It’s been so good to get the buses out again after their long winter/spring layoff. For the wedding of Jen & Amy at the end of May, we had three pieces of good luck: the haar that had lain over Edinburgh for several days lifted, the sun came out and the road up Calton Hill was open!

Swathes of our clients have postponed their weddings to 2021. However, some have crafted a special, smaller-scale celebration and we have been delighted to play a vital part in this with our vintage buses.

A preserved Routemaster is a repository of social and personal history on wheels. It may have been built at a fixed point in time and worked on certain verifiable routes long, long ago but then it will loom out of the past – a big red, benign friend – and move us in unexpected ways.

In what turned out to be our final trip before lockdown, what could be better than Ben & Neil’s wedding on the bus on March 14 in Holyrood Park?

They brought their magic to Edinburgh from the other side of the world and now, three weeks and 42 shows later, Java Dance Theatre are on their way back to New Zealand. From the cab it was wonderful to see blank, wary or even grumpy punters board the bus then get off an hour later with smiles on their faces, dancing in the cobbled street…