a fairground life

Lucky lucky lucky, that's what we were over the weekend. The wet weather promised for Saturday never appeared and Sunday was hot all day. The official figure was 80 plus thousand at the river fest, but in reality it was nearer 50k. A lot of punters enjoying what is mostly a FREE day out. The "shows" had a two good afternoons business and no doubt the showmen were relieved, I know I was! The gaff ended at 6pm and by 9:30 pm the last load left the carpark. DT had his work cutout, he had to move to Burntisland and build up the Superbob to be open this morning for 11am. This was the games day there today. 

On the countdown now, only a few more days until we leave the mall, biz still poor due to severe lack of people. Just as well we are leaving soon as the DZ light box must have a short inside. It keeps blowing the trip, but as previously mentioned within this blog somewhere-the box is at the top of the pole and not accessible without lowering the pole. GRRR!! thoughtless nit-wit designer!! Off to B/Alan next, quite a busy month coming up especially with me attending 6 different fairs & events in two weeks. Watch this space.

The photos show a small part of the fair with the "PoleStar" vessel in the background and DTs Superbob load just departing. The video is the countdown to launch the Real Radio "Duck Race" by Dot Cotton. The view does not do justice to how many people were packed onto the "squinty bridge" during the race. Many many thousands, I wonder how many realised it only re opened 2 weeks ago after undergoing major overhaul after a main brace snapped!! and its only slightly over a year old!! As I said to "r"--"civil engineers my a**e!!!