Vicar Jane is leaving St Oswalds in July after our 750th anniversary celebration , not really sure about the score but the consensus is that the BCP brigade have won the day, I'm just a bystander these days as they players still batter one another in what should be an atmosphere of Godliness but more a gladiatorial contest. Anyway that can be put to one side as we heard that Mandy's cousin Trish has had a fall and cracked bones in her lower back, sounds painful, hopefully she'll soon be moved from Wythenshawe to Trafford hospital nearer home. I've not finished all the DVD covers for my resent Asia trip and started to put them on the PMP shop. I've started packing up my models ready for the new PMP showroom, after the builders the shelves will need fitting throughout and the computers migrated to their new work station not to mention the hubs and routers extended next door.

Business is still quiet as it is everywhere with Brexit handing over us even if it has moved out of the headlines recently. With the suspension of revenue on Youtube for no good reason it makes it good to stand back and take stock. Really as nothing we do makes a profit regarding the transport hobby then it is just an indulgence and given all the time it takes perhaps I should just enjoy it for what it is and give up with the constant filming. Shots from Doncaster last week.

We had a 4am start on Friday, a pretty good journey down to Sussex stopping at the services south of Gatwick for breakfast and then to Eastbourne. It was sunny to start with, Mandy sat close to the car on the promenade and had a cruise down in the wheelchair to the pier while I was filming. Eastbourne town centre has been turned upside down for road works all happening at the same time and goodness knows how locals have coped, strange to see it going on into the start of the tourist season. I got some new perspectives on the buses with temporary bus stops scattered around and even though the weather became bitterly cold and cloudy this itself helped get the film finished then we could meet up and make arrangements for lunch before heading down to the crematorium and the family funeral at 2.30 pm. I'm glad we went it was a lovely service remembering a good, kind man who loved music and nature and was be trade a joiner. Spent some time chatting with his daughter Amanda and revealing a few family stories. We had an ok journey back until we were nearly home on the M6 when it was suddenly announced it was shut, 10pm became nearly midnight only 10 mins drive from base. How annoying and tiring.

Youtube has struck us again, the revenue on the Youtube advertising again suspended this time for reuse, which seems to mean that someone else has used our videos and we are now guilty of listing them, trying to get it all unraveled but seriously it takes a lot of work putting the clips on Youtube and this erratic and strange behaviour does nothing for stability in our business and enabling the PMP archive to continue. By early summer it should all be back on track, it always seems to revolve around the archive material which I've taken off the net which is a shame particularly for our overseas friends and of course those who enjoy our golden oldie tram and trolleybus shots from the many collections we own and are gradually being digitised and passed to the Online archive, another journey down in April with 20 reels to deposit and hopefully pick up some for review with bus scenes. Good news in the post the company pension has shot up yet again, so glad I picked the higher rate of premium each month, paid off well as long as I don't pop my clogs too soon!

This morning after the briefest lay ins we were up and off to top up Mandys now depleted fuel and then to Ellesmere Port where we had our ministry course group  catch up, all but one were thre although smaller numbers have met up over the past months. I'm just burning the last of the Asia trip DVDs and then need to get the remainder of the covers made and then I can start on the recent bus visits. I've updated the DVD list, still nothing on the shop but it will happen. I've nearly emptied the garage now, trips to the tip scheduled for tomorrow and also treated the front lawn for moss and reseeded as well as replacing the flowers in the front door trough and topping up all the bird feeders. I'v got all my tools in order back in the racks they came from now relocated in the garage/shed move. This week I'll start on boxing up all my models. Good weather forecast so I hope for some bus visits around Easter time although we'll stay close to home at the bank holidays as the roads will be at a standstill. Shots from Eastbourne yesterday

After a hectic day yesterday the freshly mowed grass was white with frost this morning but nearly a cloudless sky all day. First I went to the dentist at Partington to get the new crown fitted, I was in and out within about 20 minutes then back home, dropped off the PMP post then it was time to head off to the Wirral for the Cheshire and Wirral branch of the Polio Fellowship annual meal. It was spot on other than an armour plated Yorkshire pudding, washed it down with a lovely local beer, well two actually. We got home late afternoon, got the DVD orders ready, Malcolm and June over the road will bring our milk in tomorrow as we shall be on the road by 4.30am. We have a funeral down at Eastbourne in Sussex on the south coast, where I grew up. I'm hoping to get some bus filming done there in the morning as I missed Eastbourne out last year.

I've nearly finished making all the DVDs from the Asian trip in March, just burning the master DVD for the first of two long running DVDs on the narrow gauge railway which connects KK with Tenom. 3ft 6" gauge, the only railway line in Borneo. In four hours you'll be experiencing the reality close up with cab views and rear shots at the highest area where it shadows a river complete with rapids and boulders. After I get that finished it will be a dash to get Tunbridge Wells, Detling, Brooklands, Sheffield and Doncaster done as well as anything I get in Sussex. We are there and back the same day as we have a reunion of our ministry course group, hopefully we'll all be together first the first time in a year and very appropriate as we approach Easter. Saturday afternoon after the meet up I want to get the front lawn sorted, moss killer, aerated and new seed down, all lawns on sandy soil suffered in the prolonged heat last summer.

