Lugg Hole : Lugg Valley : Lugg Minster (1)

May the God of infinity and eternity who manifest his godliness on earth approx 2000 years ago; may He bless you even if you ignore Him!

Not Well Known?

The River Lugg is, perhaps, not the best known of English water courses. It rises in Llangynllo in Powys (Wales) and flows via Presteigne and Leominster to Hereford. 

One of several possibilities for the origin of the name Leominster is that it was a corruption of Minster (church) on the Lugg, later gentrified by allowing the name to slide into something more acceptable, viz a distinguished name like Leo of Leofric fame..

So pin back you Lugg Holes and we will explore a bus company that also takes its name from the river.

The company has ben around for many years as indicated by old coach and bus pictures on-line.

The livery back then was white or cream with an orange and green stripe ...

... which, for its day, looked quite smart. The modern version is all over cream ...

... but with flashes echoing the stripes of old. The buses still look smart, but that drop shadow lettering is a bit dated by today's standards.

As its name doesn't immediately suggest, the company's operating area is centred on the historic town of Leominster ...

... pronounced "Lemster"! The town has a somewhat basic bus station ...

... where many Lugg Valley routes will lurk.

The company's current web site shows a vast array of services ...

... all colour coded and many with brand names.

Timetables pick up the colour of the headings, even those for schools route 802. There are route maps as well, seemingly derived from Traveline information. Here is the 802 again.

Here a "Shopper" service 507 timetable as an example of colour coding.

All very nice ... BUT!

Summats up in the valley of the Lugg!

Effectively Lugg Valley Travel has ceased to exist, despite its excellent current web site!

From The Traffic Commissioner

The public service vehicle operator’s licence, reference PD0001646, held by Lugg Valley Travel Ltd, is revoked under sections 17(1)(a) [loss of good repute], 17(1)(b) [transport manager no longer of good repute], 17(1)(a) [no longer professionally competent], 17(3)(aa) [breaches of the general undertakings], 17(3)(b) [breaches of the licence conditions], 17(3)(c) [prohibitions] and 17(3)(e)[material changes] of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (the “Act”). Revocation takes effect at 2359 hours on 31 December 2025.

Transport manager Mr Ian Davies has lost his good repute as a transport manager and is disqualified as a transport manager for four years from 2359 hours on 31 December 2025 until 30 December 2029 under Schedule 3 paragraph 7B(2) of the Act. His two rehabilitation measures are detailed later in this written decision.

Lugg Valley Travel Ltd is disqualified from holding or obtaining any type of operator’s licence in any traffic area for four years from 2359 hours on 31 December 2025 until 30 December 2029. This order is made under section 28 of the Transport Act 1985.

The sole director of Lugg Valley Travel Ltd, Mr Nigel David Yeomans, is disqualified from holding or obtaining any type of operator’s licence in any traffic area and is further disqualified from being a director of a company that holds or applies to obtain any type of operator’s licence in any traffic area. These orders of disqualification are made under section 28 of the Transport Act 1985 and start at 2359 hours on 31 December 2025 and end on 30 December 2029, a four year order.

But the demise may have come sooner in practice. Problems had existed for most of 2025.

fbb will try to ferret out the current situation in tomorrow's blog. It's complicated!

Meanwhile ...

... with nothing to do except write blogs, cook dinners, prepare fellowship meetings, eat too much and generally get stressed ...

... your aged blogger cum modeller discovered another freebie card kit from Metcalf. He had forgotten it, but it rose oil-like from the coal measures beneath the model railway.

It has got a tiled floor ...

What might it be?

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  Y earning for  Y eshua

Quirky Question : What were they expecting soon which still hasn't happened even after nearly 2000 years? Answer obvious!

Historically, there was a big debate trying to answer a key theological question. "How many angels can stand on the head of a pin?

Recently, your author spotted this video on YouTube.

Many Christians see Cremation as wrong as there will be nothing but dust to reconstite into a heavenly new body..

A similarity similar problem was faced by the early Christian Church along the lines of how sad it would be for those who had died before Christ returned. They would miss out on heaven!

Paul wrote his take on their concerns in a letter to Thessalonica.

Our friends, we want you to know the truth about those who have died, so that you will not be sad, as are those who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.

What we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died. There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first; then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 

There are some ludicrous pictures of the events at the end of time; all feeble and rather pointless attempts to visualise something that is, literally, out of this world and into God's infinity and eternity.

What will Jesus look like when he returns?

Why would he be wearing a priest's uniform? And why would all the Christians be in their Sunday best?

The Gospels say Jesus will come "like. a thief in the night," so surely no time to dress in their best.

All the blokes are wearing ties. You author only wears a tie when he takes funerals; does that mean he won't get to heaven?

Will Christ's return be like a Faraday cage without the cage, a display of huge unbelievable status and power?

One way of thinking through the "who gets there first problem" is to realise there is no 'first'. Gos is infinite remember?

To the pea brained, like your blogger, it is like a round of heavenly Monopoly. 

But replace the word "jail" with "to meet God". There's scary.

The crunch question is how will God judge us when we get there and what will happen then?

A thought best not ignored, eh?

Tomorrow is most definitely Z - The End ... or might it be the beginning?

Heavy? Or is it heavy?

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