On the Sunday it's a day at the annual Festival of Brass Bands, the best bands in the world are gathered together to celebrate the variety and virtuosity of this all amateur music which can astound by it's complexity and art in performance. As there is no restaurant on a Sunday and we have afternoon and evening performances I think there girls are going to prepare a picnic, the bar certainly is open. This all reminds me that we should be making a move to get concerts booked as the season rolls by so quickly. As you get older everything becomes that much more of a challenge. We've swapped hotels in Mumbai to the usual Oberoi now they've dropped the price a little and BEST have responded to my request for a depot visit, I must seek out a suitable gift to take them. We have looked at the early spring bus rallies and are limiting those requiring long journeys, I need to get Detling booked as we hope to get filming done in Kent with some days there before the event at Maidstone. Lots of new buses at Canterbury crying out to be filmed! Anyway staying with Oxford lets see what I have from past visits.
We start to spread our wings a bit for the New Year as we head down to film at Oxford tomorrow, we'll set off very early and beat the traffic. It's going to be a busy week, friend Sue is joining us midweek to assist with the Bangers Beans and Bingo night at Plumley village hall Thursday when I recreate myself as a bingo caller for the evening. There haven't been that many advance bookings but hopefully we'll get a few on the evening. We need to pick up a book of raffle tickets as the good folk who were covering that section may not be able to but we'll make sure it's covered. I've got all the bingo cards at the ready and the number generator standing by on my ipad. We've ordered a box of pens from Amazon which I think we could sell at 50p, mind you perhaps we could include them! Before all the fun of that we have the visit to the RNCM on Wednesday, it's one of the routine performances that singers go through being judged performing before a real audience, nerve racking for them but hopefully enjoyable for us spotting future talents. We are meeting their marketing manager who we first came to know through a 'Friends' evening promoting the new sponsorship arrangements, we've upgraded to the Principle's circle as we enjoy investing in future talent and have a relationship of sorts with the college going back to my hippie days. On the Sunday it's a day at the annual Festival of Brass Bands, the best bands in the world are gathered together to celebrate the variety and virtuosity of this all amateur music which can astound by it's complexity and art in performance. As there is no restaurant on a Sunday and we have afternoon and evening performances I think there girls are going to prepare a picnic, the bar certainly is open. This all reminds me that we should be making a move to get concerts booked as the season rolls by so quickly. As you get older everything becomes that much more of a challenge. We've swapped hotels in Mumbai to the usual Oberoi now they've dropped the price a little and BEST have responded to my request for a depot visit, I must seek out a suitable gift to take them. We have looked at the early spring bus rallies and are limiting those requiring long journeys, I need to get Detling booked as we hope to get filming done in Kent with some days there before the event at Maidstone. Lots of new buses at Canterbury crying out to be filmed! Anyway staying with Oxford lets see what I have from past visits. If I get bored I'll start on the next DVD features resurrecting the Bus Spot series and my special on the history of Stagecoach, happy days - Souter is not a person to be neglected and this warts and all look back with recall some of the early aggressive moves they made. Picture from the Mirror 2013. Comments are closed.
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