March 29th, 2015

Well the sun has finally come out although its still blowing a gale outside, what a horrid weekend it has been for weather, cold, damp and windy and the spring has been like that pretty well every day. It certainly seems to have put a lot of people off coming along to Boyle st, the sense of friendship is as alive as ever but can the event survive at this low ebb. Sunday is always the quieter day but this one was beyond description and it isn't really worth the fuel going along. I was thus amazed to see that more people are trying to drag events out over two days such as the Dublin Port rally and new Bridgeton at Glasgow are prolonging the agony and doubling the cost as we'd need two nights accomodation rather than one plus eating out  and you can be sure that there won't be double the sales to match it. The same happens at most events over a day, I can think also of Gaydon Saturday is the quiet day, Truckfest-Sunday they start leaving at 11am, Llandudno Monday is gone home day. This will all mean a review yet again of what we can attend, Lathalmond for instance has long been an act of charitable support staying for the two days, with the draconian new drink drive laws in Scotland you can't even risk going for a meal out .

I've just finished the first of the two Isle of Man archive features , I've put the rest of the sound track on and the DVD is burning. I want to get the other one edited later. I've also put a few more Crimea trolleybus clips on Youtube, the Isle of Man clips will be there too before the evening is out. I might try and get the coaching holidays to Scotland on DVD, I've a reel I bought off EBay to get sorted . So much coming up in the next few weeks. I really hope this weather packs in soon. I did battle with the weather at Manchester today and snatched a couple of photo of the few visiting buses.