TWO MORE PROGRAMMES FOR THE TRUCK FANS

It turned out to be a bit of a rough night with long periods of cramping in my muscles as the new knee manages to make me aware that it is constantly changing and improving but side effects are often suffered as progress is made. Thus the night passed slowly with at least four periods awake. I'd planned to be up early to do the planned truck filming and when I got up at 7 it was a clear sky and sun starting to rise. This meant I was on go mode and so I got up and handed over the DVD post to Mandy, had breakfast and then pottered off down the M6 amidst the morning traffic chaos in my little Toyota IQ. I went round the roundabout at junction 16 carefully weighing up the directio of the sun and decided to carry on to the Nantwich crewe junction on the A500. This roundabout is something special and I would guess is always likely to produce results whatever time of day and season.

There was a really good mix of lorries hurtling past, in summer i think you could get a spot to catch them in both directs, a lot of the photos need tidying up and join thousands of others which are slowly going through the sausage machine that is my photo trimming software and what I do if I have a few moments when I don't want to start anything afresh and can easily turn it off. I was luck to catch one of the famous Mornflake Scanias, then an old Foden on the back of another truck and anything classic only I can't remember what it was. The one that got away was a loco heading to Crewe railway museum on the back of a low loader , it came from behind when I had moved location down to junction 16 of the motorway, another new spot, no hassles there at all despite lots of police and highways agency who in fact had a chat. I did have only my second ever bad experience with a commercial driver albeit a drain gulper not an artic, he followed me when I returned to my car to move locations blocked me in and was quite threatening. I would imagine its on contract to the council although typically pikey it just had a mobile number, up to no good I would think.

Ehen I got back the clouds began to gather, Mandy had gone off to her Polio meeting and I washed my car and the van then the window surrounds with the remainder of the soapy water. I then filled up the freshly emptied recycle bin by hacking back at more dead foliage in the borders and then topped up the bird feeders. I had watched the Sparrowhawk munch its way through yet another Goldfinch, its favourite and may I say plentiful food. Clips on Youtube for today's trucks. The first of the 16mm films on EBay has its first bid, sods law the shortest and cheapest.