SPOTLIGHT ON LONDON BUSES

stills from our latest London archive, not bad from standard 8 amateur film eh.

A pleasant evening at the Three Greyhounds, quite a crowd in as one of the barmaids was leaving to play Minnie Mouse in Paris Disneyland, she is a dance and cute small so well suited to the suit as it were. Bad news that regular John from round the corner is probably in his lasts days in the hospice, such a pleasant chap.

Its been very mild the last couple of days, praying for some dry weather for Saturday as we make our way along North Wales coast tomorrow and remember no blog Saturday as we'll be in Anglesey overnight, back on Sunday though. Picking up on EBay and Amazon at last, if you are holing off please get your orders in now before it gets near Christmas and we start packing for our long journey. Thomas Fischer promises that the intra Express tours will all be listed in full in English by next week.

Tonight I'll be putting the sound on the latest George Roberts London archive and getting the DVD done, hopefully some photos attached with this blog, it rendered overnight, a process to take in all the colour, brightness and framing changes. I think it turned out better than I hoped especially at 67 minutes, that will take a bit of doing on the sound front. What next after that, more trucks at some stage as I want to keep the momentum but then I'll start the next Archive, Liverpool, Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales…. The next one after that will be the South West Cornwall, Channel Islands, Devon, Somerset, looking a head they Lancashire one will be ready for the spring Boyle St sale in March. These really do take quite a lot of time up.

Releases from the archive will be all Greater Manchester pre DVD era releases grouped by area, say Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Manchester etc. Again perhaps ready by Spring. More Scottish archives and grouping by location. From the Caucasus our coverage of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan which have been quite topical this year with the South Ossetia war.

There always seems to be so much to go at, what will go out the window next year, Germany looks as if its going to fade away and we'll have China, Portugal, Canada, Malta/Sicily plus West of England LWE and Scotland LWE. If I can tie in with any bank holidays it will save the odd day's leave although that will be eaten up with things like a wedding in Sussex in September.