An Introduction........
Welcome,
My name's Brian Cole; and that isn't a dog-collar. I'm an ancient, but modern, former nuclear test veteran, bus and taxi driver, driving instructor, golf club administrator, pub landlord, and bus station manager. This web-site was prompted by ex-military friends who lived abroad and enjoyed being reminded of places they had known and loved. It was, originally, in effect, a diary covering the best part of ten years when I used to act as part-time roadie to my son; or delivered PSV vehicles around the UK (now edited and condensed into a separate blog). In time, conscious of how much I would like to have known more about my parent's lives (but didn't ask), I have added other features which might be of interest to my own family (some day). Some of the content, such as the Trans-USA and the Patagonia and Peru journals and, to some extent, the Model Auto-biography, are quite detailed accounts of life and travel experiences; most of the rest, however, are mainly photograph-albums.
What's in a name?
Those who were in the UK during the eighties may recall the actress, Maureen Lipman's series of TV commercials for British Telecom (BT) where she portrayed a Jewish grandmother called Beatie (get it?). In one of them, her teenaged grandson was bemoaning the fact that he hadn't done very well in his examinations. He had, however, passed in Sociology.
"You got an OLOGY!" his grandmother exclaimed, "That's not a failure." Watch the video (here).
As it happened, I was involved in the passenger transport industry, at that time, and the word Omnibusologist formed in my mind; and I've adopted it as an internet 'User name' ever since. So far as I can tell (from Google) only two other people have used the word. One is an interesting character in Australia and the other is what must be a rather sad individual who has 'stolen' some of what appear to be my personal details to register with a US police officers' web-site.
