CHRISTMAS PACKED AWAY GETTING READY FOR DHAKA

I'm just burning the master for the third of the Cuban films, the first two covered cars, then there is the first of many truck volumes. The whole collection should be done by the end of this week, the first three are already listed on the shop, perhaps more later on today. Isn't it a shame that if someone has a problem they can't get in touch personley as suggested on our EBay shop notes, a DVD sent mid December hadn't arrived, obviously aggrieved they open a case on EBay, if we had known before we had left on Christmas eve we could have sent a replacement then and all would have been well, EBay always seems to encourage confrontation rather than simple sorting out, obviously if it isn't then sorted they are very welcome to open a case but nothing would ever need to get that far, with 100% on EBay and Amazon it really takes some doing keeping the sheet clean and anyone can hold you to ransom at any time so like others we just give a refund to close out the case. Those not willing to just let us know will needless to say be added to the blocked buyer list although I did have an amnesty before Christmas and cleared all previous problematic buyers to have another chance. We continue to be busy on the internet just as before Christmas.

Splitting the Cuban DVDs into sections on cars, buses and trucks is really vital as there are not that many people whose interests cross all genres but Cuba does make it difficult as most of the best trucks are a form of stage carriage and just about anything that moves is some form of public transport from carts to motorbikes etc. There are all sorts of weird and hard to understand laws governing vehicles most of which are at the end of the line vested in state ownership save those documented as having been privately used before the revolution. The state now has at least 3 coach lines for tourists and a couple for locals then all sorts of municipals and 'taxi' buses. Later trucks and buses which appear as American ( as in USA) are/were sourced from Canada, the old schoool buses are spread very widely although many not in service. School transport marked on a bus doesn't really mean it is used as such. Splitting the material means trawling through it several times to select the correct shots and some scenes may include more than one mode. All run over the minimum hour we like to offer.

We've put away the indoor tree and santa gnome that sister Yvonne gave us, yes we really will use it again. The outside tree is replanted in the garden. Shopping has been done despite the foul weather, we've dropped off a gift at our neighbours who so kindly rescued us when Arrow cars let us down on Christmas eve transport to the airport. We are catching up with a bit of television, Mandy has been doing here favourite, the ironing! The cases have gone back into the garage for a few weeks and now I must take a peek at Bangladesh weather! More shots on our journey through Cuba.