...Summer's over, so I'm off to Bath

Since my son is a student at Bath University (studying Chemical Engineering - which may make him some use to the world), we are provided with the occasional excuse to saunter down to that lovely City. I shall be doing so this weekend - there to deposit himself at his new abode.

I shall also take a brief trip to the seaside - to Weston-super-mare (or Weston-super-mud as others have been wont to call the lovely old town), where my bother lives.

All this means that I won't be writing lots of ranting, moaning stuff featuring an often frantic attempt to explain why, dear reader, they are all wrong.

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A thought about competition

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My son was moaning about the price of a bus fare into Shipley yesterday.

"It's not like that in Bath," he says, "we have competition there."

It would appear that an enterprising bus operator has put on blue buses undercutting First's orange buses (these colours must be a Bath thing) on the popular trip from Bath itself up to the university. Back to my son:

"The blue buses charge £1.50 return, " he says, "compared to £1.95 for the orange buses. All the freshers who live on campus are waiting for the blue bus now."

And it gets better!

"The orange buses have announced a price cut to £1.50 return," says Jethro, "and the blue buses are offering a return of just £1 after 7.00pm!"

So there you are guys, competition works. And works quickly to the benefit of the consumer.

Health? Education? Bring it on!

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