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Sutent

Because I like buses and for no other reason. 

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Sutent

They are all the green lane busses. Which one is your favouruite? 

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Mirandola

Best bus route has to be the 24, surely? Unchanged since the 1920s.

checkski

Quite right, Mirandola - about the niceness, I mean. I don't go back as far as the twenties, but am here to tell you all that the 24 was proudly ploughing its furrow back in the sixties, which were more genuinely 'roaring' than the twenties, by the way. The 24 and I were there, and that gives us both a certain grandeur, we hope you youngsters all agree. Silly young Boris obviously does, as he has wasted loads of money giving it a cutesy new design, and a superfluous pseudo-conductor. One of its nicest features, though, is its capolinea, or terminus, to those of you who were too young to have spent much of the eighties coming and going from sunny Italy. Well, it was one way of keeping the unspeakable Thatcher at bay. The South End Green end, I mean. There is nothing more chest-swelling for us bus freaks (ask Sutent) than to see them lined up and facing you, in their stable. One can almost imagine the bag of oats of their ancestors. The Brioche d'Or provides one vantage point for admiring their cousins, the 210, W3, and W7. The coffee's good, too, and Hakim's cakes are gorgeously OTT in design, but not in price, served by my friend the genial young Shaheer. Anyway, there is an equivalent cafe facing the 24s, not a patch on the Brioche, but the capolinea experience is head and shoulders higher, for one reason only, one so sublime as to require yet another paragraph. Cobblestones. I rest my case. I'm using up all Andy's paper, aren't I? Back to the social.

miss annie

I'm in Hampstead for work this weekend @checkski, and was admiring the grand old 24s whilst waiting for a C11 at South End Green yesterday. I think I preferred them in their old green clothes.

Stella

Checksi: you have a beautiful (writing) voice. I think you should (if you haven't already) start a blog or something to share your experience regarding buses. I'm sure there are plenty of people interested and your writing style is quite engaging. <br><br>Just a thought.<br>

checkski

Thank you, Stella. I like writing. Not sure about a blog, though.

Stella

Well, what have you got to lose? Apart from time, that is.<br>

Mirandola

Any chance you'd like to tell me about Hornsey Road in the 1960s?

checkski

Sorry, Mirandola - I didn't know Hornsey Rd in the 60s, and don't really know it all that well now.

Detritus

I used to get the 24 when I lived in Pimlico, and I know it was in Passport To Pimlico that was filmed in 48/49.

Mirandola

Oh well.

Sutent

I went to wb Yeats and booked a corner for next Friday under Stroud Green. Org from 1800. normally I work from home Fridays but due to Jesus dying and resurrecting I have to finish off some experiments on Friday. Will be there around 1930

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Sutent

Ah OK. Will try and get there quicker.

Stella

I'll try to be there around six and keep you company, Misscara. <br>

Arkady

I'll probably be there about 18:30.

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Detritus

I should be up and dressed for about half six.

Roy

I'm hoping to make it before 7pm.<br><br>roy<br>

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Sutent

What time will you be Misscara?

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NorthNineteen

I'll be there about 6.15 I'd guess.

NorthNineteen

I'm here...but no-one else is...

Stella

I will be there in 10

Roy

I'm just heading over now....  Hopefully there'll be someone there I recognize, but I'll be the goth with the distinctive footwear...<br><br>roy<br>