It looks as if it is 100% down to my discomfort with decimal mm cm etc which I don't relate to any real size as it is something I didn't grow up with, lets hope if we leave the EU we go back to our own imperial measurements which make more sense. So its £600 wasted, I'll see if I can get them to refund any profit element but as it has been hardened and holes drilled it will not be of use to them and certainly not to me, I did ask them if they would come and measure it which would have been a cost well worth paying. Its bitterly disappointing and a blow to have wasted so much money but we are in it so far that there can't be any going back so glass has been changed back to Perspex which is what I wanted in the first place. I've order just two pieces to make sure it fits and doesn't warp to much, as it is held at the sides as well as top and bottom I'm hoping at two foot wide it will be rigid enough for the purpose in hand. If it works the whole set up will actually cost more than it would in glass, Northwich glass have been anything but helpful through the process and I wouldn't recommend them and certainly wouldn't use them again for double glazing requirements.

I've finished getting all the back up of family photos on to the Smugmug site, around 20k just mine and Mandys shots plus all the extended family history and family events we have covered. I've also managed to get on top of the bus and truck photo filing, thats a job well done. I can't say it has been much of a day, I was sorting out the front garden, put in bulbs and pansies and then thought I'd just do the small island in the back lawn around the acer tree, pulled a muscle in my back, bent double. Hoping to film at Halifax and Bradford tomorrow. We tried to get an appointment with our accountant but nobody rang back, ditto the lady who helped sort the tax ( 20pence) on the house in Ireland  last year to do the business for us again, can't make head nor tail out of the HMRC web based submissions. The van needs an MOT before we can tax it despite the fact that it doesn't run out until Thursday , strange systems aren't they. Well feeling quite gloomy and depressed from several fronts but on a positive note I've started putting together the Bus Spot Ultra Sunderland film which will hopefully be ready this week. I'm hoping to get a couple done before Christmas although not sure which the next will be.

As soon as the blasted cabinets are finished and room cleared of boxes of models I'll get on with the new cine scanning machine which I've yet to use. It will be a slow job but hopefully less fraught than the projector and cine going like a Lancaster bomber in the dining room. Fitting around the archives might well be more DVD material from the past to be integrated. The copies promise to offer a much higher quality although not matching the £100k scanners the regional and National archives use. The family photos come out really well on viewing through the Smugmug site, dipping into our archive some shots of the garden at No17 over the years.

Following a request for copies of family photos I realised that I hadn't put the family history photos in to our main photo archive or uploaded them to our photo sales site on Smugmug so I've uploaded all the historic material from the various parts of the Hardy family and thus easily available worldwide to all family members who can download images or order prints and gift ware based around the images. I hope that this is of help and encourages members of the wider family to assist with more modern shots and fill in gaps. The process of getting pictures on to the Ancestry copy of the family trees isn't that easy as the Ancestry upload process is from the ark and very restricted and has several built in glitches. If you say anything about it they go into Morman central defence position! The worst aspect is turning the images the wrong way up, all very annoying. I've also started uploading our own family photos as a cloud back up to the desk top and external drive copies that we already have.

While we are on Family History and the Hardys it is worth mentioning that the Hardy family memorial bench is at Southern Cemetery, it needs another coat of varnish which I did buy but not apply yet. We also have more of the stone monument restoration spray which has already worked wonders with the Hardy memorial and the Hastings memorial next door but one. When we go down to do the autumn clean up and plant spring bulbs and pansies we shall make a first attempt to restore the Robert Joseph Hardy memorial which is actually in remarkably good condition and now tended regularly by Mandy and myself. Any help is always welcome and the bench makes a nice picnic spot. In fact I thought one spring or summer we could have a 'family'picnic which would need to be a weekday when the gates are open so everyone could get parked up and access the plots.

