Before a brew the news and bed a first glimpse of photos from lasts weeks trip which by now most will know was tweaked due to two hours lost in 10 mile M40 jam on our way down. We shall backfill the Kent trip at a future date so we lead with Crawley. A very annoying day, why is everything for computers so difficult and fraught with changes which are hidden. I won't bore you with details but is has been a difficult morning all round especially as I had worked so hard to get us in a position to do some garden jobs before we head off down to Hampshire via Kent and Sussex. Anyway here is another batch of photos from the Gaydon weekend. I knew today was going to be busy, we had a lot of DVD orders to get sent out. Then I had the back log of editing to do, 7 DVDs, just one more Gaydon to go and all the DVD covers are made. I'll be loading all the Youtube clips this evening and all the items should be on the PMP shop by tomorrow latest. I'm working against a deadline of leaving for the south of England on Wednesday. LV insurance have been helpful in getting the damage process underway, no forms just a phone call. The chap who did it phoned through his company insurance details and Enterprise hire is even ready with a hand control kit in readiness for a hire car. Anyway I'm still bouncing through the jobs and here are the new films. I'm also scanning while I'm editing but had a bitch of a reel today with several dry joints in the cine. What would have been a spot on weekend at Gaydon classic and vintage lorry show only spoilt by a BMW company car driver reversing into Mandy's car, he accepted full responsibility and blame and was upset to have been caught reversing while setting his sat nav and as he said he didn't see us as he was looking at the sat nav. Hopefully we'll get the remainder of his details tomorrow as it was a company car.. The turn out at Gaydon was I thought good all things considered although it took everything centred around the new car parks and slopes to make it look fullish, gone the steel boys up the top and gone the vans over on the high grassed area, the few tractors and stationery engines also in the centre of things so quite a compact area but some superb vehicles. I picked up my new Midland Red buses from Roy Finney, they all look very smart. I will give him another order to be picked up next year. We sold a lot of the bargain old display DVDs and had one large box less to bring home. The hotel at Warwick university conference centre was not bad, nice meal shame about shower over bath and the car park incident. We have already put everything away and tidied up, a quick flan and beans and then bed after we catch the news. There are quite a lot of DVD orders to be sent off. Then I need to get 7 DVDs edited and covers made plus still trying to keep up with the cine film scanning. Wednesday I'll be filming in sunny Kent and Sussex plus Southampton through to Thursday teatime meeting my pal John Bishop at Polgate for a meal Wednesday night. The car is just about ready for Gaydon, we'll be up at 5.30 and leave at 6am which should see us on site before 8am although it will already be a bit of a scrum getting the stock in. There is just one sort of thing we shall have , very cheap lorry films at £10 for any 20 DVDs. Today I was filming buses in Wrexham and then a gusty wind at Birkenhead, mostly sunny but oh that wind like being in a hair dryer. I tried to get to Wrexham early and did pick up a couple of operators I wouldn't normally see and some going off school runs. Once again we shall be at the classic lorry show at Gaydon for the full weekend and will have at super low prices our ex sales / display stock of truck DVDs at just £20 for any 10 DVDs. We had the polio fellowship meeting at Ellesmere Port today , although low in numbers we had a good old natter and I'd managed to get a newsletter together for distribution via post and email. I've just got a few things ready for handing over to John Bishop in Eastbourne next Wednesday but which time we should have filmed at Canterbury and Chatham and ready to go on to Brighton and Southampton before arriving at my sisters house in Hythe at tea time. Next week we hope to get more bus locations done as we hope also for tomorrow. Possibly Birkenhead and Wrexham. Then in a couple of weeks we have Kelsall weekend perhaps the busiest lorry show in the country for classic and vintage with a massive ERF presence. Lets hope fuel costs don't decimate it too much . Anyway a dip in the archive for tonights slide show. On the way to EP I saw an Atki artic on the M6north looked very smart. Hectic day, swapped to Friday for filming due to terrible weather however we went to Southern Cemetery and tended to all the graves we care for, hard work in pouring rain but all dressed for summer. We are hoping to be down in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire next week but edited high lights as it were, Canterbury, Chatham, Brighton, Southampton. The DVDs above are all on the PMP shop. Getting ready for Gaydon, a trip to the South East next week and the July Brazil trip provides a lot of balls being juggled at the same time. I'm still bedding in the new computer, I had the chap down south who does online training come on and remotely get me set up properly with all the right settings, far easier than struggling. That said still a lot to do, filing photo images, getting DVDs made, making DVD covers, there is a stack backing up now. Tomorrow we are going to the cemetery to get the family graves tidied up for summer and the cleaner is coming late morning so try to be out of her way with the vac. Brazil took up most time and stress today, really hard work, we cannot really gauge the changes in Sao Paulo since I was there last, now there are starving people on the streets ready to rob and kill so optimum safety measures will be in place when I film, Jorges has a friend coming as added back up, we are restricting film locations to the safest possible location some near or in the trolleybus depots. Anyway straight to a slide show with more Lymm Trucks yesterday. A very quick blog this evening. A couple of things, getting my contact who does Edius editing support to come on live tomorrow and set up my editing suite as I cannot get it sorted then we had to unload the car, get DVD orders sorted and then many hours booking the flights to Brazil in July for our trip to the Pantanal. The flight cost has tripled nearly in the past few months but we hadn't booked due to all the uncertainty going on at the time with flights. We have direct flights to Sao Paulo from Heathrow then internal flight on to Cuiaba near the Pantanal which is south of the Amazon. Photos from my quick trip to Lymm services this morning, great drivers even got a round the roundabout special with toots and lights, well down O'Connors! Mandy had a bad tumble today, she fell outside Aldi's and knocked her forehead , its going to be a shiner by tomorrow but she say she is otherwise ok. Apologies I never managed a blog yesterday but the logistics were against us, we had our garden party with our lovely neighbours, that sort of wobbled on until about 8.30 pm and then relaxed watching the jubilee concert. Somewhere along the line I'd compiled a disc of band music for the village tea party which I fear might have suffered from bad weather today. We were up sharpish for the NWVRT open day and bus running event. There are so many people there that I know I get that warm feeling that I used to get at the Wedgwood centre rallies with POPS. There was an early crisis with the loos which was tackled with hearty valour and remedied, nobody would want the full details but give that man a medal. It was wet early on but pm it was tolerable and the crowds had gathered, the canteen ran out of cake. All the special DVDs I'd prepared for the trust stand to sell were sold so a bit more fund raising. I may well have another try at filming trucks at Lymm tomorrow if the weather outlook comes true. I'll be updating our to do list into summer locations but with the central heating on this evening it feels like autumn. The sentry boxes that Elton and I made are going to officiate at the Cheshire Show, well two on that and the third will be at the Little House nursery school fund raiser. I'm going to let the pictures tell the story and continue with Kirkby on tomorrow's blog. Our garden party Saturday evening The royal standard as we were an official Queen's beacon site. Below St Oswalds dressed for the jubilee Our village tableaux with the sentry boxes ready to be relocated to the Cheshire show after the jubilee, the coach has now gained its crown And now to relax!
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