ANOTHER HORRENDOUS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP

Finally I lasted a whole night through without a minute of sleep although this evening I dozed off a few times with the fire on watching TV and felt quite well for it but tonight is a vital one as we have to be up early as Mandy has the appointment to see about clearing her tear ducts and then we have to go up to the Spire at Manchester to get the clips out of the wound. Yes anyone local may recall the Spire hitting the news this last week as they forgot to take out some plastic tubing from a patient after an operation so much for going private. Anyway I'm floating up and down and shivering a lot of the time it could still be the anesthetic working its way our, plus the tummy has been a bit unsettled but these things have not put off the editing which has moved on to Germany with the first volume of this tranche complete and I'll get the cover done and in a tick I'll upload a few clips, it's mainly 1990 scenes by Dave Cole. There are lots of films to come without even touching the old cine archives.

I did a lot of work on the still image files but still a way to go as there were thousands of images I'd left over so I wouldn't get bored during my recovery period. I was hoping to get into the garden and put some bird food out but it kept coming over wet and I didn't want to risk the crutches on wet surfaces its bad enough navigating around the house with them. A few more orders for DVDs trickled in making two large bags full for the post. I managed to get some of my Oxford and EFE models out of the boxes and found a space in the display cases although its getting very tight. There was another Ikarus artic trolley on EBay but they are fetching very high prices and being retired its harder to justify the expenditure so keep looking through.

I had a session with Orange/EE trying to cancel the old broadband but needless to say it failed and we need to call into one of their shops, I pointed out that this was the sort of hassle which caused us to go over to BT for the fibre optic job. Then I did minor skirmishing with BT to eliminate our old fax line 01565722038 is now dead, seems a shame but it wasn't being used and will further reduce the phone bill. I had a look at hotel prices for the CIE 75th at Dublin, they are sky high, perhaps its rugby that weekend, we'll stay out of town where there is easy parking and then travel back in, still not sure if I'll be up to filming anything aside from the rally at Dublin Port.

Clips of the German trams on Youtube in a few minutes, next vol;ume in the pipeline.