Always great to see the back,of a Tory prime minister this one was as bad as Cameroons who created the mess, May took on a cause she detested just to become prime minister. The chances are a Tory elected leader will be worse than May and polarise the country around the extremes. I would guess that results from the EU election Sunday night will demonstrate the drift to the extreme candidates, there were parties and people on the ballot paper who I had never heard of. Perhaps if Lord Sutch was still screaming the Monster Raving Luney Party would have said its time had come.

I popped up to Lymm services this morning and got a swift DVD worth of film but of course there is so much happening this weekend that I've had to concentrate obn getting ready or Morecambe. I've got lots of the new DVD rerady and all the recent DVD releases are in stock. I'll be filming the Stagecoach running/open day and then in the evening setting up the PMP stand at the football stadium ready for the main Sunday event although the weather outlook isn't that good. Thankfully we shall be inside.

I've edited two of the DVDs from the five lots of film we took in Kent and Sussex, already done but no cover at the moment is Canterbury and Dover docks. next will be Brighton, then Crawley and finally Ashford and Folkestone. We thought for a short while that I'd lost the memory card with the Ashford and Folkestone fiolm but after searching high and low it was in Mandys car  boot.  Lets keep it simple tonight and concentrate on the Kent scenes as we move to Folkestone and then Ashford. On Monday we'll be starting to get the new showroom ready for the arrival of the computer corner desk and start to move editing to the new location then put all the tape media cabinets down the side of the room, the large display cases will then be constructed above them, about 11 ft long. The other side will be shallower cabinets but 18ft long.

I've done quite a bit of gardening, the back garden has never looked so good in late spring but its very dry. We finished delivering the leaflets for decorate a gate in commemoration of 750 years of Lower Peover church, St Oswalds. I've painted the gate we are using in the front island border and also tidied up the bird bath whiole I had the paint out.

We are now busy getting lots of lovely copies of the 120 minutes Bus Spot Ultra Lancaster ( with Morecambe) ready for the official launch at the Ribble 100 rally at Morecambe football ground on Sunday. We shall be inside so even if the weather breaks you can come and get your copy and take a look at the many other recent releases from the PMP Film Archive. If you want to be 100% sure of your copy of the Lancaster DVD why not ask beforehand and I'll put one aside or you will find it is already on the PMP shop. Lots of domestic tasks completed today, its pub night but I'll try and make a start on editing the new films from Kent and Sussex. After Canterbury we carried on to Dover dock and nearby and this provides tonights slide show.

We are busy making copies of the Lancaster Bus Spot DVD and getting recent sales stock updated and all in the van ready to set up, in addition to present day stock we'll have the amazing stock clearance sale with 5 DVDs for just £20 from the special selection. Remember you can buy the past years output on digital downloads at just £8 each.

Missed us over the past two days? We've been down in Kent and Sussex and have material for 5 new DVDs featuring Canterbury, Dover Docks for trucks, Folkestone and Ashford, Brighton and Crawley. First today I'm editing the final parts of the new Bus Spot Ultra on Lancaster ready to launch at Ribble 100 on Sunday at Morecambe and then get the cover done and make a start on all the new programmes, hopefully they will all be ready for the weekend. We'll be out and about with the camera on the Saturday for the Stagecoach open day and then setting up Saturday evening at the football ground ready for the rally on Sunday thus giving us maximum time to soak up the atmosphere and get the best never to be repeated shots at the rally and running day at what promises to be a terrific weekend. I see there are a couple of reruns of the event in the Lakes and at Heaton Park later on. The weather looks dry Saturday but showers on Sunday thankfully we are under cover and no tent to put up. If you want to be certain of picking up the new Bus Spot best give me an email as I'm only bringing 20 copies along and if its like the Big Orange at Boyle St they'll sell out on the day although they'll be on the shop plus the digital download at just £8. Great to see so many people are now using this facility. I'll give you two slide shos today with another one this evening. Shots of the new showroom before anything went in and after the carpet was laid.

