far as Arisaig in Scotland and Dad staying in a castle near Edinburgh. The second box file of thank you's is bulging, with 3 coming in for Dad's jobs just this last week! We now have a competition going as to who gets the most.

Florence in Edinburgh with Dad.

Favourite Pics

Hi everyone, Mum has been doing some closeup pics of the buses for our keyrings and I just thought I'd share them with you. I'll let you guess which buses they're off!

Just thought I would show some pictures taken this week whilst on the trip to Hawes, travelling on Peter the bus. Anthony was in charge of the driving department and Charlie did a good job as conductor, demonstrating his sales skills on the return journey by selling numerous fridge magnets, key rings etc.

Shetland Trip Update

I spoke to Will this evening, their journey to Aberdeen went well, having stayed overnight on Wednesday at Perth and Will phoned from the ship to say that they had set sail two hours previously and that they were settled on board and enjoying a pleasant evening meal. How the mobile phones work when you are two hours from port is a bit of a mystery to me, but that's the wonder of modern technology! Peter the bus is performing well and tomorrow it will be unloaded at Lerwick and be driving around Shetland, apparently few double deck vehicles have ever been used on the island so it will probably cause a fair amount of interest. The party (and the bus) will be attending the bi-annual Classic Vehicle Show.

TV appearance

Hey did anyone catch Rosie bus and Dad on BBC1 last night. It was the History of the World programme at 7.30 it's probably on BBC IPlayer.It was all about the opening of Calder Hall. The first time we went to film there was a blizzard and although the bus got there the film crew didn't, the second time was cancelled as the guy got ill however lucky for some, filming happened on the third time.

Update News

Hi everyone, Been a bit busy recently and just thought I've been neglecting my Blog! It's nice to see at least David has been putting up a couple of posts in my abscence and we have a couple more followers. News: We were awarded runnerup in the Eden Hero's Business Award, thanks to all who nominated us! It was a lovely dinner and we got to hobnob with all the councellors. The 569 route has started again, I've managed to get out and drive it once so far, 32 on this week so we took 2 buses just in case, The Klipper and Florence. Charlie is doing well, getting his own way of Clippying sorted, just ask him about his box! Bookings are coming in thick and fast for this year (touch wood) we have a couple of jobs that will be taking us far afield, up into Scotland and Alnwick and lots of Proms too. We have enough bookings for the Shetland Tour, Mum and Dad are looking forward to taking that and there has been lots of interest from the islanders. Peter bus was starting to jump out of gear again but we had him to the garage yesterday so we'll see if thats sorted this weekend. Also looking forward to Anthony's 40th in June. Well thats all for tonight, got to signwrite 2 catering trailers tomorrow!

2010 EASTER RALLY

2010 EASTER RALLY Well, the Rally happened, weather OK-ish and everyone seemed happy. Some pictures attached which hopefully capture the mood of the event David G