MARK ELDER GIVES IT SOME WELLIE

Its been a quiet week for orders, hope you'll be inspired to remedy that but it gave us time to get to the Halle last night despite a smash on the M%^ which caused Mandy to go into divert mode around the back of the airport. A Wagner evening interspersed with Elgar's Sea Songs, all very pleasant, inspiring and stunning. He certainly gets the most out of an orchestra.

We are still working on the truck archives, a couple should be ready this weekend. The You Tube and blog don't seem to have produced any contacts so far, is it a waste of time. I know at least one of you is reading the blog as we have discussed scanning negatives. Anyone else out there, I used to get loads of feedback from the newsletter ( well more than now).

Family history, researchers now contacted for Ireland re my natural father, fingers crossed.

Autobiography, a local publisher in Sussex contacted re my early Sussex days as a stand alone.