HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM DAVE AND MANDY AT PMP

Our first blog of the New Year, we stayed up and watched the London fireworks and put up with the awful music, I suppose we could have turned the sound down. Anyway there was a local display going on in the distance which finished about 12.30pm and then we got to sleep and had a lay in this morning. No orders at all overnight but they have already started again this evening. Youtube seems quite dead, I expect folk have better things to do, I did look at some stuff on Flickr the other night but why would anyone post there when for better or worse Google has it sewn up with youtube. I'm working on more original masters for unedited archives on Youtube and for download on our shop, these are ongoing lots more goodies including brilliant Glasgow and superb German scenes but so much more. I'm also starting to load up the video tapes as a resource, I'd better keep track of everything though! Actually I'm doing three things at once now, typing the blog afterwards putting more of this years DVD output on as downloads and copying Standard8 cine and upstairs in the studio downloading 8mm tapes to digitise and upload. Yes who says mean can't multitask.

I do have to have a bit of a run around every now and then to make sure all my plates are still spinning, the cine is prone to dust or hairs getting in the gate and ruining the image. The joys of yesteryear but when everything was spot on didn't it look good when projected. There is some Belgian Vicinal going through at the moment, hardly looks as if its been shown at all, amazing image quality from the David Howarth collection in the PMP archive.Is is really quite good fun watching scenes I haven't viewed for decades, I've forgotten how much I have, its not just the trams and trolleys but the street scenes in genera, it's on Italy now ends with Spain and Portugal-sublime. After we had had our lunch banana , yes back to dieting two days  week we had a drive out to the Wrirral and did the coastal run, bright and breezy and quite chilly. Not too much light cloud cover forecast, looks mainly like sun which isn't so good for bus film work but we now have a list of destinations to work through in January. Some shots from West Derby and New Brighton this afternoon.

A few more shots from yesterday at Appleton Thorn near Lymm, Cheshire.