North East thread 7: the bus chat continues...

[Someaddedsugar]

Just setting this up so it's here

I think the bus station scaffolding is here to stay 😂.
They are updating Stanley bus station too.
I am looking forward to the reforming Pilates classes (might try one day)
But I love a float in a flotation tank and a infra red sauna!

Would really love to see a skate park somewhere, Gateshead has lost their skate park.
Never been to Bishop, was going to go to Food Festival but just forgot to go!

According to pokemon go, there is a skate park next to the Abbey leisure centre and one at Riverside park in CLS. Amazingly, I haven't sampled either 😂😂

Stanley bus station was chaos when I was there with DS2, the other week. Still, it will magically keep the scum away when it's finished.

One in Coxhoe with good reviews.

We have seen the one at Abbey sports centre, it’s not big really.
Chester park really needs two skate parks because the big kids( teenagers) don’t really like the smaller ones using.
I keep forgetting about Chester one! My DD’s liked the monkey bars and the obstacle course bit.
But too much drinking going on. On an evening for my liking.
I couldn’t believe Stanley bus station was even more bloody freezing than normal. I was really confused, god only knows why as there was only about 4 bits open . 😂

They need to play classical music maybe! They keep having disposal orders, bloody disgraceful behaviour.

The information boards don't work, though! Everyone is climbing over each other to find their stand.

Mind, the tracking for the buses in Durham has completely fallen apart, this week, with the various accidents. Two mornings in a row of it comes when it comes if it hasn't given up and isn't coming anyway.

Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink.

Most of the northern half Co Durham, it seems.

If you want to track a service you are waiting for, try bustimes.org

Apologies if I have mentioned this before.

It's a permanently open tab for at least half our bus obsessed household 😊 The apps access the same open bus data but their data filtering often leaves something to be desired.

At Stanley the go northeast app tells to to check the boards in the station as half is boarded up. As they are upgrading.
The apps are great but not when you are watching on app the bus you want. Which you have been waiting 15 minutes for is cancelled just when it’s due!
And you watch it come in bus station and just leave
I wish the actual boards were live buses not just the timetable!

I slept through the no water this morning. But apparently our never went off was just very very slow.

DH and DS2 got their breakfasts but it went off just before mine. DS2 was in quite a tizz when I showed him why he couldn't have a bath. At least we've used up our slightly out of date emergency stash of water. Sainsburys only had overpriced smart water.

We've not had a power cut in the 8 years we've lived in this house but this is the 3rd time we've lost water.

The pipe work is really struggling with the amount of new houses in the last twenty odd years.
I know they are building a new water pipeline whatever it’s called near Pity me.
There is a road near us that every time they fix one part. The next part bursts. Over the last 10 years they have put new pipe work over about a quarter of a mile stretch.
I wish they would just replace the whole stretch so I don’t have to put up with burst pipe then the 3 weeks of traffic lights after the fix! Until they bother to remove!