Thanks as ever to Roy Finney for such wonderful models to join my collection. Tomorrow I'm on the IOW and then Southhampton, Bournemouth and Poole. Next week all being well Scotland.

I had my monthly meet up with Peter Waller of OTA in Shrewsbury today, although the local pub has sort of gone Indian the food was well prepared and service good and even the beers were on form. Our Hampshire and Dorset trip this week is Wednesday to Friday and the Scotland trip next week Monday to Thursday.

A day of people as well as lorries, from the moment Tom Carron offered me a brew as we came in to meeting up with a childhood pay and meeting numerous viewers of my channels and DVDs through to my latest worlds biggest fan and still quite young at that, greeting to everyone and some great lorries out there. The weather was acceptable and not a drop of rain and the gout wasn't too bad today. Picked up models from Roy Finney and chatted with him and Ray both modellers. Saw some of my old chums dioramas that I hadn't seen before. Just a couple of shots tonight then more tomorrow.

We had decided to have a non transport day far away from DVDs etc and went down to Attingham Park in Shropshire. What we didn't know was that they were having a prom in the park concert and their staff were very stretched. Although we had been before Mandy fancied a look around the house again but few room watchers etc were available. In a wheelchair getting upstairs isn't too bad as they have a staff operated old lift. Safely up we went sent on our way by staff at reception. However the return journey was a monster. nobody free to help so we said we could see ourselves out. I went in the tiny lift then Mandy in the wheelchair back to the gate. It all opens automatically except the external door to the lift gate. Mandy who was back to it tried pushing. The door flew back , the chair went up and Mandy went backwards through the air and finally cracked her head on the concrete floor. I was now trapped by the wheelchair in the tiny lift and Mandy lay there. I screamed for help and visitors came and helped and went to fetch staff. They were as helpful as could be but beware of taking eyes off the safety balls when promoting concerts. By Saturday Mandy's elbow remained the main problem but other than a big lump Mandy's head is OK. Anyway if the wasn't enough Dave has had gout in his left hand ( difficult as left handed) this seems to be subsiding but need to see doctor working around the to film trips coming up.
I've got the latest covers finished and here are the new films.

The attack on my left hand with arthritis is slowing everything down at present. I'm going to give it a rest today and look forward to Sunday at Gaydon, mostly I can do the film work no bother. I'm glad I got the dioramas done as it was only a matter of time with the condition which claws the fingers, up to now ( I'm left handed) it has been worse on my right had but this is the first time anything critical has struck my dominant left hand and fingers.  I've got another film on the OTA site from the days of Online Video, support and backing from Martin and Wilf who made the originals and Wilf remains a member of OTA and Martin President. Some shots from West Bromwich. I know I've got a few films to edit. Next week I'll be in Hampshire and Dorset including IOW. The week after weather permitting I'll be in Scotland.

The weather looks good for Southern England so when Mandy heads off to our friends in Ireland I'm heading to the South coast. Portsmouth, Fareham, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole who knows trucks at Southampton, Salisbury, Winchester. I'll do my best. A lot of editing to catch up on before that. Three new 'limited editions' and soon to come the Friends of PMP subscription resource. I think I'm up to 125k photos on Flickr. You see a selection on most of my blogs, fancy having access to all of them , all the time. - launch soon, who wants to be first Fried of PMP! Meanwhile Walsall yesterday . Today was dentist and gardening plus coffee and cakes at garden centre.

I was rather hoping to get Walsall, West Bromwich and Dudley all done today but it took nearly an hour to get parked near the bus station at West Brom, I should have remembered the Tesco site as it was after a similar fiasco that I parked there in the end on the previous visit. Walsall and West Brom very much the feel that they have been left behind in the process of getting the fleet renewed. I can cover Dudley when I visit Worcester next.

I tweaked the images and cleaned them as best I could, you can even have them as digital downloads. I hope to put both on the shop tomorrow but I will be out filming during the day. There will be another limited edition very soon, just need to put on titles and make the cover. I'll do a few more as time permits. I'm still getting the Flickr channel populated about 110k images. I'll just slip the scheme on the shop and give it a gentle birth, hopefully other than the infuriating Flickr quirks most things at least with albums will work as intended. A few screen shots as I've been working on them

A great running day but it became apparent that duplicates would have been needed to shift the loads which developed after lunch in Epsom and I understand at Kingston. I had a great but long day, not sure how many more years I can drive own to London at 5am and back for evening dinner!

Yes it will be a very early start as I head down to Epsom for the running day. I've been loading still images to the new PMP Friends Flickr site well over 100k now and rising. The site is a bit wobbly at times. We got the new Squirrel trap which collared a large hedgehog, it was unharmed just a bit dazed, seemed quite friendly and I gave it some of the special hedgehog food which was ignored. The squirrels really only want peanuts so with none out none of the little blighters today. Woodpecker seen here every day this week. I've scanned a lot more cine films for OTA and put a couple of films on our Youtube channel. Hoping to be out and about with the camera this coming week as the weather settles.