another relaxing day although we have monitored the large volume of orders which have been streaming through on the net over the weekend and all will be downloaded tomorrow evening and posted out Tuesday morning. Graham have to get up for work very early but we heard nothing and slept through to after eight am and had a culpa with Yvonne and then went to Lyndhurst in the new forest where we met up with my middle sister Margaret and had a delicious breakfast just near the car park. we then had a slow potter around the shops and got embroiled in conversion with a spiv in a tatty secondhand jewellery shop until we managed to escape and catch the others up. it seemed no time at all before we were sitting down to afternoon tea, piggy here got stuck into a dessert portion of treacle tart and clotted cream and tea, Mandy had their home made giant mince pie. we got back to Yvonne,s and had a brew before getting the last bibs and bobs loaded for the trip east to Sussex which was a clear run other than the usual crawl into polgate from Lewes, at least the treaclemine is handy just left at the junction and later John and Maureen bishop will meet up for dinner after a concert at the congress theatre. in the morning assuming the weather is suitable I'll be filming firstly at Eastbourne and then on to Brighton. John and Maureen have just arrived so it's over and out until tomorrow.

what a day a nice rest in bed and it was nearly lunchtime when we  had eaten breakfast and had decided on an itinerary for the day.we settled on Winchester as it had  a Christmas market on but when we arrived it was evident that the rest of Hampshire had woken with the same idea. luck was with us and we landed a parking place just near the cathedral . the Xmas market was in the precincts of the church and to say it was crowded was an understatement . Mandy was using the wheelchair which made progress even slower very little is accessible anywhere but with the cross I think the traders were struggling as people couldn't stop to browse in comfort. we did manage to but a wrought iron tiny hedgehog which will remind us of the recent mortality in the greenhouse. passing the food section of little Santa huts we spotted the luxury chocolate stand but what were actually on sale at a pond a throw were sticky thinly covered marshmallows with various flavours not particularly Moorish. then Yvonne spotted the caramelised nut stand only they were more like salted than caramelised. we decided to move on and seek out a few shop but is was heaving everywhere so we packed up and headed off to another place with a giant m&s store. they had some sort of sale on but it wasn't really evident what was included and what the discounts were which smacked rather of sharp practise. in the cafe there was an absence of bakewell tart although it turned out they had loads in the back but given the state of the place it seemed that nobody cared , there were no forks but requests were ignored finally a supervisor chanced upon our problem and got the place into gear. Graham regaled us with tales of their recent trip to the states when he was pulled at the security section in the UK as he was they thought an Algerian which was really random although sorted out it was in his mind as when arriving in the states they pulled him in at immigration with more random excuses it wasn't his day anyway all turned out well in the end and I bought Yvonne her first Christmas snowball globe for 2015 yet another for her collection. Mandy bought a dress and me a shirt, my eyes were now glazed over and a trance coming on so we called it a day and headed back home for a catch up on the soaps we had missed last night . we are out at the horse and jockey pub this evening although I think I'll need a five mile hike to work up an appetite. loads of orders have been coming through on the net all will be processed on Monday night of first thing Tuesday.

greetings readers world wide as we write from my sisters house near Fareham in Hampshire. we left about 1.30 pm and had an amazingly good journey considering it was a Friday afternoon. really we flew down and were at Fareham at teatime, Yvonne and Graham have been very busy at work and are looking forward to a restful weekend which I think are sentiments we agree with and the slowdown in activity has paid dividends for my knee. I don't intend doing much tomorrow I would expect the girls will be heading to the shops even the pmp shop has its own British version of black Friday only with out all the hassle I think I set it until Saturday night. it has been pretty hectic and Mandy haS cleared all the orders placed before lunch time. I did get the third volume of the west Midlands bus archives done last night but the YouTube clips will have to wait until Tuesday evening. we are meeting John and Maureen Sunday evening and heading back up to Cheshire Monday hopefully after I've managed to get some bus footage in Eastbourne and Brighton. we are eating out tomorrow night so perhaps a very late blog afterwards.

we had a great  day our first non transport weekend for a very long time, this is my first posting using
the new hurl thingey , we are staying with our friend sue at Cannock . we had quite a late start this morning which was very pleasant. a few chores to be gotten out of the way one of which was getting the west Yorkshire cine archive cover done which along with other recent releases has been added to the Amazon shop plus they are all on our own shop. one problem I often encounter is people searching eBay and expecting to find all our DVDs whereas there are just a few samples its far too expensive to have that many listed. Amazon is better value for shop. this keyboard is pretty crap as it struggles to leave gaps between words. we headed off down the m6 only to get stuck behind a wide load but it was empty once we had passed. we had shepherds pie and a few classes of plonk and then headed into Birmingham and had the usual struggle to find disabled parking near the theatre . it was Rossini,s William tell which is diverting stuff although sue thought the overture might have cropped up again. late back having mince pies and some more wine, just remembered I had a delicious ice cream in the interval which was stemginger and honey flavour. tomorrow we are having a trip to Ludlow .