A hot sunny day just right for catching up on Coventry and Stratford upon Avon, the latter for Diamond after taking after Jonhsons. We got stuck in traffic coming back up M6, stranded lorry in third lane of four, then the real culprit a wagon gone over taking the Stoke entrance northbound too fast, its an horrendous curve but he has caused chaos, I think the stranded lorry was the icing on an unwanted cake! The computer is still eating up the transfer to back up of the first drive full of scanned cine, I still haven't got the OTA copy of more recent scans back but I'm sure I'll need to re scan several which were on one the the extension drives which got zapped. I've partly solved one mystery or at least identified it, the new computer with 13 usb ports only has a few which take over 38GB, all very strange. Anyway here are some shots at Coventry this morning.

Does anyone actually read these blogs and enjoy looking at the photos I post, perhaps it is a task I could cut out as I'm so short of time.

I should have these on the shop this evening. Tomorrow we hope to visit Coventry and Stratford upon Avon for Diamond takeover of Johnsons. I'm copying our first drive of scanned cine on to second back up as the other failed, picked up a Seagate from Argos.

I thought today that rather than a liturgy of woes from the failed extension drives I would cut quickly to the material I filmed last week and feature Eastbourne the town I grew up in.  I had written the intercession prayers for church this morning which seemed to find favour with the congregation at least. We had a lovely lad priest from not too far away cover for the communion services, our thoughts now are on the village fete, we have to tent being used and I will be MC of the event. I need to order the NAS drive assembly from Chillblast, they should be able to configure it to the computer they supplied. This will give back ups in the event of disc failure although I still need to copy what I have to NAS when I get it and this only really provides a short term solution and long term perhaps DVD discs are a good idea albeit limited in the amount of storage they provide. Anyway lots of jobs, Mandy's car to get repaired, services etc. Meanwhile Eastbourne last week.

Before a brew the news and bed a first glimpse of photos from lasts weeks trip which by now most will know was tweaked due to two hours lost in 10 mile M40 jam on our way down. We shall backfill the Kent trip at a future date so we lead with Crawley.

A very annoying day, why is everything for computers so difficult and fraught with changes which are hidden. I won't bore you with details but is has been a difficult morning all round especially as I had worked so hard to get us in a position to do some garden jobs before we head off down to Hampshire via Kent and Sussex. Anyway here is another batch of photos from the Gaydon weekend.

I knew today was going to be busy, we had a lot of DVD orders to get sent out. Then I had the back log of editing to do, 7 DVDs, just one more Gaydon to go and all the DVD covers are made. I'll be loading all the Youtube clips this evening and all the items should be on the PMP shop by tomorrow latest. I'm working against a deadline of leaving for the south of England on Wednesday. LV insurance have been helpful in getting the damage process underway, no forms just a phone call. The chap who did it phoned through his company insurance details and Enterprise hire is even ready with a hand control kit in readiness for a hire car. Anyway I'm still bouncing through the jobs  and here are the new films. I'm also scanning while I'm editing but had a bitch of a reel today with several dry joints in the cine.

What would have been a spot on weekend at Gaydon classic and vintage lorry show only spoilt by a BMW company car driver reversing into Mandy's car, he accepted full responsibility and blame and was upset to have been caught reversing while setting his sat nav and as he said he didn't see us as he was looking at the sat nav. Hopefully we'll get the remainder of his details tomorrow as it was a company car.. The turn out at Gaydon was I thought good all things considered although it took everything centred around the new car parks and slopes to make it look fullish, gone the steel boys up the top and gone the vans over on the high grassed area, the few tractors and stationery engines also in the centre of things so quite a compact area but some superb vehicles.

I picked up my new Midland Red buses from Roy Finney, they all look very smart. I will give him another order to be picked up next year. We sold a lot of the bargain old display DVDs and had one large box less to bring home. The hotel at Warwick university conference centre was not bad, nice meal shame about shower over bath and the car park incident. We have already put everything away and tidied up, a quick flan and beans and then bed after we catch the news. There are quite a lot of DVD orders to be sent off. Then I need to get 7 DVDs edited and covers made plus still trying to keep up with the cine film scanning. Wednesday I'll be filming in sunny Kent and Sussex plus Southampton through to Thursday teatime meeting my pal John Bishop at Polgate for a meal Wednesday night.

The car is just about ready for Gaydon, we'll be up at 5.30 and leave at 6am which should see us on site before 8am although it will already be a bit of a scrum getting the stock in. There is just one sort of thing we shall have , very cheap lorry films at £10 for any 20 DVDs.

Today I was filming buses in Wrexham and then a gusty wind at Birkenhead, mostly sunny but oh that wind like being in a hair dryer. I tried to get to Wrexham early and did pick up a couple of operators I wouldn't normally see and some going off school runs.

Once again we shall be at the classic lorry show at Gaydon for the full weekend and will have at super low prices our ex sales / display stock of truck DVDs at just £20 for any 10 DVDs. We had the polio fellowship meeting at Ellesmere Port today , although low in numbers we had a good old natter and I'd managed to get a newsletter together for distribution via post and email. I've just got a few things ready for handing over to John Bishop in Eastbourne next Wednesday but which time we should have filmed at Canterbury and Chatham and ready to go on to Brighton and Southampton before arriving at my sisters house in Hythe at tea time. Next week we hope to get more bus locations done as we hope also for tomorrow. Possibly Birkenhead and Wrexham. Then in a couple of weeks we have Kelsall weekend perhaps the busiest lorry show in the country for classic and vintage with a massive ERF presence. Lets hope fuel costs don't decimate it too much . Anyway a dip in the archive for tonights slide show. On the way to EP I saw an Atki artic on the M6north looked very smart.

Hectic day, swapped to Friday for filming due to terrible weather however we went to Southern Cemetery and tended to all the graves we care for, hard work in pouring rain but all dressed for summer. We are hoping to be down in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire next week but edited high lights as it were, Canterbury, Chatham, Brighton, Southampton. The DVDs above are all on the PMP shop.