STANDING BY TO BUILD AN ARC

What a week this has been, two hot days and a thunderstorm is the catch phrase for a British summer but uit was two hot weeks and then a week of storms this year. It has never relented, the time of day may have changed by eventually any hope of sun or dryness has been washed away by torrents and it is a wonder that we aren't reading about floods up and down the country. Thus it was this morning that the kitchen installation meant we had no water from the taps save that from on high. The missing piece of work top today arrived from Germany, still two hours late but no doubt that was down to the weather. I'm getting all my camera gear ready now for the trip to Malta on Saturday, Mandy is busy packing the clothes. We retreated to the Colonial Cafe today as there was no chance of brewing up at lunch time, accompanied by a very nice walnut cake for me and lemon tart for Mandy.

I've also got the posters ready for the film night in September but not the film, the tickets are also done. I've got all the magazine adverts covered and I've now uploaded all the new DVD releases on to our EBay shop and Amazon as well as the first port of call our own shop where you pay no postage wherever you may be, why not make that your first choice. I've been gleaning some material for the film evening and will trawl through my database to get some interesting and I hope topical clips from the past. Hopefully i'll find a few minutes to make small inroads in the mass of still images which need filing and uploading on our shop's Smugmug pages. Today I'm including scenes from Fareham and Portsmouth from last weeks visits.

After the Malta trip I hope to be visiting Hampshire for Basingstoke and Winchester after we have made our official visit to record Swindon Thamesdown, their archive we have made for many years. After that I have a trip scheduled for East Anglia and Essex possibly whilst Mandy is in Ireland. Herne Bay rally in August should see us do more in London and later in the summer we'll be tackling the North East. If I can bring myself to face it we'll do a bit of filming in Scotland around Lathalmond and later GVVT, Glasgow. I'm still on the look out for good weather days for Isle of Man and Channel Islands. Isle of Wight was abandoned as it was the festival when we were in Hampshire, once experienced while I tried to film, never again worse than scooter weekend.