DAVE RATTLES THROUGH CHINESE DVDS

Taiyuan, China, a couple of weeks back

our best guide on the trip, Bill

got us into depots and termini

and found this yet another coal mine trolley system

Another week nearly gone, where do they go, well since China its been a whirlwind really, last weekend with Newcastle, Durham and then Truckfest, this weekend John and Maureen up from Sussex. Over in China, Zhang from CBRI is working on a possible North Korea trip for us, tentative at present. I'm still bashing my way through editing the Chinese films, nearly two thirds through though thank goodness. I'm also out every evening now in the garden, the triffids are thrusting skywards, perennial Geraniums are the worst. The snails are having a feast and the bedding needs hardening off.

I got a few basket / pot plants from B&Q today ( don't you just hate them, they were also in China), I got watered by an android in the garden section, lobotomy are nerscessary qualification for working there. Planning to take John to Preston ( no he didn't do anything wrong) then on to either Blackpool or the lakes perhaps. Sunday its our POPS rally at Wedgwood Centre Barlaston near Stoke, free bus services throughout the day and a new museum on site, hard standing, last minute vehicles and stands always welcomed, just praying for dry first, sun second, no wind third and heat wave fourth! In planning, well actually confirmed are trips to Belfast, Isle of Man, Malta, late August Devon, Cornwall, Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney. Late r this month we have our trip to the outer islands of the Shetlands, Fair Isle, Foula and Out Skerries, not many buses that week but have new bird watching binoculars at the ready.