Originally Posted by McCrankpin

Sorry to hear that, hope the situation is recoverable without huge difficulty.

Originally Posted by McCrankpin

Maybe I'll bring a nerdy angle to this 'hot topic'.

I've never had strong opinions about EM or CB. Until I read that CB was to drive a Routemaster bus at the Ace Cafe!
What!!!!!!
The hate welled up inside. I had to go and see this. Maybe with rotten tomatoes.

As long as I can remember I've wanted a London Routemaster bus. I got within a whisker's when LT sold off a batch for £2000 each to pre-approved buyers. But the annual cost of permanent indoor storage within sensible reach of my home put it out of bounds.
And now, at the Ace, here was CB within easy tomato-throwing distance climbing up into the cab. How could this be??

Sitting right there behind a Routemaster steering wheel!! Just because ..... well, just because....

While the cameras whirred Charley engaged the pre-selector. Then smiling at all the right lenses, and wrestling the wheel with a flourish, he made a pretty good fist of driving the majestic double-decker out of the car park to neatly join the traffic on the North Circular Road. So all was right with the world again. He's an ok guy after all!

Any bus anoraks here, get yourself onto a (new) No. 38 Routemaster from Victoria, upstairs right at the front.
Like being on a grand ocean liner. Huge wrap-around windows floor to ceiling. Comfy seats. Silence as the bus pulls away. S-m-o-o-t-h, even on the beat-up London bus lanes.
Maybe these'll be pensioned off one day....