a fairground life(hire from hell)

well it started off not too bad, the marquee was only a few meters out off place and the fenced area was only 50m square instead of 60m. We tried the dodgem on one plot but the slope was deceiving and we had to move it. All becuase of those few meters the marquee was out. Then we set the skydiver staying on the thin narrow gravel path through the site by reversing onto the plot. The other tenants arrived and started to erect in the marquee with the small gear. The merchandise arrived( supplied by the client) but the toffee apples were off, I told them prior to keep away from perishables! I got the skydiver 50% up by the time "r" returned from uni. While he finished it I went for the Dropzone, "m" fetched in the show. The show was erected by the time I returned with the DZ. Then "R" left to open at Stranraer.Due to the pen being smaller we quickly re arranged the layout and I reversed the DZ into its new plot along another narrow gravel path and started to erect it. Then one of the tenants tried to take his empty lorry out over a grass section. ohno glug glug down it went. We tried an 8 wheeler to pull it out. No go!. Then I had a brain wave. We used the winch on the back of the show, even though it was erected and we could not move the lorry. We attached a snatch block to the 8 wheeler and threaded the rope through to the stuck lorry in a v formation. I felt sure the lorry would be out in no time. WRONG. The 8 wheeler got dragged in. After several attemps and chocking the lorry wheels the winch could not do it the angles were too much. Admitting defeat we sent for a proffesional recovery lorry. GOOD JOB, because in the meanwhile my brother buried the twist, he tried to reverse in the same as the skydiver. Not having a guider to help him he went off the path and that was that. While waiting for the recovery vehicle I erected the D/zone. When the recovery vehicle came, it quickly got the first vehicle out. His winch is bigger than mine ( a man thing). Then it took another two hours to take the twist out, then turn it, then turn it back again, then reverse it in again, with a guider (me) keeping it on the path. By that time the overnight security arrived, it was dark and we had been there since 9am so we called it a night. The Twist will get set up tomorrow and then we will have a bit of gardening to do! Worried about re-instatment now. Still two more days to go with this event. Surely it can only get better.
The scenes would have made great photos, but when things go really pear shaped, the blog goes out the window, sorry!