The Australian Denning electrics are attracting lots of enthusiasts to Burton On Trent, only two in service due to lack of sockets but more will be fitted during the school holidays. I think they are finding out their limitations at present. Even had our Chinese friends catching a look at the opposition. It was great at Mansfield, always a great welcome there. On Youtube we had some very nice words from our visit to Cardiff and bus enthusiasts in general from a driver, modesty forbids quoting, it is there to see but certainly a thumbs up and lets keep smiling, waving and being really pleasant, it really does brighten up folk who are having a less than perfect day. Well done enthusiasts, and well done drivers et al.

After over a week without any post we got a fair old bundle today. I've got most of last weeks films edited plus the next Buses advert done and managed to complete the rally stock so I've at least one each of the last years bus films ready for Alton albeit the weather looks a bit iffy. That will possibly be the last rally we attend with out sales stock, we might attend a couple to sell off remaining DVDs and our local events at the NWVRT. We have already launched our Friends of PMP subscription service with access to our still photos, loaded on the private Flickr channel are around 163k images and growing monthly. We hope for at least 250k by next year. It seems so strange to be saying goodbye to the old DVDs, they have well outlasted anything people in the trade could have envisaged. The digital downloads haven't really taken off so it looks as if it will be really quiet in my retirement. We sold our first VHS tapes in the late 1980's and they laster only a short while until we went over to DVD. In theory it should have been Blu Ray next but nobody wanted it.  Plenty of time to order anything you want on DVD but I have huge amounts of work to do on OTA material once their new scanner arrives. If any of the old kit goes defunct repair is unlikely. I've put quite a few London views on the Flickr site today, this one ties two interests together,  I collected photos from Kent and Sussex Boro'line came into my sphere of interest and of course they made the privatisation of London that much more interesting, now it is just red again and why I never really came under the London spell until later years,

I don't know if other parts of the country are suffering like the North West but we have now entered a second week with no postal service so it you have sent an order and not received it that is the reason. They have no reserves for holiday or sickness cover. 

I've completed covers for all of last weeks films, I'm still editing them and putting on Youtube which seems to be working at a crawl, having high speed to send doesn't mean the other end receives it equally fast.

I'm getting all the stock ready for Alton rally, this is probably the last of our sales stand at rallies. We are considering a charity stand supporting OTA, BPF , NWVRT, we may have one selling off remainder of DVDs. The stock needs to vanish by the end of 2026 as we shall have almost finished DVDs by then. 

Don't forget our 'friends of PMP' service, with over 150,000 photos and more for you to look at download, print - anything but reposting or selling.

Here are covers for the latest films

I had begun to think we would never have an afternoon in the heatwave in the comfort of our garden. It was almost warm in church this morning, just pleasant and then back for lunch and a sit with requisite drinks as the afternoon went on. No children playing out anywhere so pleasant silent reading time or dozing. Monday I'll get the DVD stock ready for the Alton rally trip , we'll go down Friday and back after the rally. I need to start editing this past weeks films, I'll try to get that done tomorrow as well. Weather might be wet to start the week or just cloudy which is great for filming. Lots of location on my notional list. More scenes from the past week.

Between shifts at Tesco collection for the BPF we managed a walk and sit at West Kirby seafront. Then back for our final session with Arty before we left about 5.30 this afternoon. The day really seemed to fly by and we were well looked after by the lovely Tesco staff at Heswall. It looks as if Arty may yet drum again and is working on an adaption for his pedal to stop his foot slipping off. No orders and no post at home, the first post free week but alas I'm sure it means that some of you will be waiting for their orders. We see a lot of wind back articles looking at former times so here are two, one for Many and one for Dave

I nearly got wiped out heading bck north on the M6, a favourite spot for traffic to slow at a largish hill, I could see that traffic was slowing quite fast so put my flashers on. A lorry and van either side must have both been dozing off and a late application of brakes and skidding say them both heading towards me. Thankfully my little IQ isn't much of a target and I managed to rock and roll between the careering truck and van. I just straightened and resumed the journey. I've no idea what happened to the lorry and van. It was around 36-37deg all day in the south west. I did more usual trip, Ross then Monmouth and ending at Avonmouth. Here are just a couple of scenes from each.

I was far too tired to do my truck trip today so enjoying catch up time to open OTA Ad Sense account as we have now been invited to monetorise our OTA Youtube channel. Meanwhile some stills from Newport yesterday

Tomorrow buses in Newport and Cardiff, burglar alarm went off at 3.30am , 5am came round very soon, not a bad trip down and return only spoilt by a stranded car at north end of the M5.