FILMING AT LYMM AND APPLETON FOR TRUCKS

We were fairly late up this morning, we must have needed the sleep, unless we are going out filming etc I don't bother with an alarm. After getting all the orders ready to go out Mandy packed them up and posted them off while I went the short distance down to Lymm so I could keep up with the lorry side of filming. I did Lymm Poplar Services very quickly then it slowed for lunch but another first I went and filmed the other side of the motorway junction at Lymm which picks up the trucks going to and from Stobarts HQ at Appleton, the light wasn't brilliant so I adopted a manual mode at high speed and plenty of light to brighten it up , I also had a trip to Appleton but it wasn't really the day for that spot and I only needed a few more shots to finish off the second hour. All this took a while slightly later than I had envisaged and when I got back on the M6 it had needless to say clogged up as usual so was in a queue all the way to junction 19.

I then got both white cars back to their original colour as both were pretty grotty with all the bad weather motoring, it took a lot of time to get both cars looking as they should, the van is untouched since I gave it a supper autumn valet after the Big Orange show at Manchester. Talking of which we have all the replacement DVD stock and recent items to add to our DVD sales at the Boyle St sale Christmas Cracker in December. A couple of projects in mind a big apple for West Yorkshire to match the big orange of Manchester and then the Stagecoach story followed by Arriva and First Group plus maybe Transdev etc in due course that should all keep my busy over the winter. I've downloaded all the Suoper8 digitised images and need to get then ready for selling and clips to Youtube, they are all loaded on to the computer, I'll probably put them on widescreen and it doesn't mean that much distortion to the Super8 images and there are plenty of gems among them. Sales now buoyant with publication of latest Buses magazine. So tonight's images come from this morning and early this afternoon at Lymm. Tomorrow all being well a very early start and we'll be covering Peterborough and Cambridge. Zhang from China emailed, did we want to go back there in 2018, I made a polite excuse, a bit too much in 2016 without a return.