NOW THAT WAS A HOT ONE FOR CHESHIRE

I was at Astle Park steam rally the time it last set an all time high for temperature in Cheshire, pity the poor devils on the steamers that day, in the great British tradition of looking after each other the price of a bottle of water soared during the day like the temperature. It was already hot when I woke in the night as something didn't seem right, the electric had gone off and the clock had stopped so I didn't even know the time but I wandered down to the garage and reset and it all came back on other than  all the things which need resetting. It was 5.30 am, I went back to sleep until 7.30 then started on with my jobs. I'm now on editing the last of the DVDs from my trip to Hampshire and Dorset and will soon be starting getting the covers done. It was quite busy at church this morning even though I was there early, there was a baptism as well. The toilet really does look as if it could be ready for the hand over on Tuesday afternoon, the electrician was even working today. A lot of ground restoration has taken place , a last few tiles to go on the floor and touch up painting and commissioning of the auto septic tank which returns clean water to the stream.

Our neighbour there is happier about the view from their cottage and is even going to take cuttings from their garden to plant along the plain wall. I've got a few DVD orders to get ready, I'm off truck filming but will try to get back to post stuff off before 5pm, it's Ross on Wye, Monmouth, Bristol circuit. Magazine adverts all sent off, Mandy should be meeting her cousin from New Zealand in Cork tomorrow . To cool off I managed to stay awake through an old film on talking pictures channel, dinner is nearly ready, I did a bit of shopping after church, got fresh flowers around the house ready for Mandy coming home Tuesday. Had a Redwing in the garden on the fat feeder, a first for our little patch.There will be another pile of clips to go on Youtube, talking of which the ordinary channel is doing really well, the adverts must be better targeted but don't let up clicking on adverts which appeal, it's your future visits invested in the advertising revenue returns.

Generally it's been a quiet week for DVD, the heat in the UK I think to blame but I'm not knocking it! Photos from Southampton yesterday. It seems a shame that tradegy strikes again this eek with the appalling fire in London but again exposes the Tory disdain for any but the rich and powerful in our country, another notch in the progress which will see Jez get to No10, for the uninitiated much of his income is given away to various charities - I believe the Yanks are having a hard time recognising they might have to deal with what looks to them like Chavez or Castro only without the desire for bloodshed. At one meeting where Chez was grilled over his anti nuclear stance a lady stood up at the end and demanded why so many of the audience wanted to see our planet blown to pieces!