ALMOST ON THE MEND NOW

My cold seems to have peaked and hopefully tomorrow, Friday I'll be starting to picvk up a bit.  I've had such a variety of medicines that all I seem to taste is something akin to mettalic whatever that tastes like you may well ask. I was going to prepare a Christmas Youtube message but it canm become a New Year one as I'm not doing it with a blocked nose and that's for sure. I did sleep reasonably well and woke about 6.30 am which is only 15 mins earlier than when I had to get up mto go to work, that seems a long time ago now. The 16mm cine films which I started loading on EBay last week have been going quite well at auction with the first 4 sold I've nearly covered my outlay and another 70 to sell albeit the dearest and the first sold are usually the 'gems' amongst the dross. Still fingers crossed and that's one of the film trips paid for. It's been awful trying to load the films to Youtube as the Firefox site has gone into permanent crash mode and even Chrome isn't much better. Every time I move I have to get rid of a pile of tissues, oh well better out than in , we've been nibbling away at one of our presents, rather moorish chocy biscuits which has the added attraction of following on from our two fasting days , always an element of compensating afterwards but it does seen to keep the girth in check although I suspect that it will be well challenged over the coming days. I smell of Vicks vapour rub , I suppose its the old adage that if it smells or tastes horrid it must be doing you good. We skyped with Tina and Max in NZ last time before Christmas, good news the New Zealand film I talked about is now finally loaded after being the cause of several Youtube crashes.

I decided that I'd stick to my plan to film today and it was down to trucks rather than buses. There was black ice first thing, no roads were salted or gritted at all which isnt surprising as the weather forcast was wrong yet again. It was only plus 1 when I went out, tried the A500 west bound to Crewe and looked at several other locations along the route which would probably be great any other time than the winter solstice. That said the good news is the the days now start to get longer once more. The sun was really too low to do anything, I tried several locations including the A556 replacement, toyed with J19 on the M6 but finally it went cloudy so I gave up and headed back home about 11.30am but on passing over the M6 once more ( we live on top of several crossings) the sun had perked up and traffic was crawling so I parked up on the bridge and used the muddy footpath with the two broken styles to access the path besides the motorway and this proved quite a good move albeit a bit breezy and cold. When I got back I confirmed the Indian railway tickets and tried to contact the RNCM re the new sponsorship but everyone had finished for Christmas. I had to hose my walking shoes they were so muddy, Mandy is getting clothes packed for Hampshire plus the funeral in Sussex all over the next week. At least I have some new photos from today, should get the film edited this evening, just past 4pm its pitch black despite a clear sky.