Saturday, 26 September 2009

A fairgound life (Park Life)

So Thursday morning we head over to park life in Strathclyde park. The event was larger than I thought with four large tents/arenas. The fair was moved from prime tober to a part at the end of the event, in fact it was that near the end of the event that it was literally in its own fenced off pen. So at 4pm we headed in with the miami. The ride was set up on the end of the semi trailer that housed the Polish workers that had erected the tents. It was a tight fit , leaving only enough room for the tower to erect just inside the event gates. We erected the miami along the edge of the fence. I was relieved to see that we were on tarmac after all the rain we have had lately. The next day we arrived with the dz and set it along the fence too.The fire master decided that the polish abode was a fire hazard and needed to be removed from the site, only problem was that the miami was now in the way! Luckily we managed to shift the miami pay box to let the semi trailer out and away. We were finished for T time and headed home again. The next day was Saturday and we were due to open at 12 noon. The gig opened at noon but the punters didn't find their way down to us until after 2pm. It was a hard position where we where and it was even harder as the security would not let the punters in to us if they had drink in their hands of if they seemed drunk! Now lets look at this-- drinks were £4 a pop and every body had been drinking since noon!! not much scope for many clientele getting thru to us. To be fair we did knock out half a living but we lost three times as much. At 10 pm the gig ended and we got the rides down pronto. By 11:30 pm both rides were heading out of the park.I took the rides back to a lay by and left them overnight until the next morning.

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