BUSH ENGINEERING SAVES THE CINE SCANNER

I constructed a spool holder for feeding the cine scanner which has worked a treat and only one momentary interruption on three 400' reels. They do take so long, about 5-6 hours depending on how much has been crammed on to the reel, a problem in itself. The last of the Christmas decoration come down tomorrow, we've already taken the inside tree out with the intention of keeping it for next year. If we get some dry weather I could do with a go at the dead plants in the garden,well dead foliage thatis, if the plant was dead it would be dug up. Anyway we have a busy week coming up, Monday and Tuesday may take a bit of working on but the only free days next week. Wed we have a family wedding in the afternoon but also they are coming to repair the burst and make good the ceiling so they wiill have to carry on when I'm gone.  Then Thursday its the Polio Fellowship monthly meeting, we can go on our way back from Wales. Then Friday we have midday doctors checks just the annual mot as it were.

I got up early and entered up the information I'd gained on  Sam Osborne's past and relatives - it has proved difficult to get much further than the researchers in Kent who found all the clues and Sam's imprisonment on the Isle of Wight at the start of the war, he later volunteered for the parachute regt and died on the D-Day early morning drops intended to knock out control and command posts. He had been a steeplejack in civilian life. I also set the scanner off early to try the spooler and also cracked on with Bus Spot Ultra Sheffield which I finished this evening after a full days work on it, glad to get it out of the way I can now work on the Wrexham and Chester visits, shots from Wrexham...