READY FOR THE MADAGASCAR TRIP

A couple of DVD orders on the phone this afternoon but the answer machine is now off as is the Amazon shop which has no holiday settings, EBay is on holiday advise mode, order if you wish but nothing goes out until 20th November and ditto our own shop but then if you are reading this you will have seen the message and indeed we have had adverts in the hobby press all advising of our November trip. I expect something of an avalanche of orders when we return. I've finished the DVDs and covers for this weeks film work and updated the DVD list on the shop front page. I'm adding the items to the shop this evening.

I finished off the garden with the remainder of the spring bedding plants and bulbs in position and cleared and prepared the storm damaged side trellis ready for reinstatement later in the year. I went to Ellesmere Port had my hair cut and picked up more bird food supplies. We did the banking this afternoon and sent off the post, the last batch goes out tomorrow morning, our flight is on Saturday. Our lovely neighbours are looking after the house for us. The builders of the new housing development down the road are ignoring the requirement by planners to use an access via the main road and still trundle their equipment along our small estate road, they then have to constantly send a road sweeper round which is causing tremor damage, almost like having fracking here. We already have the sink hole in the pavement but with a max fine at £2k I don't think they care a hoot.

Sue comes up tomorrow and we all go to a concert at the RNCM tomorrow night as well as eating there. Roger has just phoned with another last minute panic job for the WWI evening but I'll get it done in the morning for him. Other than that we are just about ready, packing my camera bag either this evening or in the morning, I've got all this weeks still images filed away although there is now a backlog waiting to go on the Smugmug still photo sales site, remember you can now download jpeg images and it even has a commercial use option. Photos from the A500 West yesterday.