VW START TO CRUMBLE

Mandy has really got the bit between her teeth and has launched a campaign which has already it seems born fruit with them collecting the van tomorrow morning and agreeing to fix the last fuel injector as they promised they had already done. This is all fine but we lost a days trading, a day filming and a wasted day on AA relay trucks. We have 27 tickets from the various AA and VW assist vans and trucks which have attended the series of fuel injector failures. We have the director responsible for VW UK and their office at Milton Keynes, Mandy was already planning a trip down to launch her protest. That is on hold but one foot wrong and its operation shame back on. ( just had a call, VW are picking the van up at 08.30 tomorrow.)

Hopefully Weebly will permit me to show you the Middlesbrough photos tonight as yesterday it all seemed to go up the swanny. It's been a hectic day and waiting for VW to ring we had to make sure that one of us was on hand to answer the phone. I got the covers done for the N East DVD releases and have nearly completed the three DVDs and clips should be on the Youtube channel, the DVDs are already listed on the shop page. After this it was back to the drive way preparation work, I went to B&Q and picked up thje rest of the kit I needed and then repaired all the mortar, broken bricks , gaps etc and thus ready for a clean up tomorrow.

The biggest job turned out to be the easiest, this was the drain cover which had partially collapsed, I had to scoop out a lot of earth and rubble, the paving people had leveled it with some rando9m pieces of untreated wood which had rotted, they are off my Christmas card list, to think we actually recommended them to other people. I have an old block of sharpening stone which was the same depth as the gap, this was hammered into position on the corner which had given way and seems to be rock solid for now. The next job is to use the cement repair kit for cracks and eroded sections, all relatively small areas. The forecast for tomorrow is superb for Carlisle so I'll be filming the rest of the Cumbria bus DVD then trucks for the rest of the day at the northern exit to Stobarts etc.

Next week we have Mon, Tues and first part of Wednesday in South Wales assuming the weather is ok. We hope to cover the new Newport bus station, Cardiff, Bridgend, Neath, Swansea, Haverfordwest and Carmarthen.

Photos in Middlesbrough yesterday