ANOTHER GREAT NIGHT OUT AT THE RNCM

Sue arrived yesterday afternoon, I was round at St Oswalds putting the finishing touches to the disabled access ramps there making the top covering from a lamination or sandwich of rubber. It took a bit of doing and even the extreme double sides tape seemed to struggle to hold it together so I phoned home and Sue brought my Gorilla glue which isn't renowned for sticking rubber but worth a try. I'll go round this morning and check the results, I can always put some duck tape on the bottom which will probably do the job and finish it off as it won't ever be seen. I tidied the collection envelopes which kids had screwed up and drawn on a regular event. Then it was time to make tracks home and get ready to go to Manchester where we had dinner at Brodsky's and then enjoyed the performance of Handel's  Theodora, I think this was Sue's first early opera, lovely pure voice work. As usual a superb production and music, we met Annita and Issy from Clonter as well as Robin Humphreys whose parents we'd seen again at the tea concert last week.

I'm starting to load on to the new PMP Archive subscription channel, a technical hitch meant I've had to delete and restart but should be getting regular additions on soon and will take the opportunity to upgrade the film, sharpen and adjust colour etc and also take off clips for our ordinary Youtube channel. Subs can be made from almost all European countries through to Japan, USA, Australia, Canada, NZ, Russia etc. It starts at around the price of just one DVD a month and you'll get continual additions. Saving of course for annual subs. Very much a work in progress, I am trying to add some of Google graphics to beginning and end as I've eliminated the titles and menu. The girls are sorting out Sue's phone which went down the pan so to speak, it's drying out in a bowl of rice ( uncooked). We have another concert at RNCM this evening then it's a very early start tomorrow driving almost through the night to Detling for the South East Bus Festival at the Kent Showground. This will be our only rally in Kent this year as Herne Bay isn't on. We'll have our amazing selection of South East bus photos as well as all DVDs from the last couple of years and some selected Kent productions. We'll try and blog from Maidstone on Saturday evening. Sunday we will travel down to Eastbourne and meet up with John and Maureen Bishop and hand over the Windmill films we have copied. Monday we plan to film at Tunbridge Wells and Bromley. Fingers crossed, last time we headed there the van broke down. Here are links to some recent DVD trailers.