Mark Ashmore and myself both have active Hardy family trees on Ancestry, I think Marks is also public so anyone on Ancestry can look at it and import information. All sorts of caveats must apply with anything on Ancestry as it has a habit of duplicating data and encourages a sort of 'snap' process of adding data without too much checking of relevance. THe rain came down after church this morning which put pay to doing the from garden any more but we did visit Fryers at Knutsford and got the pansies for planting up when I put the bulbs in , perhaps Monday while we are waiting for the glass to arrive for the display cabinets. For random interest just to show our folk what is on the Smugmug family section here is a sequence plucked from thousands. Mostly from Mandys grandparents era onwards. As I say just typical of thousands of shots. Our Smugmug site has by the way nearly half a million photos!

Well thats all the Indonesian DVDs ready and loaded on the PMP shop together with a few more digital download DVDs listed. I've worked hard in the front garden, drier after the deluge which soaked me yesterday. Tomorrow I'll try and get the front garden ready for winter, strimming grass, raking borders, bulbs to plant and pansies to plant for over wintering. I got the mower over the lawns albeit still very damp. Mandy and I have got the summer clothes swapped round for winter garments and a few more left to do tomorrow.

The DVD orders are up to date as of this morning but several more have arrived during the afternoon via Amazon and our own shop. We are eating at The Dog in Over Peover this evening and then  we can have a roast tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing what the removed pews and replacement stone floor slabs look like at St Oswalds, we have a finance meeting of the PMM and a joint one with the rural Dean and St Lawrences pcc as any changes to St Oswalds will afftect them having been both grouped under Jane Lloyds ministry. I'm not really sure if I want to stay on the PCC as the village church is lurching back into medieval times and behaviours.

The glass for the display cabinets, well half of it, is arriving some time Monday, hopefully it will fit without too much alteration. I've had a look at possible bus film locations this coming week probably Tues,Wed and Thursday which could include, Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn, Halifax, Stratford, Leamington , York, Harrogate but not all!

Abandoned any more attempts at gardening after a real soaking this afternoon, fingers crossed it will fair up a bit over the weekend as there are many jobs which need doing in the garden but it is unlikely to dry out much. We are just about swung round to UK time now, no jet lag really just tiredness. I've got all but the one bus DVD on Indonesia finished so four on lorries which wasn't bad as I was really grotty with the streaming cold and sore throat not to mention coughing. Clips will be on Youtube this evening for the truck films, I may get the bus DVD done as well. I chased Northwich glass on the doors for the new display cabinets, they have arrived this morning but they can't deliver until Monday which is a bit of a pain. I'm hoping we will be able to get ourselves back on schedule with the UK bus visits next week, cloudy but dry being essential this time of year, possbile targets to film will be in Yorkshire. Here are some truck shots from Jakarta dock areas.

A long tiring flight of which the first leg to Doha from Jakarta was the best. When we got to Manchester the luggage and wheelchair were swiftly through but Arrow taxis unknown to us have lost the airport franchise for taxis and it was ages before the driver found us and a monster crawl to get to the car park even in a wheelchair, Manchester airport just goes from worse to the pits. We are busy getting all the DVDs ready to send out this morning and I'm downloading film from the trip. My cold is more or less over, insides just getting back to normal but up at 5am as we try to swing our body clocks back to UK time. A threatened post strike before Christmas makes it wise to get your present orders in early. By Monday we should be getting back out filming. Lets just have a taste of the Orangutans first and then some buses in Jakarta.

Great how it has  here to all come Clicktogether I e the end with the goodness that we can visit the biggest orangutan and sun gear reintroduction centre tomorrow, tickets are very limited and sold first to people staying at their own lodge usually through advertised group tours of which we are seldom or ever part of these days. The hotel has used its contacts and sorted it. Changed money this morning , a long taxi ride down near the coast where the few money exchange places we found, it took a staff of ten to changejust a hundred euro, which we got before finding that we were going to the grant Utah's tomorrow so we need to see if we have enough. After a few early drops of rain the weather has gotten better all-day to finish with a clear blue sky, we are going to the roof top bar to watch sunset this evening. There are a couple of Australians herefor work but can't get on with it so are interested in the orangutan trip.thsnkzto the loyal fire of readers who still look in when spee are travelling, normally with s daily slide show trombone there are a thousand more but this little impacts the youtubefollowing and as Indonesia is well up in our top ten viewer countries we hope they will allwant to seeing impression of their country as part of a series dating back to Bali in 1990.

