BBC WEATHER THEY MUST HAVE GOT US MIXED UP WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY

It should have been a mainly sunny day today but instead we got rain other then some early sunshine and my plans were thus partly thwarted so I ended up going to Birkenhead and filmed the buses in the morning the plan to go on back to film trucks on the temporary road system around Widnes was abandoned as it heaved sown. I ended up catching up with Mandy at Knutsford, we did some banking and came home I was really ready for a brew by then. wasn't anything appealing about Birkendhead, it's been a while since i'd visited, I used to have apprentices at the college there at work but since I retired I've steered clear. It's still at the bottom of the barrel, most of the shops are shuttered up and night clubs and pawn shops together with the inevitable pound shops are all there are.

The buses were quite frequent and the sun was ok from the roundabout near the tunnel although you had to keep rnning from one spot to another to get all the buses in all directions, the Avon deckers escaped me somehow. In the afternoon I had a serious session after the rain stopped planting shrubs and tidying the borders, lawns, feeding birds, mowing and all good things. An early tea as we are off to Stockport to St Thomas's for the Arch Deacons visitation service and swearing in as church warden, Keith my fellow CW is picking us up and sidemen Brian and Rodney both previous wardens are coming along. We had a productive PCC meeting last night and just about got where we needed to be at. Must rush photos from Birkenhead this morning. Hopefully I'll get Taunton and Birkenhead edited tomorrow.