MIDLAND CLASSIC MAKES FOR A CLASSIC VISIT TO BURTON

aMandy is well on her way home now, probably bobbing up and down outside Holyhead harbour, a bit of a bumpy sale. What a scorcher it was today, really humid after all the rain and 20C in Stafford. I had a rough night with my knee, the muscles in my leg were in spasm like growing pains in a teen. This kept on until about 2.30 am , I tried a painkiller but it didn't touch it at all. In the end I decided to get up and get on with the jobs which need doing and foremost amongst these was getting the cine films on to the computer tweaked p a bit and then load them on Youtube, mission successful. Thats one pile done and about twenty more piles to tackle. It takes quite a while as I need to take still for EBay as I relist them all, getting the first one right was the hardest part, still masses more. At least the next tranche of Mini dv tapes arrived today. I'm adding the content to our database of film reels as I go. I think I'm starting to wilt a little now not having any sleep.

I got over to Burton upon Trent by about 8.20, parked up just around the corner from the crossing at the centre of the action. Thankfully I had the video ready to roll as a Routemaster of Classic Midland came heaving around the corner, sorry no still shot but there were more gems to come from this remarkable fleet. Getting from Burton across to Stafford is a bit of a cross country orienteering course for cars but it was even worse as I drew near and found myself caught in road closures with diversions which took about half an hour to battle through. Getting parked up was sort of hard, depended where you tried, over at Sainsburys it turned out to be a bit of a doddle. It took me some time to get back into the swing of things as I hadn't filmed there for a good many years but an interesting duo on this our latest presentation. Talking of presentations I need to get the ones done for the Round Table in a week or twos time.

So without further yawning lets have some photos from Burton, all hail the Marmite factory. Hmmmmmm......!!!! yummy.