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An Introduction........
After retiring (in the spring of 2001), I had a part-time job delivering (mainly) buses and coaches throughout the UK and overseas (if you include the exotic Isles of Sheppy, Wight and Man) and the original intention of this web-site was to record what I did - together with photographs - in addition to some other features with which I have a connection of sorts - my time in the army, for example, or my travel journals (1) and (2).
In the meantime (in the winter of 2008), I've retired completely and have started on new projects; so, I'm adding new pages from time to time (as displayed in the Site News section). Currently, I'm commenting, occasionally, on life in retirement in the Blog section and compiling what amounts to a life story based on a collection of model vehicles.
What's in a name?
Those who were in the UK during the eighties may recall Maureen Lipman's series of adverts for British Telecom (BT) where she played a Jewish grandmother called Beatie (get it?).
In one of them, her 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."
Anyway, 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 a 'User name' on the internet ever since. So far as I can tell (from Google) only two other people have done the same. One is an interesting character in Australia and the other is what must be a rather sad individual who has used some of my personal details to register with a US police officers' web-site.
Watch the video (below)...............