LAST BLOG BEFORE MY UKRAINE TRIP

Good evening to our readers world wide, customers, friends, relations et al, well I've printed off my boarding cards for the LOT flights via Warsaw to Lviv which I'll land after midnight tomorrow well Monday actually. I hope there aren't lengthy delays in immigration as I've a transfer awaiting me on arrival. I understand it's one of the busiest weeks in the year for air travel so I'll add my own little contribution to the chaos. I've needless to say had a busy day, I woke early so got up to the annoyance of Mandy and cracked on with my jobs and soon has the DVDs ready for the orders although I had saved some downloading from EBay etc for Mandy to have a refresher with. We got all these away this morning. We had to wait at home until my replacement camera arrived  a Canon G16 just like the one I had which sustained a damaged lends banging against the tripod head lever, I must remember to take one of my toe sleeves which I got after my toe procedure - we have several spare which should fit nicely and prevent any damage on yet another still camera. It will be a lot easier having one I'm used to and can actually hold.

I've had a tidy up around the garden, pruned roses, sprayed them, fed plants, swept up so it looks sort of ok but not enough time to weed around the borders in the back garden. I ran off the rest of the cine films I started to copy last night, some nice stuff on a six reel job lot that I'd buried under a load of shopping bags Mandy uses for post etc. Mandy got a pile of sweets for me to pack when she took the post round this morning. I dropped off a couple of items I'd borrowed and a DVD I'd promised to let a neighbour have, remember the production I did on Lower Peover Pageant of 1969, that's the one. Then there was the programme for the event I'd been loaned, that's back with it's owner, I hate having things on loan don't you? I'm now copying some of the cine films from the various collections I own, some I had to get bank loans to purchase back in the 1980's, now I will be putting them on EBay to test the market , if they fetch enough they will help fund more trips worldwide. A background effort of family history going on which looks like linking my Irish roots to the O'Driscoll family of travellers in West Cork. We head off down to Heathrow in the morning but before dinner tonight I'm going to put the ribbons around the toilet at St Oswald's ready for the opening ceremony tomorrow which of course I'll miss. Photos from Cornwall conclude would have concluded the catch up with our trip to the South West but I seem to have lost them copying to the drive when changing camera today.. After Ukraine we have Scotland for Lathalmond plus borders region and then East Anglia and Essex including some trucks. At the beginning of September our pilgrimage walk in the Peak district. Lets look back at Poland as I am copying 1974 film from there.