Asked why he did it, the busman would explain: "This New York traffic gets you.
The music was news to us – it was for ballroom dancing!" recalls former busman George Burton as he explains how he and four work colleagues set up a pioneering Manchester nightclub in the late 1960s for West Indian immigrants.
"The point needs to be stressed, though," says Hendy, a professional busman who once enjoyed his own spell of driving Routemasters, "is that these are design ideas and not the actual buses you will see on London streets in the next few years.
mrvikkis.co.uk KF Following on from René Redzepi taking the Noma team to Tokyo's Mandarin Oriental for a busman's holiday, another cutting-edge Scandinavian chef, Magnus Nilsson of Fäviken, has decided to close his restaurant, Fäviken, in Järpen, Sweden, for 20 weeks a year.
Now that he has had just over 100 days in office (including a hyperactive busman's holiday in New Hampshire), it is a good time to take stock of where all this energy may be leading.A useful place to start is with that holiday.
Those virtues have scarcely diminished, despite the Springboks' four-year flirtation with the Japanese club rugby scene following the 2011 World Cup in All Black country – not quite a busman's holiday, but indisputably a more restful existence than the endless slogs around the Super Rugby beat that would have been his lot had he stayed in Pretoria and continued playing for the Blue Bulls.
Recorded at that band's Battle Born studio in Las Vegas, this is an album which, with its soaring power pop and radio-friendly rock tunes, brings to mind figures of speech about busman's holidays or apples that don't fall far from the tree.
Miliband described watching political dramas and comedies as a "busman's holiday" and said the last thing that made him really laugh was watching LGBT film Pride, "which made me laugh and cry at the same time".
Weekends and short breaks, however, are permitted and we've planned a number of busman's holidays to gardens and nurseries in the spirit of CPD (Continuous Personal Development) and, if I'm honest, as a distraction from the fact that we have lost what little control we had at our allotment during our recent Chelsea stint.
The man we see in these eleven interviews is a person made of books, a librarian who often remarked that his idea of paradise was an endless library — a sort of eternal busman's holiday.
