Greetings From France

hello everyone we were up this morning at five am a slightly restless night we hsdvmsndys cousin Trish and Derek with us ready for an early departure for France. no problems with English motorways or French port and we had a leisurely drive through piccardy countryside to Corbie near Amiens where we are staying with that lovely couple ian and Miguel. Miguel has just lost his mother this week  so all tinged with some sadness but no other guests so everyone can relax and be themselves and not worry about the occasional year. it's lovely to be with family and friends once week out from my official retirement  aka redundancy. the weather this side is not sonbad I can't imagine an early start Sunday or Monday and relaxing will do us good. I managed to efit the first volume of Amsterdam trams yesterday and will conclude Netherlands next week. I hope to have newukbus and truck DVDs coming off the production line next week. the Amazon account is still suspended should be OK as soon as UK government registration number received and supplied to them, we did this nearly 30 years back but I even the tax people have lost all trace. best wishes and take care everyone Dave and Mandy