LOTS OF PROGRESS BUT SO MUCH TO DO

I wish we could get another 20 hours in a day then maybe I'd catch up to where I'd like to be. It was the remembrance day service at St Oswalds then home for a brew and off to the Royal Northern School of Music in Manchester, where our small band of 46 have it seems raised nearly £1/4M is the 5 years of the Principle's Circle. I managed to ask the principle Linda Merrick if the college would be able to support the platinum jubilee concert in June 22, of course the Queen's continued indisposition is raising lots of concern. Anyway we have Linda Merrick on board and should be able to muster good support to Linda Richardson renowned soprano who has already kindly offered her services. We also chatted to a couple we have met several times at the college who had experience in long distance bunting ( 10miles they did) making our bid for 3 miles linking lower Peover and Plumley quite modest.

Our entertainment and food was by the regular team led by our new head of personal giving and our lovely Jose head of catering. We enjoyed our first live music for two years and still have the WNO at Llandudno to look forward to later this month with Butterfly.

I need to get something together to circulate on the sponsorship of PMP to the MWVRT where we were entertained yesterday in royal style among the buses and indeed on the buses no less. I'm going to put a short film together promoting the trust and our sponsorship. Some very kind words have come back and all i can do is unreservedly recommend the NWVRT for anyone who wants to get up close and personal with a bus project to look up their website. They also have one of the best bus running days which in 22 reverts back to June.

We have had a shower of DVD orders the covers for which I still need to get ready for Mandy to pack tomorrow. I'm filming trucks at Newark, tomorrow buses at Grimsby and Scunthorpe then Mandy is going with me Thursday to Bath and Swindon again for buses.

I've also been plodding through the artificial intelligence editing and have already loaded a series of clips on Martin Rickitts 1989 trip to Vietnam, they will pop up same time each day for 5 days and this is to keep our world wide audience second rank after UK, Vietnam entertained. Who would think that they bat all other comers from Europe, the Americas, etc. Here are some DVD stills, remember it was shot in 1989. The mix of formats cuts off a chunk from these shots but they will play a part in the DVD cover!