a fairground life

The weather has been unkind the last few days with intermittent showers. So it has taken longer to get the roof painted in preparation for re fitting the inflatable top. Those wet days were spent working inside the show instead. All the interior staircases were removed, as was some panelling and flooring. It was all rotten from the previous years of getting wet (usually on a Saturday afternoon when we were trying to get a few clods in). Any how I decided to beef it all up a bit and manufactured the new staircase frames from "L" iron. That will surely last longer than timber. "R" was not at uni today and with his help we finally got the top inflatable part of the show fastened back into position. A few days ago we raised this back up from the ground onto the lorry cab roof. That took 5 of us to do that and it was hard work (I was almost going to ditch it all together it was that heavy). Not much structural work left to do, then it will be paint paint paint.