I finally bit the bullet and did mine, and I was quite pleased at how simple it was. I bought a set of ten cleaning pads and liquid off Amazon for about a tenner, followed the supplied instructions, and it was fine.

I never got the camera to lift the mirror when using standard batteries, I had to switch to Eneloops and update the firmware, once I'd done that it was fine. (K-x)

Ah, that would be it - I was staying a bit closer to the car on those days due to the rain.

Nooooooo! Too far away from me, then.

I think the idea is to try to make it into a "Festival of Speed" (well, a mini version) for the north, as most of that kind of event is held down south and Goodwood is a pain to get to from here. I just hope they made enough money despite the weather to keep it going.

What days were these taken Simon? I was standing near the hump-back bridge on Sunday afternoon but didn't see any other obvious Pentax users. The Bentleys must be Friday or Saturday looking at the weather.

Everybody was giving it some over that hump-backed bridge at the end of the course, except for the guy driving the last remaining available Aston Martin One-77 who had probably been told "if you bend it, you're buying it", and at £1.2 million that's quite a sobering thought.

Cheers, yes, this was at Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire. I don't know who is the current Marquis, I believe there's been a change recently because there was an irony that they put on this festival and yet the Marquis doesn't really like motorsport.

Here's some more from today.

1. Nutter on motorcycle

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2. And another one

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3. Two nutters on a motorcycle

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4. Wasn't expecting the Red Arrows, on the way to Cosford Air Show apparently

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5. Pity about the background

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6. Give it some

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Atrocious ground conditions due to wet weather in the days before the show have caused all kinds of problems, but the show goes on.

1.

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2.

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3. Nice weather for these guys

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4. Cleared up a bit later for the wing walkers

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5. Brutus, another massive engine

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6. Intriguing motorcycle from the same museum as Brutus

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Hopefully we'll have better weather tomorrow, it's supposed to be clearing up.

The commentator at the Pageant of Power today mentioned that Mavis had been at Media City yesterday. Must have meant Wednesday, I took this similar shot at CPOP yesterday:

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There's nothing quite like the sound of a 12-cylinder aero engine starting up, especially on open ports and standing next to it. Lovely, lovely vehicle and if you look at Chris Williams (the guy in the bowler hat) and imagine what kind of car he drove, this would be it.

No, only either Newborough or Aberffraw. That probably explains it.

After a short time we started going on the train instead of by car, so trips to places like that were off the agenda.

I like No 2.

I remember visiting Newborough as a kid, and have no recollection of anything like any of those shots.

Would some kind of Loctite on the grub screws help, or is there too much risk of that getting somewhere it shouldn't?