a fairground life

It was nearly 4pm by the time we got to the village. We set all the touring caravans first. The local event committee have kindly shared the village green with me. Space is limited and since last year there has been a new footpath laid across the green. This meant a bit of shuffling of the equipment to get every thing to fit again. It took nearly two hours and then finally we got the D/zone set and Blakey's modern amusements (this happens a lot on fairgrounds, new obstacles popping up at random). It had been raining all day and the grass was beginning to get slippery. To prevent any ruts being made we used the double drive lorry to push the units onto the positions. "r" built the D/zone up when he arrived around 6pm. He is running back and forth to university just now doing exams. My daughter is getting ready for high school next term so we are trying to stay on the yard as much as possible for her schooling. So this week will be commuting every day Glasgow-Borders and back. Gone are the days of starting out with the big "wagon" and not returning to Glasgow until November. One day when I was a kid, I returned to Glasgow with my father in the summer time. I could not believe how warm, bright, clean and different it looked as I had only ever been there in the cold, dull winter before.