Today's excursion...

...will be out to the Reading Cinemas at Charlestown to see The Last Exorcism. This is probably the best of a bad bunch of films on at the moment. I really just want an excuse to see what it's like, so long as I don't have to walk up the stairs outside to get to it. Might go on to the uni afterwards for one or two things, and do a some light shopping on the way home.

K&M leave for a camping trip with M's folks for the weekend. I may or mauy not see them again before I leave for Perth. Stuff is being sorted out for pet care either way.

Bus Timetable Changes

The Hunter Valley buses (which include Sugar Valley, Toronto and Minmi bus routes) are all changing their timetables on the 28th. I was a little disappointed with what we got (they were handing out timetables the other day) but what we lose on the roundabouts we pick up on the swings.

For example, currently the last bus home from Cardiff station on a Sunday leaves at 6pm; that's now 2pm. And there are less buses on a Sunday, but more on Saturday and buses will now run on Easter Friday, Xmas Day and ANZAC day (they didn't before). There are a lot more buses from the university to Wallsend. At the moment the last bus to leave from the uni is 6:05pm; that's the same more or less with the new timetable, but there's now a Minmi Bus that leaves at 6:43pm, and the last bus from Jesmond to home is now 8:15pm instead of 7:15pm. For some reason the Minmi and Cameron Park buses  will be running regularly to their nearest major shopping centre (Wallsend and Glendale) well after 9pm on a weekday, but the ones to Barnsley won't.

Oh well, I almost had a social life back, and overall I do have more options on weekdays and Saturday, though Sunday has been cut to a bare-bones service. For better or worse I still need to get a postie bike and learn how to drive it. That won't be until sometime next year, in my own time.

Swings and roundabouts. That said, I'm glad I'm travelling down to Sydney to catch a plane on a Tuesday and not Sunday!