I'm amending the notice which was in the church porch about death watch beetle and woodworm to warn of the current need for funds to combat these enemies! Handed over the full size picture files from the walk last Thursday, Jane is joining us this Wednesday as we move on from Congleton to Leek, my guess is that it must start to get more of an ascent as we head into the Peak District. The weather is overcaste and muggy, looking ahead at possible locations for filming, our East Anglia trip next week may still be on, it's a bit dull for truck filming. Lets have some shots from Dunfermiline on Saturday when it was blowing an absolute gale all day.
A hectic day catching up from the weekend which saw us leave Friday morning still wading through the material I had filmed in Ukraine earlier that wee. I had a meeting with St Oswald's architect and fellow church warden etc to discuss the latest incremental work from our erstwhile builder of the new toilet and store block. We met our next door neighbour for perhaps only the third time but I guess we are all very busy people. We went to Ellesmere Port, I got a haircut, picked up bird food, did some food shopping at M&S and called at B&Q to get a set of shifting spanners prompted mainly by the toilet handle at St Oswalds which has come loose yet again. I attended to the wood worm at the church, several areas certainly infested other might be, treated all with fingers crossed. I'm amending the notice which was in the church porch about death watch beetle and woodworm to warn of the current need for funds to combat these enemies! Handed over the full size picture files from the walk last Thursday, Jane is joining us this Wednesday as we move on from Congleton to Leek, my guess is that it must start to get more of an ascent as we head into the Peak District. The weather is overcaste and muggy, looking ahead at possible locations for filming, our East Anglia trip next week may still be on, it's a bit dull for truck filming. Lets have some shots from Dunfermiline on Saturday when it was blowing an absolute gale all day. Arrived home a bit late to blog last night but we had a pleasant if quiet day on the Sunday at Lathalmond bus museum in Fire, Scotland. There seemed to be numerous friends of our there up from England. I've a meeting at 10.30 and haven't even had a brew yet so we can kick off the day with a photo selection of the open weekend and then catch up again this evening with some more shots. It's been a very windy day and although it threatened to rain many times it never amounted to much. We set up on Friday evening and we had a fairly leisurely start today, breakfast at eight am then dropped Mandy at the bus museum and I headed up to Dundee. It was very fresh but mainly bright, the new livery of sort of green or camouflage olive doesn't do much for the national express fleet when is now branded explore Dundee, perhaps they are doing it on the quiet and don't want the buses seen. Really I can't recall a bus fleet go downhill so fast, the look is quite disgusting. It seemed to be a bit on the quiet side but I managed to get an hour of film and then took the road back south but encountered an accident which soaked up about thirty minutes and then an hour in road works getting from the motorway into Dunfermline. To say it was windy at the bus station is a bit of an understatement, it was hard even with the substantial manfrotto tripod. By the time I got back to Mandy at the museum it was time to have a cuppa and a piece of cake before returning to our digs with pat and Norman. Takings were well down on last year which seemed an upward trend destined to be short lived. Lots of stands missing and buses a bit thin in the ground, I'll film at lathalmond tkmorrow. We'll drop off at our new favourite pub down on the Lancashire border on the way home but will be up on Monday ready to clear dvd orders and go to a meeting with the architect reference the church toilet which still rumbles on in the background.. I'm going to try and fit in some time attending to the woodworm there, really film trips are going to be weather dependent, Wednesday is a walking day.
We didn't get up too early this morning as I was still pretty shattered after the walk on Thursday but it should I mean that I'm getting hardened up a bit ready for next Wednesday. We are now in Fife ready for the lathalmond bus museum open weekend, the weekend started off fine with a a stop at Galashiels which is my first visit to the now open new transport interchange and surprisingly busy although mostly clutches of buses every thirty minutes. Then we headed east to Berwick which is again mainly borders buses although none were I fleet livery unlike Galashiels where many looked smart in the West coast style colour scheme. Very friendly at both locations.then we headed up a to fife but stick in the Friday afternoon rush hour at the forth road bridge thus arrived late to set up. I'm hoping to get to Dundee a in the morning possibly followed by Dunfermline. We had dinner at the Hideaway restaurant near our digs which saves gravelling, well established there again tomorrow it's some of the best food we've had here locally over the past few years.Click
The latest long distance fund raising walk started today from St Oswalds at Lower Peover and took us to Congleton via Swettenham where we had a couple of leisurely glasses of beer and a snack before resuming the walk to Congleton railway station. There were 4 of us walking in this the precursor to the main event early September. Here are some scenes along the way, as I was behind the camera there are few of me! I've only put in those in landscape format I need to turn the upright ones around but time is so shot. Meanwhile lets go back to Ukraine where we pick up with a side trip to Ivano Frankivsk. Then it was on to Vinnystsia where I met up with my pal Martin. Don't forget we are at Lathalmond bus museum this weekend, we travel up tomorrow. Lots of bargain stock, new stock and of course all our Scottish material Mandy was at Gatwick to meet me and we then drove back up to Cheshire and got to bed about 2am, needless to say we were both a little jaded this morning. We've got all the post sorted and I cleared all outstanding business and went out to mow the lawns and tidy up the garden, the cool damp weather had seen the grass shoot up. I also had to top up all the bird feeders, not a scrap left in them. I got a knock back on my Irish passport application, I need to get Jim put on my birth certificate and they still want his birth cert which I've tried for years to get, a bit of a piss off really as I asked if I had what was required and they just sent the link to the application and took the fee and for the