General Chat

If it's a New Forest thing is it subject to Donkeys kicking the side of it rather than youths during their misspent time burning and vandalising it?....

Sharron yes the name does seem to be misleading though quite what they could call it I've no idea.

It could be something as simple as village transport on request but there are a lot of villages with similar. Come to think of it I have not seen our local transport mini bus around for a while maybe that has been caught by Covid, some were because of the social distancing rules a mini bus would have a much reduced capacity

More drivers will now be delivering groceries by now, Sharron, but as Ann and I both wrote, distancing inside a van is not easy.

(This week alone, I have seen Ocado, Sainsburys and Iceland vans in our street whereas, once it was unusual. There could have been more grocery delivery vans too but I noticed these three when my own grocery delivery arrived.)

I feel it may prove too expensive to run your community vehicle at the moment. Not only because of safe passenger numbers but the cost of internal disinfecting each time a set (two or three, I would guess at most, depending on the size of the vehicle) of passengers leave and before new ones enter.

Hopefully, it may pick up again when things change.

Thank you everybody for your very thoughtful and helpful ideas about running and financing the mini-bus but all I really wanted to know was what idea was conveyed by the current name.

No doubt, later on, I will be after ideas on all the other aspects of operating the service although that is nothing to do with me, I am very pleased to relate.

Please, lads, don't come here expecting to avail yourself of the Good Companions escort agency.The youngest one is eighty-five.

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We got sidetracked when you took all of us for a ride, Sharron. ;-) :-D

Not with my blood pessure!

Some more totally irrelevant things to ignore.

:-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ too right Sharron

Oh dear,oh dear. Why do I have to poke into things?

The constitution has finally been e-mailed to me and it looks like the mini-bus is closely affiliated to the GCC. It is to provide transport for the'elderly and handicapped poor' of the village'.

I think I might be the first person to read the constitution in fifty years.

Seems it will need to be reconstituted or there is going to be a lot of power invested in the hands of four old ladies!