CATCHING UP ON Co DURHAM BUSES TODAY

Today I was up very early and in Bishop Auckland ready to film the rush hour bus services, this early rising paid dividends as I caught a few school services and all in all it was an interesting visit to a location I'd not covered for some years. Even more behind was our coverage of Chester le Street, Stanley and Consett where it's been a decade since I visited. I hardly recognised some of the scenes but soon picked up on my usual photo spots. The weather was mixed, dry but windy and very cold but varying levels of cloud or sunshine. I came and went  over the A66 which was a good thing as I'd forgotten about the A1 road works which go on forever and like the M60 around Manchester seem to have been in place for a decade. It was a good craic in Co Durham, everyone was very friendly and the car parks were only 60p for a couple of hours except at Stanley where they pay you for visiting ( only joking), actually I met a young enthusiast there who was a mine of info on local services, Stanley Motors survives with just one service bus although they obviously have contract work and coaches, even saw a decker at the bus station. Consett lookled quite nice in the sunshine. I got back home at 5pm, we are having our fasting days Mon/Tues this week as we have a cream tea on Wednesday at Clonter opera.

Tomorrow I'm scheduled to be at Crick near rugby filming the trucks at the distribution centre, I must check the latest weather forcaste. May Blossom our dear leader blessing be upon her is issuing our piss off notice to the EU on Mandy's birthday, I think Mandy would have appreciated something better than that. I've just finished sending off the copy for the May magazine PMP adverts and changes to our email. I managed to copy the cine film for John Bishop and the windmill crowd in Sussex and our friend at Clonter who wanted me to have another bash at his ancient Oxford sports day shots. I'll try and get these edited this evening. The photo slide show this evening was at Bishop Auckland at 8am onwards this morning. Rothbury cards have some super new images for 2017, already considering our Christmas card!