OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS REALLY TAKING OFF NOW, SUBSCRIPTION CHANNEL OPENS THIS SUMMER

'm all packed up ready for my trip to Zagreb tomorrow, I think the tram fleet there is now very modern albeit with home grown models, the scene in Osijek is I assume still much different and a fresh look at Sarajevo with tram and trolleys should reveal a whole medley of second hand vehicles. So a journey of contrasts shall we say. I've got all the weekend DVD orders waiting to pack and get off in the post Monday morning. Mandy has been refreshing herself on the downloading and will hold the fort until I return a week yesterday. We had a superb concert last night at Clonter Opera near Congleton, the singing was first rate and the food was well up to standard in fact the dessert was quite scrumptious. I'm not sure if we'll have much time for scrumptious food in Croatia or Sarajevo but it will be very interesting to see how things have progressed, the last meals we had in Sarajevo were in the Italian where the US ambassador chain smoked through her meal, Mandy's walking stick with a brass head fell off the table on the tiled floor, the crack sent her bodyguards reaching for their guns and she dived under the table. I did have to admonish the waiter for putting the wrong flag on my sundae he replaced it with a Union Flag and apologised profusely, we all had a really good laugh when we went back the following night, I onder if the river is still well stocked with bats flitting down at night.

I'm on duty a second time today at St Oswalds with a Rogation Sunday outside service followed by a slide show in the school hall and buffet, we are contributing our last Christmas cake. Well only another four weeks and the nights start drawing in again, it soon comes round and nothing that really looks like summer yet in the North West of England. I still hope to get over to Belgium in June but jobs are stacking up before me and the front room still has to be decorated and the garden wall needs recementing. I've had another bash at the back garden and there only remains a small section to complete my first summer weed all round. I'll feed the plants , spray for bugs and scatter snail pellets may be mow the lawns before I go to the airport, it's a teatime flight which doesn't get in until 9.30 pm, there should be a bus connecting with the flight to the city centre. Zagreb is where i picked up a nasty food poisoning bug last time, I hope it's improved since then, our hotel at the time was mostly a refugee camp. Lets see what Balkan shots I have on file. First blog on the road is likely on Tuesday night.