On the buses: Cotswold Green route 28

I am on the bus from Stroud town centre, it's turning up Field Road and climbing the steep hill up to the hospitals, past the Trinity rooms and away! An elderly man with flowing locks and a yellow beard longer than Gandalf's suddenly bursts into song,

"Remember the war, the war...of the worlds"

I turn to see if he has an iPod or Walkman on, but no, he's just singing out loud.

The sun bursts out and the sky is a delightful shade of azure, but the bus windows are splattered with mud, hence the 'comic' effect used in processing.



This terrace of houses is called Upper Dorrington terrace and it has a long communal garden in front. The Dorrington family have a mausoleum in Stroud Hill cemetery, see CleanSteve's blip of the tomb here. Chris M from Stroud Against the Cuts lives in this terrace, as does Harry, who owns Piccadilly mill, which I blipped here. The street overlooks a supermarket on the London road and Rodborough hill with its picturesque fort. Rodborough fields, a patch of green in the semi-urban landscape, is under threat of development. 100 houses and an access road are proposed. Where are the jobs for the 100 or so families that might move in?

In the supermarket below, I bumped into a friend last week. We congratulated each other on both having jobs in Stroud at last, after months/years of commuting to Gloucester, Cheltenham and London, on the trains and buses.

More on the buses blips:
Route 28 in the common
Route 28 in Stroud