Mandy will drop any DVD orders off at the post office Saturday morning. I've just loaded some more material from Borneo on Youtube. Next week I'm be trying to get this material on the shops and start the digital download versions, all takes such precious time , it has been agony seeing these sunny days go by with nothing produced but we have to catch up eventually! Hopefully next blog Saturday evening, no probs missing pub night at The Crown as it is still being refurbished, open next week. I'm also going down to take more films to the Online Archive at Shrewsbury  after Easter and hopefully picking up some bus material to review, perhaps for the first time in many years. Also had a bit of a random conversation on Perrys Movies an old cine producer, a family member has died and there may be some bits of interest coming our way. Life is never boring here! Remember we are no longer active on Facebook or Twitter and comments are no longer possible on Youtube other than older uploads, the percentage of bad stuff is very small be upsetting, more relaxing without it!  Here are shots from Sheffield .

Very busy all round today here are the covers for the latest of the Asian trip films, I've just got Borneo to complete. Mandy found someone to fix her car after scraping the pillar on the drive. I got the bathroom light fixed, sorted the handle on Mandys dresser, got the upstairs loo roll holder fixed ( for good I hope) then got almost all the remaining stuff in the garage ready to tip, to put on the shelving unit I moved to the new shed, got the tool shelving / drawers installed in the greenhouse. The garage is almost clear, next step then is to get all the models boxed up. Here are the covers for the latest DVDs which still need adding to the shop!

I think it has taken three attempts to get Sheffield filmed for 2019 but today worked well and no hassles although the street life seems to grow even more prolific and then on to Doncaster where it was sunny and fine for getting the buses on the roundabout, miss the old bus station though, lots of hassles here as befits South Yorkshire but lots of waves from the bus drivers so they once again save the day, even saw a First in the old livery not so many of those about now. Not sure about tomorrow but I don't want to go too far away. I'm still editing the Taiwan film, I'm on the thrird of four DVDs covering the docks, lots to go on Youtube perhaps tonight. Meanwhile back to Manila for our slide show.

I hope you are enjoying our double dose of blogs for today, I've had a really exhausting day first clearing all the DVD orders received over the past few days and orders received at Detling and Cobham rallies. Then it was time to do some food shopping with Mandy and around this was the continued process of getting the Asia trip DVDs made and covers prepared. I'm now half way through the Taiwan visits. I'm hopimng to find time this evening to make the complaint to the Brunei police over the Brunei hotel which scammed Martin out of ariound £150 and Booking Com seem no to be complicit in the fraud. I'm asking our MP Esther McVey to get their tax affairs on UK earnings investigated, their whol business seems to stink and they are reviled in the trade just as Amazon dominate many areas of retail and dodge taxes . Tonights pictures are from Manila in the Philipines and are mostly taken at the docks, tomorrow some Jeepney shots. There are a whole range of paratransit types of vehicles, various vans and lorries as well as full size and mini buses plus the more well known types like the jeepney.

As well as my other chores I made a start on getting the new shed filled and our garage emptied in readiness for the conversion to the PMP showroom and new office. I'm looking at the weather this week, free days are tomorrow and Wednesday should any weather suit our target locations for filming.

Photo by John from Guanzhou as we await the next of the latest Hong Kong buses at Mongkok East interchange in March the day after my birthday! Next some shots taken last Friday in Tunbridge Wells.

A glorious day today, clear blue sky and warm (ish) we could have handled a bit of that over the weekend. I'm finishing the last of the Hong Kong docks DVDs then I'll move on the Taiwan trucks and light rail etc.

Three hours back home from Brooklands wasn't bad for a Sunday evening, just about to have a flan and beans for dinner. Met lots of lovely people, friends, customers even relations!  This comment of course applies to both Detling and Brooklands plus we had a great day filming at Tunbridge Wells on Friday. Loads of material to emerge from the Asia trip in due course and I've edited three of four truck films on Hong Kong Docks these and others will be on the PMP shop soonest. So any enjoyable weekend and we had two super hotels in Kent and Surrey. Back to the grindstone editing hopefully after a bit of a lay in tomorrow morning. As I've so much material to get through I'll treat you to both rallies this evening.

At Deting it rained nearly all day, thankfully I film the vehicles arriving, the least wet part of the day whereas Brooklands the forcaste thunder and rain never happened and despite freezing in the museum the temperature outside had risen. Two great days which obviously took a tremendous effort to organise.

The recent Asian trip has had a bad aftermath as the Brunei Hotel and Booking Com had conspired to defraud my traveling companion of not a fortune but a substantial sum, rather than admit an error and rectify it both parties have come up with some utter tripe about what payments have been made. Thankfully we have all the documentation and a photo of the staff involved which has been passed to the Brunei police, after the bad publicity the country has suffered in the past few days it is amazing they pursue this type of behaviour. I have now completed all the Hong Kong bus DVDs and about to start on the Hong Kong dock truck films. Tomorrow we go down to Kent, filming we hope at Tunbridge Wells then Detling rally Saturday and the Brooklands gathering in Surrey on Sunday. We will have just one copy of each DVD so if they sell at Detling they wont be at Brooklands. If you want anything putting aside you have a couple of hours left to ring us. We are loading the usual clip tralers on Youtube for the Asia trip.

We return to the trip and now bring you photos from Brunei, yes such happy memories ( not).