A QUICK TRIP TO STOKE BUT THE ROADS TODAY ARE EMPTY

After the chaos on the UK roads yesterday the traffic including lorries has today slumped to about 20% of normal, I'll poke my nose out on Monday but doubt if it will be much difference. It won't get back into full swing until Wednesday or Thursday as in the UK Scotland has an extra day to get over the New Year ie wear off the hang overs and thus a clue to why Scotland has some of the worst mortality rates in the UK.

I spent a few hours at the A500 southern turn off the M6 motorway and scraped together enough material for a DVD. It was a good balance though with lots of different companies and a classic Foden and a three truck heavy load convoy with rail wagons on them. We then came back home and had a late lunch and went to Altrincham to but a new toaster which matches the new kettle that Yvonne and Graham bought us for Christmas at Dunhelms. We had searched for an orange one including looking on the net so strange it never showed in the results. Anyway nothing wrong with the old one other than tending to toast one side more than the other so its now pushing up cobwebs in the garage. We found the PMP labels for envelopes in the garage after chasing delivery, the carrier never put a note on the door to tell us.

I've now got two truck DVDs to edit, clips will go on Youtube over the weekend and digital uploads will go on the shop. I intend to make more inroads into the PMP Film Archive getting more digitised which may well go off for external storage and safe keeping. The images will be on the shop to download and commercial use is available with the licence which is downloaded at the same time it can also be used to cover film from DVDs. Here are shots from this morning.