Wherever there are little children, people are kindlier. Africans in particular have a great love for them.
Oh dear. Shades of Mr Cholmondley-Warner as the chaps at the British Colonial Unit extol the delights of the London bus.
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I couldn’t help noticing how the two African students who began their bus journey looking refreshed, happy and quite animated, by the end of the trip seem as morose as the rest of the passengers.
“cripple”??LikeLike
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Ah, the splendid old AEC (the Rolls-Royce of PSVs) RT. Some still in service, I believe, in parts of the world after retiring from London decades ago. I remember a day as a school boy of about 9 years old with a friend travelling around Surrey on a Rover Ticket, from Sutton to Croydon, Dorking, Guildford. Conductors would not have been averse to a clip round the ear to curb unruly behaviour. The film may cause derision in some, but it is not unrepresentative of the gentle cohesive society we had, and shows just how much we have lost.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) was recently on TV, in which a boy of about 9 shows the clandestine Spaceman (Michael Rennie) around Washington alone, with the full consent of his mother. Can you imagine that happening today, after such horrors as the Moors murders and Stranger Danger?LikeLike
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Differently legged?
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Mick Hartley 
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