WARRINGTON AND ST HELENS THEN RAIN

It is now very autumnal with damp misty morning and shimmering watery sunshine breaking through in the afternoons followed by either rain or clear sky. The unsettled nature continues as it has most of this year which makes choosing destinations for filming very hit and miss, it took two tries to get Leicester. We had quite a few orders to get ready this morning then I had a short meeting with vicar Jane on various happenings at St Oswalds over the past week or so and also the progress on my minitry course. All very productive then with the sky seemingly brightening I decided nearby was best so headed for Warrington. I haven't had so much low level hassle anywhere like this for ages, it must be the soaps suds in the atmosphere, they were leaping out in front of the camera from every angle and seem surprised that you get annoyed, bunch of yobs, too much money in warrington they need a bit of hardship again to get them off planet zog, spread the wealth around the region instead of concentrated in hot spots. The bus drivers were as friendly as ever though, no miserable devils there, Fairbrothers with more variety of vehicles are now of course low floor for scheduled services, also Howards deckers, the network services some of which reach St Helens my next destination.

I was worried that it would be too sunny with shadows but need not have concerned myself as it went very overcast and eventually rain stopped play.  Again lovely friendly drivers and lots of examples of the new Arriva livery on Merseyside vehicles. As it was later than I would usually have visited I was given the curse of the schoolchildren cum louts and cocky sods, some decided to have a go at me, a community support lad was nearby by the time I stopped and spoken to him you couldn't see them, they had galloped off as fast as their decrepit young egos could run. I may need to get a little of something else in Merseyside to add to St Helens to get enough for a programme. Traffic weasn't bad and I was home just after 5pm. Lets though not go straight to buses as I haven't shown anything yet from my stopover at Crick yesterday although Leicester buses is burning to DVD as I write.