How Not To Do It
This is the Christmas Information from First South Yorkshire. In general we see that, on most days, a Saturday service operates "with minor variations". These variations usually provide extra capacity for those who are still at work. Such journeys would not normally happen on a Saturday.
On Christmas Eve we have a heading "eves service". Good on yer, Eve! But the text is the same as for the other "Saturday service" days. There will be "minor variations".
What are those "minor variations"? For that we would need to interrogate individual timetables.
The astute may work out that "forthcoming" (almost a Shakespearian word?) means, for example, that things are happen ningon 07/12/2925.
But what?
Upon a deeper investigation, we discover that it means FROM Sunday 7th December TO Saturday 20th December.
Giving the actual days would be helpful, First.
So, to check on Eve's service (lucky girl, a bus service just for her!) we need 'Forthcoming on 21/12/2025.
We then need to go to our chosen service. fbb imagined himself back on Crimicar Lane and sought out the 120. For those four days (21 to 24 December) we need FOUR DIFFERENT timetables.
Also note that there are no timetables for Christmas Day or Boxing Day - so no buses on those two days on the very busy and normally frequent cross city 120?
Bur back to Christmas Eve. Now we can check the "minor variations".
Only a tiny change, like there are no buses after approx 1900! Maybe First need to check the meaning on "minor" in their Collins Gem dictionary?
It's only timy but it might have 'minor' in it!
Then fbb looked for his other former local route, the 51 to Lodge Moor.
But, shock horror, the 51 has an entry for 25th December which, if fbb's memory is in its usual crisp and incisive working order, is Christmas Day. There it is, a bus every hour!
Way, way back, possibly in the late sixties or early 70s, there was a brief period when the City Council tendered a Christmas Day service on several main routes. fbb cannot remember who was the operator, but certainly not one of the big names!
But look back at the list at the top of the page. Here it is again to save you all that effort of scrolling back to the top.
Yep; it definitely says NO SERVICES on Christmas Day and SPECIAL SERVICES on Boxing Day, 26th.
But their timetables are equally vehement that the 51 on the big day, the Birthday Party for the boy Joshua, has hourly buses. Equally vehement is that neither the 51 nor the 120 has buses on 26th for those whose Boxing might take them to Fulwood Crimicar Lane or Lodge Moor.
But this is the First Bus that recently published Gkagow timetable changes on the First South Yorkshire web site ....
... so web site reliability is not one if the Company's key management skills.
But, fbb, the Sherlock Holmes of bus timetables, is on the case and will report back in due course.
Stagecoach, a company that is (maybe was) part of the Sheffield Bus Partnerships, (stop sniggering arpt the back!) seems to explain things better. fbb is confident that this list is correct.
More exciting Christmas news to follow.
Again no buses on Christmas day.
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H oliness H ub
Quirky Quiz Question : Three really crackpot ideas are common in illustrations of Moses holding the 'tablets of stone, the source of' the Ten Commandments. (1) Size : have you ever lifted a pavement slab? What is the likelihood of |Moses stagger down Mount Sinai with two of them?
(2) Shape : Can anybody explain why they have curved tops? The two below look like they fold in the middle. Folding stone slabs: a bigger miracle that God writing on them!
Content : the Ten Commandments are sometimes called 'The Decalogue', Greek for Ten Words. These are those ten words in Hebrew.
They would easily fit on something a good bit smaller that your authors 'tablet'.
But people don't like the image of an angry God ...
.... telling them what to do, despite that being exactly what we all need.
There is nothing angry about the Ten Commandments. It is A Covenant, an agreement between two parties; in this case man and God. By far the BEST READING of the ten is this ...
IF
you worship no other god
IF
you do not worship idols
IF
you do not use God's name wrongly
IF
you have a break for worship each week
IF
you respect those that care for you
THEN
YOU WILL NOT
commit murder
YOU WILL NOT
commit adultery
YOU WILL NOT
steal
YOU WILL NOT
make destructive accusations
YOU WILL NOT
want what you cannot have
Seems a good deal all round - so why don't we do it? It is all about holiness - doing things God's way. That becomes a bit more feasible as a result of CHRISTmas.
Quirky Question : What box would be found in the tent?
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Next Sheffield blog : Tuesday 9th December
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