BUT ONE DAY WE SHALL GET BACK

Copyright James Long Collection.

Sitting in A&E this morning with my mind in turmoil, due to a further Mental Health breakdown after the death of my mum and dad in short succession, for which i'm now getting the appropriate treatment, i never thought i would type in earnest ever again it just felt one step to many,but i need to do this as my favorite quote from Doctor Who is from the First Doctor is "But one day we will shall get back.Yes one day. So that's how i look at it, one day i will return to life
Above you will see a picture from Jimmy Long, of First Ipswich Volvo B7RLE 66957 when freshly painted back in 2014 this month will see the 5th anniversary of the blog, Jimmy was my Eastern Counties mentor and i'm very proud to been working on his collection for the museum, without his advice and of course his marvelous photos the blog wouldn't have been half the success it was during it's infancy, this year hopefully will see the naming of a First Ipswich bus with his name on the front, for which it is richly deserved, too many people have helped to make this worthwhile including Chris Speed at First. If you don't follow the Facebook page please do, as you will get the latest news quicker on there, suffice to say very little has happened while i was way, just the last IB Optare Versa 145 into fleet livery, at the Suffolk Show on Wednesday the first Park and Ride liveried ADL E300 will be launched the remaining ones will be arriving shortly here from Great Yarmouth for repaint at Simon Morris prior to launch on July 3rd.

PARK AND RIDE E 300 UPDATE

With thanks to Joe Thorpe.

A bit of a catch up this week as I have been without proper Broadband all week due to my old laptop developing a connectivity problem, I hope that normal service will resume in June, once I have completed my house move. Right as can be seen above Ipswich depot have received one of the seven ADL Enviro 300's in 67776 which when received was in X95 The Ridings branding from First Scotland East,when I saw it late on Wednesday this was slowly being removed. The other six which have arrived in Great Yarmouth are 67752/60/63/73-75 SN62 APF/AUC/AUK/AXH/K/O, one interestingly 67763 has already escaped the net and complete with Great Yarmouth vinyls slipped into service picture courtesy of Roy at the East Norfolk Bus Blog. One further piece of First news is that Volvo B7L 60916 YGO2 DKU from Norwich is also to be repainted into the same heritage livery as Ipswich's Volvo B7TL 32479, which was Eastern Counties Deregulation livery of Post Office Red with Cream and Orange stripes. Ipswich Buses have repainted a further Optare Versa 150 into current livery see below, whilst today I had the rare joy for my current route the 4 out to Martlesham Tesco in ADL E 200 78 which is usually on the 111 to Hitcham for which it has dedicated branding.