The Readers on the ‘Bus are Quite Relaxed…

East of the M60’s World Book Day posting

Unfortunately for me, I am too young to dress up as a literary character. Not least the fact I left school nearly 20 years ago. For someone whose reading habits include bus timetables, left-of-centre newspapers and websites, there was no way I was going to dress up as the GMT M-Blem. Or a Leyland Atlantean. Thomas the Tank Engine or The Fat Controller (I know the P.C. brigade prefer to call him Sir Topham Hatt) probably, owing to the fact Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s books were my concession to fictitious works.