Many see bus enthusiasts standing on cold dreary street corners spotting and they believe all that we do is collect numbers and know no attractive women or even have normal intelligent friends. But when I was young we might have been children till we became young adults in long trousers, but even then we only had our 'pocket money', and unlike today's spoilt teenagers we had to amuse ourselves with hobbies as entertainment and spending was seriously rationed. So yes I was once an 'Ace' spotter but like many others I now use my childhood hobby to further other more creative interests. If you haven't already guessed I like photographing buses and girls, preferably together, but some views are breathtaking anyway like this Duple bodied coach from Bishops Auckland arriving at Windermere in the English Lake District.