Life In A Sleepy County.

[Buenchico]

Other parts of the country have problems with gun crime, knife crime, drugs, etc. Here in Suffolk though, this is the current lead item on our local rag's website:
https://tinyurl.com/yzh4vxdm

I quite like living here really ;-)

[Buenchico]

A good point, TCL.

I note that the credit for the photo is given to the guy who owns the property (and who is behind the complaint). Maybe he took it before the work was fully completed? The 'No stopping' line is there, together with the pole for the sign to show the applicable times, but the rest of the road markings,
http://www.ukparking.info/images/8.jpg
together with an actual 'Bus Stop' sign, appear to be missing.

Mind you though, that's not particularly unusual in Suffolk. One is often expected to realise that the presence of a bus stop on one side of the road means that buses in the reverse direction stop on the other side of the road as well (even though there's no signage to tell you that)!

[Buenchico]

There's actually a bus stop just a few yards from my house. Someone at the council must have realised that it was almost totally hidden among the bushes fronting a neighbour's house, so they sent out a team of workers to put it higher up.

It's now so high up that you have to be looking skywards to see it! However you can't catch a bus there anyway, as they moved the sign higher up several months after the bus company stopped running buses through this estate!

[jno]

this new bus shelter is the real thing

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/127686768/auckland-transport-builds-32000-bus-stop-on-an-island-with-no-public-transport

it's just that there are no buses.

[gness]

We don't have bus stops. There is a bus we can catch outside one of the pubs but if that doesn't suit we just ring Ted who owns the buses.

[Buenchico]

Suffolk can be a bit like that, Gness.

I remember, many years ago, setting out by public transport with my parents for a day trip to Southwold. We took the train to Halesworth but then found a sign at the bus shelter there, saying that the main bus company in the area had discontinued the service to Southwold. Some time later though, we found a completely different bus stop with a sign advertising a new service from one of the smaller bus companies.

We waited for the bus and, upon boarding, my father asked the driver if the company offered return fares on its services. On being told that they did, my father asked for three returns to Southwold and waited for the tickets. When he didn't get any, he asked the driver for them. "Oh, we don't issue any tickets on our buses", he was told. Upon being asked how we were meant to prove that we'd already paid when we made our return journey, the driver replied, "Well, if you're going out at this time, you must be coming back on the last bus. Fred will be driving that one. Just tell him that you paid Joe".

We did return on the last bus and Fred was perfectly happy to take our word for it that we'd paid Joe!

[gness]

Nice isn’t it. :-)

[Buenchico]

We've got ferry services rather like that here too, Gness. If you want to cross the river from Southwold to Walberswick, you start by standing on the jetty and hollering "Ferryman!" at the top of your voice. (For some reason, he always seems to be on the wrong side of the river!). Then, if there's a outgoing tide, he has to row several hundred metres upstream against the tide, so that the current will then take him back to where you are. Then he rows several hundred metres upstream again, so that his boat can then drift to the jetty on the far side of the river. All for two quid!

[gness]

That’s great! We can go to the estuary and shout Richard for a sail across. I though I could beat your two quid til I remembered the pint on the other side. :-)