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An Introduction........
The original intention of this web-site was to create a record what I did after retiring.
Soon after the start of the new millennium, I started a part-time job delivering (mainly) buses and coaches throughout the UK and overseas (if you include the exotic Isles of Sheppy, Wight, Dogs and Man) and I attempted to provide what amounted to a diary - together with an explanation of the work and photographs. In time, some other features with which I have a connection of sorts were added - my time in the army, for example, and journals about travel ((1) and (2)).
Eventually, in the winter of 2008, I retired completely and began new projects - adding new pages from time to time (as displayed in the Site News section). Currently, I comment on life in retirement in the Blog section and have compiled what amounts to a life story based on a quite extensive collection of model vehicles. Putting together a more detailed account of my time at the British nuclear tests on Christmas Island is also in the pipeline; probably in the form of the previously mentioned travel journals.
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."
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.
Watch the video (below)...............