Lone toddler's Bus Trip Shocker

The things that happen around here. A TWO year-old got on a bus and travelled 24 miles to Shrewsbury unaccompanied. He was just wearing his pyjamas, a nappy and socks, but no shoes, he somehow got on the bus and made the one hour trip to Shrewsbury without anyone noticing the parents were nowhere to be seen. The bus picked up people as usual and this little child managed to crawl on unnoticed and make his way to the back seat. Everyone in the bus naturally assumed the child's parents were on the bus and didn't make any comment about the child sitting on the back seat among a small group of teenagers. The bus driver tells the child wasn't in the slightest way distressed and didn't call out for his mother or father at any time. It wasn't until the bus pulled up at Shrewsbury's bus station that people started to realise the toddler was alone! When the last of the people started to get off the bus, the driver asked 'What about your child? to which everyone replied: 'It's not mine.' That's when it dawned on everyone that this child had made this trip all alone! Until that moment, everyone thought the child belonged to someone else and kept quiet. The concerned bus driver and one of the women on the bus, who had a pram, took the child to the nearest police station, a few hundred yards away and reported the incident. The police have commended the driver for his actions because he made sure the child was safe. The woman the driver was with, also purchased wet wipes and nappies to change the child. Isn't that something ?

Hi ! I'm back.

I have been devoting my time to my painting; the views around here are magnificent, everywhere you look and I have plenty of material to keep me busy painting away landscapes. I go in my car, to my chosen location with all my painting gear and its just really wonderful, we are having a good summer here of sun with a little bit of showers, so I have chosen to paint with pastels, that way, I don't have to scamper into the car with a wet oil painting that will smudge everywhere and also carry in the umbrella, the easel, the brushes in a real hurry when it rains! a dry medium like pastels means I can paint inside my car, for the most part, I try to choose locations where there is easy access to parking and where I can be seen but not disturbed as I hate being watched when I work, but at the same time, I like places where I don't feel isolated in a lonely spot, in case something goes wrong like the other day. The battery of the car went flat when I wanted to come home. I had borrowed Peter's mobile phone but unfortunatelly for me, these modern mobiles think they are computers or cameras or calendars or playing consoles except a real phone and for some reason, I only kept getting his list of contacts and unable to call him but just before panic set in, all of a sudden as If by magic, I spotted one of the RAC lorries that go in aid of broken down vehicles, so I flagged him down, his company isn't the one we are affilliated with but he still helped me to charge my battery and he didn't want to accept any payment. Without his help, I would have had to continue struggling with the blessed mobile phone to call Peter or.. walking a few miles back home. Anyway, I took my car to the mechanic which is only a short walk from our new home. You would never know the garage is there, the shop is a quaint looking cottage but inside it, it has all the modern equipment to service a car. Now, I love to paint plein air landscapes and it seems not a single day is the same, the second day I was prepared with a new car battery, a new simple mobile phone but got stung by a wasp that day and unfortunately I had to cut the painting session short. The lesson here, is to be prepared with a good insect repellent, a sun blocker and continue to persevere whether it rains or shines.