A TRADING CORNER TURNED PERHAPS

Sunday is always the quieter of the two trading days at the museum of transport at Boyle St in Manchester and this year was certainly no exception and the spring event is usually less profitable than that preceding Christmas. Happily this year by the smallest of margins the weekend trading beat the event in 2015. It was fun and games packing up, I'd got the PMP van in a perfect position near the door but onme of the other traders wanted to get my spot so offered to 'help' to speed things up, as I went off with my first load his attempts with a barrow trolleys sent the DVD boxes and contents flying. I carried on regardless I'm a little less stressed these days even if the blood pressure has shot up. Then one of the lovely lads from the museum with learning difficulties tried to assist further and this resulted in a similar situation outside.

However unflappable old me I carried on and with some deft diversions escaped the worst of the Sunday traffic and we were sat down for starters at 18.00 although mains come later and pudding later still such is the life of busy busy people. Lots of our usual friends and customers over the weekend. I thought the atmosphere a little tense at times with the museum staff who rely on such a small band for so many tasks. I've got a pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord which ties in with Phil Stevenson advising me its made in Keighley where i need to film sometime as they are changing the livery. We are if all goes well off filming tomorrow in Northampton and Bedford, if there is a break in the cloudy weather I might go back up to Cumbria to finish the Cumbria bus film, and if it were a sunny day do some truck filming as well. Gardening needs doing Good Friday is also a good bet for that but that doesn't sound very holy week does it! Photos outside the museum this afternoon.