Photos from Canterbury

The carpet fitters were here reasonably early this morning, the new showroom looks much more room like than a garage especially with carpet, I did take a photo but I've put the camera away ready for packing in Mandys car very early tomorrow morning as we are heading down to Kent and Sussex for a couple of days and hopefully will get some more locations off our to do list and eliminate Kent for this years and ditto much of Sussex. We'll get down to IOW and Hampshire later probably mixing it in with a family visit. We have gone through a lot of material in the office and had a big clear out, anything we need to retain will go to the attic and a lot will go to the security shredders

. I've got all the digital downloads up to date with latest releases, all DVD orders are in the post. We'll be sorting the next batches on Thursday morning and I'm looking for possible truck filming on Friday. Then its the Ribble celebrations at the weekend and more work on the office on Bank Holiday Monday. I'm compiling bus spot ultra on Morecambe and Lancaster , nearly got all the material on the timeline, need to prune it down to two hours though. The phone has hardly stopped ringing today, lots of people, no nuisance calls thank goodness just friends and customers. Next blog on Thursday as we won't be back until late Wednesday and doing it on the ipad seldom seems to work in the UK. Here are some shts from West Bromwich last week.

Two days of hell updating the external shops, just got to get the rest of the digital uploads ready on Weebly shop. The Amazon ones took ages as they had changed the upload spreadsheet so much that it was a challenge even finding the new format which took two days, finally cracked it Sunday lunchtime and have just added the cover photos to complete. My left big toe is still very painful from arthritis and both Mandy and my own knees are similarly affected. The carpets for the new showroom get fitted tomorrow morning, we've been to B&Q to get more decorating supplies plus ant powder, there are zillions of the blighters in the garden.

We were at Clonter Opera last night for their spring gala, a very good cast and the food was a great improvement on past efforts but how they would cope with greater numbers dining I don't know. All in all a great effort with many of the production team and cast from the RNCM in Manchester. With the shops mainly updated which was my target for the weekend we are now faced with making a decision on this weeks proposed London film trip with the Irish trip always on our minds as well Talk about weather dependent, I also like to get things done before the school holidays. The only thing hanging over us now is the Youtube decision if we get our funding back from advertising after they took exception to having the old archive films on our monitised channel. I think they still prefer terrorist, blood and gore to hobby material. As promised some more shots from the West Midlands trip starting with Dudley in the rain.

Weebly just struck again the 'sign in' box popped up and wiped out all of todays blog as I was just finishing it. I can't go back now as time is too tight. I was in Dudley, nice Ensign driver told me about his Brexit bus round the corner which I'd spotted coming in to town, I got a good near side of it, shame about the cause it supports. Nigel Ferrari was due there later.

I got the first I've seen of the WMPTE commemorative liveried buses at Dudley plus lots of their new deckers in service.

Staying with that theme a really new one which hadn't entered service as yet was the last bus I snapped at West Brom

Normal slide show tomorrow, Diamond who rate as the pits in the UK bus world show their new look no eyes exit from the West Brom bus station, wouldn't have noticed the driver if it hadn't been for the lunatic driving! Got the rest of my bedding plants in when I got home and received the chrome grab rail for the steps to the new showroom, will fit it tomorrow.

A delightfully educational, informative and enjoyable perk at the RNCM for the Principle's Circle members was another of the masterclass sessions opened to us. After the fairly lengthy sessions we had tea and biscuits in Brodskys restaurant. We are still waiting to see how the weather turns out for June as to whether we can get to the end of term concert at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, they have kindly reserved a place just in case. When we got home there were several jobs to catch up with and then it was off to the school for St Oswalds pcc session. Jane Lloyd the vicar is leaving soon and there will be an interregnum, it seems likely that our parish will be wrapped up with some of the other 7 local parishes which have no priest at present. One of the only good things is that our parish share would be likely to fall considerably, that's the cash we have to turn over to the dioceses to cover the incumbents salary, alas this is still payable until a replacement or alternative arrangement is made.

It has been as hectic as ever, the car didn't get finished until this afternoon as it needed a few things sorting from brake pads and fluid through to a new tyre, tracking etc, thankfully there was some spare cash floating around as we made arrangements to take up this years ISA allocation, no wonder not 'everyone' gets the benefit of all the financial options as even with the money getting the different accounts and through the security can be very daunting especially as you get older and you forget passwords and the like. I did all the gloss painting in the new office, not a lot to see on a picture but in reality it looks much more a 'finished' room and the carpet will be fitted next Monday. I'm looking at the weather and film options for tomorrow so still not sure what if anything will get done. I'd like to have a special DVD ready for the Ribble 100 events the next weekend. Lots of things depend on the weather, a possibility is a couple of days filming in London next week. Meanwhile some shots from Glasgow.

