It was the big garden bird watch first thing, the heavy rain from yesterday had abated and there was early sunshine but an unforecast sharp frost. I decided to do it over my morning cuppa and although there were no mass flocks not even gold finches en-mass there was a good variety and I was at 14 species just as it was ticking by to time to shoot off to church and I got a pair of reed buntings on the lawn which topped the count off at No17 quite nicely. The burning issue at St Oswald's is no longer the toilet which starts construction on Tuesday and has seen years of fund raising to make to materialise but the access to the church itself. It's become something of a sticking point and I think when you boil it all down those without disabilities find it hard to grasp the viewpoint from a wheelchair etc. We host the church Access Committee meeting Tuesday evening which should be interesting. The bell ringers seem to come into the mix a lot so over wine at the college this evening my off the wall thinking was to get rid of the bell ringers, they were making some rum noises this morning! Anyway we shot away back home quickly after the morning service, I did manage most of the opening up and setting up duties on my own though. Sue came back down from her sister's and we bundled into Mandy's little Jazz for the last outing, it gets exchanged tomorrow for a new blue one full of gadgets. The new link road from the M6 to M56 is nearing completion. We very much enjoyed the Griimethorpe Colliery Band concert which was on in the afternoon, this was their first outing in their centenary year and their repertoire reflected events since the 1930's and included retrospective pieces to those who died in their industry and some national shared experiences and saw most of the audience in tears, the hairs on my neck had never been on end so many times in any concert for a long while. Brodsky restaurant was open for seating so we had our picnic at a table in there and made the bookings for our next visits. The Cory Band with their trophys well to the fore gave impeccable and technically superb performances but somehow find it hard to drop their stance as world champions to make it a truly accessible show but very entertaining and top of their art. It's been a very busy weekend for DVD and cine film orders both by post and on the internet shops, I'll have my hands full in the morning getting everything cleared and ready to post before we leave to Crewe for the car change. I did manage to get all the Staffs and Wrexham photos ready to file, perhaps later tomorrow and upload to our still photo site on Smugmug links on this site. The hits on the adverts on our Youtube channel have tumbled since Christmas, I abhor those who visit and use ad blocker apps, it is in nobody's interest bar their own and that is short term as how else does Google raise the revenue and pass our fees on which back our archive build. Some shots from Wrexham last week. This coming week is hard to call at present, perhaps Chester Tuesday as Mandy needs to go there anyway. The new bus station should be opening soon. Comments are closed.
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