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rant incoming. the bus. one a day now, not sundays, and they wonder why nobody under seventy lives in the village. my mother cant get to the doctors without it being a half day expedition and a favour off a neighbour. they cut the route and call it a consultation. country buses are how you tell whether anyone in charge can see us at all, and the answer is they cant.

You are right Bill, and it is worse than the town folk understand. When the bus goes, the old people are stuck, simple as that. I gave up my car at seventy-nine and some weeks the bus is the only time I leave the village at all. They do not see us, you have it exactly. Out of sight is out of mind, and we are very out of sight up here.

Same our end, we lost the Tuesday service last year. It is the quiet way a village dies, you know. Not all at once: just the bus, then the shop, then the school, then the pub, and one day it is only weekend cottages and nobody left to put the bins out for the old folk. Sorry, that got bleak before lunchtime. But it does start with the bus.