An exhausting day out productive and we met a friend at Glasgow and had a meal at a favoutite pub near Kirkby Lonsdale on the way home. We had to take my IQ in for its 70k service , well pick it up first thing tomorrow. We've now vacced out the new showroom and washed the floor in readiness for me to start the gloss paintwork and we can then get the carpet delivered and fitted. Next will be moving in the media cabinets which the large display cabinets will sit on. I'm hoping to reuse the old cabinets to a large extent with the shelving resized and glass fronts as shelves. I need to get a new drill with cutting and rebate facility for all the work I'll have to do. Along the line we'll bring in the models from the dining room still boxed and then empty the original office put in extra shelf units and redecorate as well as fitting the units from the editing suite which is really the third bedroom and will in turn be redecorated as such. We need to buy the two new racking/shelf units and two new computer corner desks.

The trip to Scotland was nearly delayed by the M6 closure but thankful we were off and back on quite quickly unlike the south bound which had a few miles of backed up traffic trapped and a 20 mile diversion route through small villages. It took ages to get into Edinburgh but I was soon filming, time was really rushing by and the light perfect and temperature as warm as it gets in those parts, a lot easier and faster trip over to Glasgow, masses more new buses and liveries, really amazing session at the bus station could have stayed there for hours, there is always something different popping up every few minutes and bus action almost continuous.

We'll get the DVD orders ready to post on our way out, attending masterclasses at the RNCM this afternoon then back in time to go to the church pcc this evening. Not sure what will happen tomorrow perhaps do the gloss painting and try for filming somewhere Friday, next week was put aside for Scotland, perhaps if weather fair we could have a couple of days filming in London. Pictures from Ediburgh yesterday morning.

Covers for the latest DVD releases

I managed to get the two ends of the new showroom painted in a rather attractive light grey which we may well use for the bedroom, the old office will certainly be the same colour. The rest of the showroom will mainly be showcases so left white for the present. This all took a good few hours but I managed to get digital uploads done while I was working in my overalls. I've now put in the request for the Youtube monetisation  once more, lets see if they are looking at buses and trucks any more favourably, I'm not counting on it at all though. We are going to to Scotland tomorrow just for the day and covering Glasgow and Edinburgh , stopping off on the way back at the Plough inn where they do the most delightful desserts, near Kirby Lonsdale. I will be making more transport film trips later in the week, destinations to be decided when the weather becomes clear.  I need to update the shops on Amazon and Ebay but you can get everything you want on this site so why use them. Last set of photo selections from the Co Durham trip with Durham itself.

I've put off the next round of painting in the new room until Monday as it was such a beautiful day I thought I'd get the outside jobs done so after church we went to Fryers garden centre and got enough bedding to fill the side path which still has some very nice looking violas left from last autumn. Then a round of weeding, feeding, watering etc and up on the ladder to the flat roofs and sprinkling with a mix of washing up liquid and bleach to kill the possible bloom of algae and out of the small front bedroom over the porch roof which has moss, the only moss on the house other than the garden wall. 

The DVD orders are all ready to go off in the post, still waiting for the Youtube ok to reapply for monetisation  it is due today but there is a substantial time lag, it then requires a human review ( are there such things in Youtube) if they don't have a hang up about trucks and buses perhaps well get back on in a month and that then mean two months before any revenue.

It has been very quiet and PMP is ticking over at quite a loss at present having said that our resources are good and all planned trips will go ahead and that includes Jordan and Indonesia if  we have the time and if friend Sue is recovered enough after back surgery to take on Indonesia. The August Ukraine trip is 100% certain. Ireland is just waiting for a week with no commitments and good weather, a couple of options penciled in already. I've filed away all the remaining Truckfest  photo files plus the North East trip from last week I must get some on Smugmug. Shots from Middlesbrough on Friday