Monday Portrait: Her Late Majesty’s Loyal Bus

37 thoughts on “Monday Portrait: Her Late Majesty’s Loyal Bus”

1. Well spotted.

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   1. All the Number 36 buses have been doing this since the Queen’s death.

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      1. Goodness me!

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2. And to think that only a few weeks ago I was riding that bus. Do you think the London ones will have done the same? It’s a lovely idea.

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   1. It does have a certain charm doesn’t it? And I’m a big fan of the number 36 bus, spiriting me to Big Cities!

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      1. Big Cities, eh, Margaret? Steady on now, country mouse!

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      2. Oh, aye. Harrogate’s enormous (popn. 163, 000) and Leeds (793,000) unthinkable. My village (700 ), is as big as I can manage.

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      3. Fair enough! À chacon son goût

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3. A very fitting tribute – well spotted indeed! Xx

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4. I liked it – a tribute with a light touch.

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5. How lovely.

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   1. It was a lovely idea on someone’s part.

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6. Yes, well spotted…

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   1. Not at all. This salutation has been on every 36 bus since the day after the Queen died.

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      1. Oh, OK

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7. Love that

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   1. It has a certain charm, doesn’t it?

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      1. Absolutely

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8. We spotted a bus heading for Blackburn from Manchester with the same message on Saturday. It tickled me.

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   1. Perhaps it’s Transdev bus thing?

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      1. It could well be – I think it is Transdev on the route we saw.

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      2. 🙂

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9. A lovely idea. I’ve not noticed this on London buses but the city did us proud with this morning’s ceremonials around the funeral.

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   1. Indeed. I hadn’t expected to be quite so drawn in, but it was a wonderful occasion.

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10. Wonderful, and what Pomp and Circumstance today, although very sad.

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    1. I was thinking of you today Peter. The military in you must have been so very proud. Those young men, both Army and Navy, who had such an important role acquitted themselves with great dignity.

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11. I should imagine that the bearer party are having a very stiff drink, or two! What a responsibility!

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    1. Quite. I’d buy ’em a drink!

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12. I smiled to see the message on one of our buses and am glad you caught a picture of it.

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    1. Yours must be a Transdev Town then, too.

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13. Sweet tribute. Watching all the pomp and ceremony from the colonies here I admit to being broken up by her pony and groom standing on the side of the procession😢

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    1. Ah! I think I’d stopped watching by then, but I heard about it.

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14. Thanks for this glimpse into the British psyche. I don’t think it would occur to us here to message that way, or that succinctly. Very eloquent.

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    1. I doubt if you have anybody whom everybody, whatever their views, has respected as a person for so very many years. We haven’t any more.

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       1. Very well put and I agree. End of an era.

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15. A nice and understated tribute.

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    1. I thought so.

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