A DIFFICULT DAY IN THE POTTERIES

On the whole it was a bit too sunny early on although I persisted and got a fair few shots at Hanley then moved to Longton bus station which I haven't visited for many years. A similar situation at Newcastle under Lyme which I can't recall last filming at. By this time it had not only clouded over which was good but then started to rain which wasn't forecast at all. The battery was running low in the camcorder , went to put another in and found that i'd only the one, the mystery was solved when I found that I'd put one on an old camera trying out the first car mounting bracket a couple of weeks back. This hadn't been the one for the job but I got a really good one today which is made by a manufacturer who does a lot of specialist equipment and I'm hoping for an early opportunity to try it out.

Another bad element to the last couple of days has been a dicky tummy, still not right and it's handy to stick near the toilet still! I've got a lot more pictures filed and put on the Smugmug site, I'm still working through the back log including Leicester 2014 which I've just done. Mandy did the orders today, we had a disc which showed as blank for a customer, Mandy has figured out that when our normal Verbatum stock wasn't available they'd supplied Maxell discs which we have had problems with a long time ago and always try to avoid, it looks as if about every fourth one is bad although the electronic check on the duplicator doesn't seem to pick this up. It may be that we'll have to ditch several hundred, they do have the others in stock so we've had to put an extra order through, the printer will be going for a week getting them printed up. Not a lot of DVD orders today but sometimes it gets busy in the evening. We are out tomorrow afternoon, perhaps I'll get something local done in the morning as we are tied up Thursday evening so can't wander far that day but Friday remains free. It's the RNCM Weds and then the Bingo charity night on Thursday. Here are some pictures from todays trip out.