We've  hereseen Clicks good bit of life here in Indonesia over the past week, we had mochtails with a naval commodore and cruise ship captain, the governor's gove and tonight a regimental reunion which really kept the staff on their toes but it all happened so quickly, lots of salutes and hand shaking and hugs , lots of food and water, a but of karioki and then they were all gone again. Weddings galore but I think the weekend is over and normal service tomorrow. We had our first tropical thunderstorm of the trip this morning, tried sitting it out but it was persisting until lunch time so we got a taxi to take us to the sun bear reservation about 50mins on the main road out which took us past long lines of wagons fuelling up ready for the new week, they only seemed to have two places for the lorries. The sun bear enclosure has the resident population of about seven years mostly male and unsuitable for release back into the wild. Everything we had read seemed to be wrong and it was more zoo than any type of reserve and no breeding stock etc. It was clean and tidy and at feeding time they just fed thema la zoo but the local monkeys and squirrels also have a good feast. There is so little rain forest left that I guess the orangutans and sun bears will be extinct in a generation. On the skyline here the night is illuminated by the oil refinery burn off, just like stanlow they let go of most of the crap at night. The last days aren't promising for weather but we've done well until today. Hoping to get some more trucks and buses if it isn't raining in the morning, no chance of the orangutan lodge tomorrow, outside chance Tuesday then it will be too late as weflyback to Jakarta on Wednesday. The local buses here are colour coded by route and seem to go along way out, we saw them all the way out today visiting the bear place. Well We home Thursday evening and hopefully clear the dvd orders on Friday so feel free to use the shopthis week any delay should be minimal, I'll switch Amazon back on and get eBay off holiday settings. We shall also of course bring you pictures from the trip. to edit.

I always think that aeroplanes are a sure fire  herway Clickof  egetting a cold toor worse and being hunted up then streaming cold and followed by hacking cough is best done when the temperature is below the mid 30,s but at least we are in very smart spacious surroundings in Borneo. The flight from Jakarta was via batik which is supposed to be the more upmarket version of lion air but it just proves howawfullion air must be. Airlines seem to be inarace to see who can makeryanair look smart. Anyway the flight was on time, Mandy miss read the time to 4pm departure when that was arrival time, a good job she likes to get to the airport early, nobody noticed our slightly late arrival. The wheelchair was taken in their stride and was there at the door on arrival, full marks for that. The baggage has also managed to follow us so touch would and fingers crossed on that. The hotel I booked as being by Sheraton turned out to be a Marriott which produces would worst hotels in my experience but this one was very new, shiny and lots of usual Asian smiles but the pool was tin and seemed to be next to some industrial plant and there were only four sunbeds plus the doors to the pool or incredible iteep slope required special request to open. Gave up after the first night and looked at the other top hotel the platinum hotel and conference centre. I gave up on the cheap as chips option with super reviews as that had landed us at the Marriott four points and went by taxi to see this hotel, I decided to go upmarket to executive suite which has given us a really superb room at about sixty quid anight, yes the Marriott was a bargain for workers at twenty or less but if you are mostly on holiday skittle bit of bargain luxury doesn't go amiss. They are trying to get us liked to go to see the orangutan and sun gear sanctuary, booked up for tomorrow but we shall try for Sunday or Monday. The main road seems to run outside so I should be in a good position Monday onwards for truck filming and the uses all pass by, the local ones are the 5k minibuses., I think theageof tickets is dead, lucky to have got them inbatam last year. The Jakarta stored vakuecardlooked like something you could use in many countries not just on transport. Welltry and get to some other out of city spots, the locals aren't very much into wildlife , walking or general culture, just making slot of noise en masses at times? Thankfully the hotel we arenowin has masses of space to get our own haven in the quiet? Must charge iPad battery it is running out edit.