INDIAN SUMMER SHUFFLES ON TO THE SOUND OF STRIMMERS

Another quickie tonight as my usual high speed dash through life must go up yet another gear to get everything done against deadlines. I've the outside commercial film job to try and edit tonight and I've just been out and topped up the bird feeders, planted some cheapos that Mandy got at the cheapie German outlets can never remember, oh yes its Audi I think and Lidells, anyway something like that. Then I opened my latest world bus series from Atlas via China, a Skoda, looks vert nice CSAD livery, what else. A tiny bit of dislocation damage en route but soon put right. I managed to get out for a late lunch as it was relatively quiet and I'd had a big go at outstanding jobs in the morning so I headed down to Stobarts at Widnes, I was thinking there might have been new trucks but nothing yet certainly not one 64 reg in sight from any company. I saw my first pain job there so thats a record, the weather was hot and mainly sunny then started to cloud over.

I was looking up Cuba in advance of Christmas visit to ensure all was well with the golden oldies, I think the influx of new vehicles will be very slow and the oldies will still find homes somewhere. I like a photo I saw of a Thames trader truck bus, I wonder how that got there, shows there are many more things to be discovered, many thousands of elderly vehicles still kicking around, Sri Lanka may not be so fruitful, everything i see looks very modern, when Martin Rickitt went last they still used steam lorries on the road work gang and he isn't THAT old. Mandy has been getting the stock sorted out deay for the Irish trip to the Dublin Pioer rally weekend after next and this coming weekend its the big un back at the IWM at Duxford near Cambridge with around 500 buses expected at Showbus. We learn that the largest continental show in the Netherlands happens at the last weekend in July Star Truck I think its called so might pencil that in, they even carry on into the evening with the best lit trucks etc. Speaking of which Panama has bright lighted and noisey night time buses and in Japan they compete to have the biggest light shows on their trucks, the latter is tentatively on the drawing board for 2016.

Tonight I bring you Stobarts, must dash now my bowl of fruit is ready, day 2 of weekly diet days, pub night tomorrow!