TODAY FILMED HALIFAX AND BRADFORD

Well a good start with email and in person messages from two mothers whose children are great fans of their old mate Dave and can do all the thumbs up and we'll see... stuff. It is humbling and very satisfying to know we help out so much keeping children occupied specially during the lock downs and all year round. It is extra special for those with various leaning disorders and we have managed to meet up with several who wanted to see the old fellow in the flesh.

I think anywhere where Arriva plays a large part in the public transport will go to the back of the to do list as the strikes seem to have spread nationwide. While we are on strikes, the post will be disrupted a certain extent in the coming months with walk outs all over the country.

The weather was much better in Yorkshire than the BBC weather forecast suggested, in the end it was warm, mostly sunny and dry - just a bit of a stiff breeze now and then.

I've nearly finished the colourisation of our new production on Liverpool On Film 1920-80's all in colour. I'm not sure how the AI managed to get the Liverpool trams green but it seems to have worked on the frames I've viewed. Still a lot more to get the project completed but it will be in Ultra HD and 60 fps. The download will replicate this fine as will the Youtube clips for projects like this where we can share them. This is still very much a development stage in the operation.

Tonight some shots from Halifax, tomorrow I'm down in Shrewsbury with Peter Waller at the OTA archive. Halifax bus station new build is well underway, the temp facility is small and has few services using it, the rest are scattered everywhere!