Emotion Commotion
Apparently it is 'not the done thing' to take photographs at funerals, so the above is from an Undertakers' sales brochure. But last week was a bit of a roller-coaster emotionally. It was Chris's funeral on Friday; he was one of the fbb's fellowship regulars. Then as they arrived at Church they were informed that Stan, another stalwart, had died that morning.
Both were elderly and with health problems and both will be glad to be meeting their God in eternity.
fbb is reminded of a sound bite from former golfers Berhard Langer. He said ...
When a non-believer dies he passes from life to death; when a Christian dies he passes from death to life.
But it has been busy few days, so readers will excuse mini-blogs until Wednesday 4th February.
Warrington Or St Helens?
It's is a bit of a challenge to grasp where the eastern border of Merseyside actually falls. St Helens us IN, bit Warrunton is OUt. The border is the thick dotted line in the map below.
On the right is Warrington Cheshire and on the left we have the fringes of St Helens district of Merseyside Metropolitan County. Their thick blue line is the M62.
The Council Leader in Warrington is Hans Mundry ...
... and the CEO is Sarah Smith.
She look far too jolly to be a Chief Executive! Meanwhile we all know the boss man in Merseyside ...
... Steve Rotheram, everybody's hero and favourite yellow bus fanatic. So when fbb saw this news snippets on-line we was convulsed with ecstatic excitement - well, mildly interested anyway.
And the accompanying picture was, of course, of a yellow bus!
It would appear that Steve isn't paying - or maybe is paying much less subsidy that such a new route might need.
The Omega Business Park straddles the border between the two authorities and is already bigger than the nap above shows. It has a surprisingly good service from the centre of Warrington ...
... running in a somewhat wiggly fashion via tradition town housing, Buses on route 13 run every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday ...
... with a minimalist service on Sundays. Clearly buses run at shift pattern times ...
... rather than, as would have happened in the past, to convey worshippers to their diverse ecclesiastical destinations.
So that's Warrington sorted. Now, what is Steve providing for residents of Merseyside who may wish to get to the Omega Business Park.
Already running is the 921 ...
... striking off east from St Helens. The timetable is very 'shifty' but does run seven days a week. The route is circuitous.
The route attempts to serve all the main warehouse blocks ...
... even crossing the M62 to get to Omega North.
The bus used to look like this ...
... before it was painted grey.
The 922 starts today!
It wiggles from the north ...
... via Burtonwood, Omega North, Lockheeds Road then over the M62 to its terminus. It serves much less of the collection of warehouses than the 991. Here is a view with Omega North in the foreground.
With the first set of franchising contracts due later this year it is good to see that Big Steve is already making those significant (?) improvements that the new bus broom has promised to sweep in.
Folk will be able to get to Home Bargains at any time of the day as long as it is early in the morning, briefly at lunchtime, or later in the evening.
fbb's guess is that most employees will go by car!
Sorry, it's a distribution centre, not a retail store!
Tomorrow ; a Metro and a Station.
P.S. Steve will be heartbroken, neither operator will run yellow buses!
Next Mystery Mini blog :Mon 2nd Feb
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