Howdee one and all,
It has indeed been a long time since I last posted to this group.
Much has been happening in life and this has consumed much of the time I have had for blog site work. I am still in the middle of it, but need a bit of a distraction to ensure it does not drive me totally Eastlakes crazy.
Just recently returned from the beautiful Philippines for the second year running. This was our fifth trip and saw us travel on down to Bicol for a few days. Photographs from that trip will feature heavily here for a while as I share a lot of what we saw.
Our society, the 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' is busy legally changing where we send our help to. Previously this was to another railway group in Manila who were going to use it to restore old railway rollingstock and set up a museum.
Since my return however, the board has unanimously voted for my proposal to instead send donations to a Philippine charity set up to help the poor kids in Manila. This charity, which provides food, clothing, medical, dental, schooling and emloyment help has done so much for so many and we feel our help will make more of a difference in these peoples lives than our previous reason for being.
More details of the change and the charity will be forthcoming when we finalise it all.
Of course the usual work of the society continues, the magazine, the membership, the research - however on top of this I am trying to do a railfans guide to the Philippines.
Apart from this, I am just enjoying a far quieter life with the very few in the community that can really be trusted and, by very few, I mean VERY FEW.
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