please empty your brain below
How do you know she was a "single mother"?

Severin | 09.12.04 - 9:27 a.m. | #

Not only was there no sign of the baby, there was no sign of the dad either. Or a wedding ring.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 9:47 a.m. | #

Hmmm, still think that's a pretty big presumption. Not all parents are married, and I think most mothers are liberated enough to leave the house on their own occasionally. Maybe you've been watching too much Vicky Pollard?

Severin | 09.12.04 - 10:16 a.m. | #

She might not even have been a mother for all I know, maybe she just liked taking pushchairs for a walk. But I'll happily go with your assumption, Inspector.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 10:30 a.m. | #

For the reasons known only to themselves, the planners of the estate where I grew up decided to call all the streets after airports, so the road next to mine was, you guessed it, Heathrow. It was something of a mental adjustment to realise that Heathrow was not in fact a small suburban street full of tasteful bungalows, but one of the busiest airports in the world. A bit like my childhood cats being called Oedipus and Figaro.

Katherine | 09.12.04 - 10:54 a.m. | #

Hounslow to Slough.

Hmm. Such choices.

Kind of like: would you prefer to be plunged in boiling oil or have a red hot poker shoved where the sun don't shine?

Not that I've anything against either destination, of course.

Vaughan | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 10:55 a.m. | #

Are we also assuming, for the purposes of this website, that Inspector Sands is in charge today?
Anyway, far be it from me to stand in the way of lazy stereotypes, so shall we just assume, for the purposes of this website, that she was adorned in Argos jewellery as well?

Severin | 09.12.04 - 10:58 a.m. | #

If there's no sign of a baby, I'd like to question the "mother" part of the assumption, if that's okay.

Le Bob | 09.12.04 - 11:04 a.m. | #

"In the High Street our bus was boarded by a teenage (probably, unless she just looked very young for her age) single (probably, although she might still be going out with the bloke who knobbed her) mother (probably, although the baby might have been her sister's or that of a close family friend, if indeed there was a baby in the first place) in a bright (that's relatively bright, compared to say the Sun) pink (probably, although a fashion designer might have described the colour as 'shocking rose' or 'pale crimson') coat with white fur trim (probably not real fur, admittedly, just a cheap synthetic substitute, unless perhaps this girl was in fact very rich and merely masquerading as a council estate slag out on a day's shopping trip, possibly at Argos)."

Better?

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 11:29 a.m. | #

I never knew bus journeys could be so contentious.

NiC | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 5:32 p.m. | #

Tell it like it is DG - you were there and we weren't

onionbagblogger | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 7:31 p.m. | #

While on Bath Road I hope you took a peek at Hounslow West tube station (classic London Underground 30's design).

I'm with you on Hounslow bus station being particularly grim (and the yellow witness appeal signs which appear there regularly don't do very much for the decor). However I have to say, travelling in the evening recently I have found the drivers friendly and helpful and doing their best to make me feel I had made the right choice bussing it instead of getting a cab (letting me get on the bus instead of leaving me to wait on the platform while he was having a break).

Shame my line isn't a square or a cube. It's a prime number though... maybe next year? It would be nice to see it through different eyes for a change.

stroppycow | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 7:58 p.m. | #

Prime routes, eh? That's a good idea.
Trouble is, though, there are tons of them...

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.04 - 8:10 p.m. | #

Route 81 between Slough and Hayes. Route 140 between Hayes and Harrow. Route 183 between Harrow and Kingsbury. This happens to be my backup journey home! I have to agree that the 81 is a bit grim.

Route 79 is prime ...

Jag | Homepage | 10.12.04 - 10:53 a.m. | #

I agree Slough really is a depressing place, I've been there far too many time to care to remember watching Dulwich Hamlet play football & Streatham Redskins at ice hockey.
I thought it was a dump long before the rest of the country jumped on the bandwagon after The Office! The only good thing about it is the number of mobile kebab vans on the streets at night, as you go back to the station!

Gawblimeyman | Homepage | 10.12.04 - 2:03 p.m. | #

I think 465 is the furthest out of Central London (Dorking). But I'm impressed you actually made it to 'Sunny Slough'.

cmd | 29.12.04 - 11:34 a.m. | #











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