An Inspector Calls

The phone rings at 06:30. That is never a good start to the day! It can only mean that we are at least two drivers short today. A short conversation with the supervisor confirms my fate, I already know that the options are few at such short notice. Still, a couple of trips in the Cirencester area on a clear and sunny morning can't be all that bad. Many people would pay for an excursion around idyllic Cotswold Villages and I get all this for free! After a few phone calls duties are changed, another driver is drafted in, I am collected from Cirencester to return to Nailsworth HQ and a sense of normality returns. So much frantic activity just to make sure all of the services run and to time! What will tomorrow bring and how much did today cost?

A day of more paperwork (how many trees had to die?) follows this unexpected early start. The in-tray disappeared some time ago under a teetering mountain of paper and I often dream of the day when I may catch a glimpse of black plastic, indicating that I have nearly reached the bottom!

The good news today is that commercial advertising may soon be gracing most of our vehicles with a new contract in the offing. All the income possible is needed to offset the horrendous fuel price increases of recent weeks.

But it can also be fun to spend! Finally the finance for a new ticket machine system is coming together and an order will soon be placed! Less paperwork is promised and the data will be at my fingertips instead of deciphering endless streams of numbers which then have to be entered into a spreadsheet to make any sense of them!

Not the best of days today but certainly not the worst!