second time never responded, now it's like day one all over again! Our friend Ged rang about getting the walking days in from Lower Peover to the start of the St Oswald pilgrimage in September, we are on go for tomorrow so that's a bit of a surprise, we'll have to get all my walking kit out and get my nails trimmed and any hard skin removed then get them covered in lotion before socks on time, we are doing Lower Peover to Congleton about 13 miles then next week the other two days to get us up into Derbyshire. There will be four or five of us and Mandy will as ever supply logistical support, aka a ride home, probably stop for lunch at the Swetty Arrms, nearly poisoned me last time we went there. I've got all the Ukraine video downloaded and the Lviv DVD is already done, I've also been downloading and trimming up the photos from the trip. We are on a dieting day, so it will be nice to have fresh fruit. It's freezing cold here in Cheshire, 34 when we left Kiev last night. Lets get going with the photos, we can have two sets to kick off with first Lviv, this was the day they had lost my luggage all I had was what I'd traveled in and the deluge was like a monsoon. Later in the afternoon and went to the airport and forced them to look for my case which I knew had been sent on the first Warsaw to Lviv flight of the day. My first side outing when I got to Lutsk was on to Rivne one of my favourite locations visited, the Skoda 9Tr trolleys were the obvious attraction but all in all a very nice town Greetings readers world wide and tomorrow we'll be back in action editing the film's from this fantastic Ukraine trip and getting ready for our trip up to lathalmind museum in Scotland not on the tail from that will be a visit to barcelona. It's gone hot again in Kiev with 34 at the airport this afternoon. The business lounge started a off well with a charming young lady incharge but it's gone downhill with plastic cheese and a sullen led at the bar. Generally Ukraine offers great service and fantastic food, it was a pity our end of trip evening went wrong with the tram coming off the tracks. Mandy has driven all the way down to Gatwick a to collect me and has had an afternoon visit to the national trust at polsden lady which I think is near dorking. We had a package returned by one of these funny sort of pick up stuff addresses sayingwuite curtly that they haven't received their order which is about annoying as it had just been sent back by a the post office as ,gone away,. I've been catching up on the Ukraine trick scene today and have a great selection of shots which will add two videos to our collection and both are firsts for our Ukraine section. Martin left earlier today, we ended up late last night at the ibis eatery having a snack but e are already considering another Ukraine trip next year, photos tkmorrowClick
Its very late so a brief blog. I?l be home late tomorrow so expect nothing other than from the lounge at the Kiev airport. I've just checked a in hopefully the boarding card will have been printed off at the reception tonight. We went for a ride on route 15 which is over an hour passing through woodland north west of Kiev a to a village turning circle. On the way back a tram left the rails and we had about two and a half hours while they got the works units out with crane by a then it was almost totally dark. I got some great footage which I'll put on YouTube. They did manage to fix it for the moment but there are more of rotten sleepers and rails with no fixings at all. Really I assume accidents happen almost daily it's in a terrible state of reoait. Martin and I this lost he opportunity for since I end of tropical and had something to eat before bed in the know where we are stsying. We had a great day pretty well venturing as explained it last nihht. I've seen a quite good truck til into road to east of city and I'm going to try that tomorrow. Today we saw slot of the trams but there are still a few types o the rush hour services I haven't filmed a and intend ticking these off in the morning rush hour then carrying on via the metro from the station easy to last but one station which hopefully will put a me in the midst of the lorries! Lots of interesting older types and Russian machines about. The trams are mainly fairly run down although there are options of new ones as well. Cards are very cheap and revenue from that must be minimal. I'll try and cat h you all before I return, loads of pictures to show you.
A s of course I the intense heat which reminded me of Cyprus a few weeks back any effort comes at a price.
Sorry Weebly web site is being a wobbly again and paragraphs and sentences are going s our a bit scrambled, it I just he the best agsin. Several litres a of water,ice tea, water not to mention plenty of ice creams consumed as we explored a location which offered great lightjng for photogrslhy plus a very varied trolleybus fleet which cintwins two of the oldest ziu,s still runnjng in ukrsjne. plendidrovincial town of Zhitomir around two a hours away by bus. It was easy to get to grips with this location many of the trolleybus services can download the central road through town I and intersected the one tram liine. The bus there and back was more comfortable than any travelled on hitherto. Tomorrow we are visiting various locations at major junction's on the tram and trolleybus networks. We can get between them by metro, there a shop two mins from the hotel which is compact but offers night time silence and helpful enough staff. It's fast approaching midnight here in Kiev after meeting up with my friend Martin in Vinnitsa this morning. We came back by train which is a much more relaxed and smoothe ride but getting tickets makes bus travel amuch easier option.. the weather is still extremely hot with 37 degrees early this evening. Tomorrow is due to be the hottest day yet then temperatures are set to tumble early next week. It was great I. Vinnytsya with its old Zurich fleet but we failed to see the vin car tram which I had spotted yesterday. Com the 20th July half the tram system has not been operational, well we guessed what the notice said but the tracks and lack of prospective passengers have the game away and well as the scribbled notice. The troodos were with ziu,s or newer bogdans or similar lots had been refurbished, the light just to be slot on for most of our visit. Tomorrow see are doing the side trip from Kiev to zhitamir. Well as I said it's time to get some sleep, good having Martin on board someone to share the exprriences with is of course great. Last night's hotel was very good and we are now at the ibis in the centre of the city. Great food yet again this evening's
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