A SMASHING TIME FROM HATTONS

The electric has just blow so I lost the script although just the picture stayed as a 'draft' blog, anyway I'll have to pick up the thread again, most annoying. I was annoyed by the lastest offerings from Hattons which arrived smashed although the outbox and packing was undamaged , very strange perhaps it was sent like that as punishment for my complaints about poor service. What is annoying is that it all comes back to the customer to return, if one of our DVDs had arrived smashed we'd just put a replacement ion the post and wouldn't expect the customer to have to pack go to post office etc. The electric blew a fuse in one of the lounge lamps, thankfully we've got one of those new fangled switches in the garage which you just flick back up, none of the fuse wire job. I was very busy at the office this morning and looking at the orders which are starting to come through it may be the start of the Christmas rush at this end. Everything should go back out by return of post, we don't travel to Cuba until Christmas eve so all orders should always be moving straight through up to our annual holiday break. 

The new Oxford ERF LV Flatbed looks a tidy little model, if they would just tone down the glossy paint they would look even more perfect. The Queen Mary airforce, army trailer and Bedford should find a ready market in the cross over military, rail, truck market. I gave up trying to get the Atlas Lodekka open topper off the base, it will have to be a hack saw job as they have really gone to town trying to hide it's identity as a low quality Corgi hash up. We are still a little unsure about tomorrow, Wales seems favourite at present but I'll be checking the BBC weather reports later on. I've now finished the latest Staffordshire bus video archive programme and should have the cover done this evening. I'm just taking clips from it for Youtube before I start the last of the trilogy. It's bangers and mash for tea tonight, I think I rather destroyed the taste of the beer last night having choritso with chicken before hand, both MPA and Little Willy tasted a bit flat, I'm sure it wasn't.

The log fire in the Pheasant has still to see action this winter. It was very mild travelling back from work this afternoon, after a brew we nipped into Knutsford to change over a building society account, the Cheshire has been bought out, really weird woman served us , perhaps she had throat cancer though - anyway it was still very weird, she couldn't talk about much as she had to keep repeating I cannot comment, I am not trained in this or that, couldn't even do small talk, politically correct gone mad once again. What about the europe business , I bet Farage is getting the black shirts made up, all the muslems will have to wear little crescents on their clothes . Still good for the leather industry the demand for jack boots. I suppose it's the French who have spotted an opportunity of getting us out of the EU by handing the UKIP storm troopers a bonus. The Cameroons are drifting back towards Africa , yes all at sea once more, it isn't fair, it's not nice, wake up to the real world you silly public school boy tossers, about time we had someone in parliament who had done even one day's proper work in their lives.Not a lot I can think of, oh yes had a chat with a nice folk singer / composer in Cumbria who is going to use a little slice of our M6 standstill film as part of his video on staying in his own back yard, now come on you in the back row - it's not all baaa,baa in Cumbria, think of the sausages and crappy sticky toffee pudding , ok it is all baa baa. Just a joke, oh no not the Cumberland Gap Police......aaarghh. So there we have Cumbrian photos for tonight.