SUNNY DAY BUT COLD IMMINGHAM TRUCKS TOMORROW

A quick blog as dinner is nearly ready, I've been getting all the DVD orders ready fopr mAndy to pack tomorrow while I'm over at Immingham with our first visit of the year to this popular lorry destination which always delivers a great sequence of scenes and several DVDs. Hoping for a clear run over, it is motorway / dual carriage all the way. We've had a house clean session  today, coming to terms with losing our cleaners, ok saves money but time is so precious to us.

Tomorrow the shops and hair dressers etc reopen and you can eat and drink as long as it is outside. Our local is not opening until we can sit inside, really it all depends on the weather. I'll probably go filming in Wrexham some time this week to celebrate the welcome back to people from outside Wales, may be even down to Cardiff, I doubt if I'll ever want to visit Newport after the awful time I had with the shopping centre thugs who are next to the bus station, even the local police couldn't get them to listen, obey the law and calm down. How can we tolerate such behaviour but then it is no different from the right wing terrorists who are sheltered by bus companies.

I have got all the recent photographs from March and April trips filed away and put the digitised film of Portugal 1990 on to the drive I keep for OTA. I have also been downloading or should it be uploading the results of my Sept 1999 tour of the Caucasus which despite a slightly broken video camera managed to capture scenes so transient that they are now but distant memories to people in the three main countries visited and adds to the material we will have as raw archive footage, much of it has not been on DVD, those we produced were pruned down to exclude much of the non transport scenes now much in demand. It will give me things to put on Youtube.

Meanwhile among the photos I filed were those from Doncaster last week so here is a slide show of them. I have also done a lot of work on the junction outside Derby bus station on my diorama, which although not actually depicting Derby does retain a lot of the accurate layout and now is stitched to the 1980/90s scenes to the left whiich has also gained vehicles this week.

At St Oswalds this morning we had a service which was shared throughout all C of E churches which reflected on Dike of Edinburgh.