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PMP Work in handI was very busy last night working on the new regional bus archive programme with about a third of images trimmed and the whole hour on the computer. A lot to go so fingers crossed that I make it for Boyle St. John Bishop was due this weekend but has been taken ill, this might mean a delay on the London Trolleybus film also the Best Ever London Country. Hope you are fit again soon John. Looks as if I'll be writing Christmas cards instead of sinking Guinness
Someone remind me what my fourth picture was all about, a strip from an early trip to Warrington, I also did my first video there. The others are a bit more obvious, it really was a good spot in those days. I finished the LT trolley bus film after tea, car loaded for Boyle St, rendering some images before copying, perhaps I'll be able to put a clip on You Tube tomorrow night. Also sent out news letter re direction to blog etc.
anyone remeber the old Trans Lancs rallies in the 70s / 80s which ran in Bury, still going but now ends at Heaton Park
Mandy and Sue in France last weekend, back to work now
Well as promised the great dinner at Le Macassar at the weekend courtesy of Miguel, the upside down pear pudding with home made ice cream and the venison with mash/carrots plus cabbage, all preceded by chunky salmon steak.
for a drive through the colourful autumn forest, here Mandy found both new boots and shoes . The nearby Chateaux was shut but we visited the armistice site and museum which is in a forest clearing, hence the WWI French Char tank photo. The weather was glorious on Saturday / Sunday hence a few minutes bus filming at Compiegne and thus the bus photos, friendly crews all the way. A rotten drive down though on the Friday awful heavy rain, traffic and dark, it took nearly 11 hours from my office to the hotel. Le Macassar also houses 2 cats and a very friendly dog.
A good vdrive back up Sunday evening which made up for Friday and now to catch up on e bay sales, work etc. More of the puddings tomorrow.
We have also had yet another session loading up on e bay and this Birkenhead Guy Arab is just one of the many bargains there from PMP
Working backwards to Friday, I fill up with fuel in Runcorn where they do it for you, saves getting your hands dirty, this time they put petrol in the deisel car so had to wait while it was drained and then refill, managed to pick up the spare cover for my still camera, quoted ?55 for sending away plus 4 weeks to do, paid ?15 for the spare and took a chance, it was a push fit and took 5 seconds. Saturday we went to the midlands.
. The Hippodrome is a great place but first we visited the National Trust Back to Back houses next door and the sweet shop
A great performance by WNO of Tristan und Isolde, the evening flew by, we had sandwiches and cake in the interval. We've had some of my family history this week so now something from Mandy, it stands in the halway at No17 and is a family heirloom with several generations riding upon this rocking horse which was restored by friend Sean Cavanagh in Ireland.
The next DVD project now underway, look for these photographs on the cover all coutesy John Bishop. Trooleys in London , afterlife in Spain plus preservation.Ordered spares for my broken still camera and collected extra bird food for the garden, tomorrow I've got a meeting in the lakes so probably little to report. Working on a big e bay loading at the weekend for auctions.
, so cameras out in Sussex as well.I must get more stuff photographed ready for e bay, its been a good month and don't want to let the momentum go.
Arriva registration of routes to run on all Chester Buys routes in the New Year which would see them run into the ground a bit like Stagecoach used to do at Lancaster and Darlington. Other photographers were out and about as well. Saturday was the annual LOTS sale at the harrow Leisure centre. Our best day ever, it was almost like being back at the Westminster venure with quite large crowds at times, great to meet everyone, John and Maureen Bishop joined us, John signed his books and I even pressed the flesh and signed DVDs! Isn't fame wonderful. John and Maureen joined us at the hotel ( Premiere Travel Inn) South Epsom where we usually stay and had a good dinner, as usual a good quiet night at this location after some fireworks earlier. Sunday we visited my family in Stoneleigh and had late Sunday lunch on Epsom Downs overlooking the racecourse, but I forgot to take my camera.
The seagulls are there along with the 'singing' wires and frogs.. photo again courtesy Photobus, which makes me think how quiet it will be setting up at Boyle St in December instaed of competing with Arnold Richardson for access, it never mattered how early I got there, Arnold would always have squeezed his large car right down to his tables, then complain about the heater warping his photos! Still we miss them when there are gone. Next we have a London B type bus circa 1914, an Airfix model, for sale on my e bay site this week, no offers yet so hurry, Airfix went bust this year, happy childhood memories of glue and paint, made everything from Henry VIII through to Spitfires.These buses even went off to the front in the 1st World War, Old Bill they were called, painted brown khaki. Then lets recall that Sunday in the potteries, I must get the DVD done for the event. The next archive feature will probably still be the London Trolleybus then Swifts / Merlins and possibly then London Country. Somewhere along the line Alan Mortimers Australian film may see more releases, there are some wonderful scenes. The blog is picking up visitors worldwide, remember for US you can view the DVDs on your computer even without a multi format DVD which of course is the very best option.
