a fairground life (light ups)

sorry guys, just been busy doing nothing.

Yesterday (Friday) was the Annual Scottish Sections Guild Luncheon. It was held in the Thistle Hotel and received over a hundred Guests. I played my part on the Committee, setting up the signage, a laptop for a presentation of a Showmens childrens school project before greeting some guests and playing host by plying them with drink. The function went off well with some good speeches from the Section and Guests. I was sitting with a councillor who was on the licensing board of Glasgow on one side and an MSP on my other side. The meal was excellent but the conversation was even better, an opportunity that more showmen should make the most of by attending this event. It was all over by 4pm and I refrained from joining some of the other committee members for a couple of sherbets later as I had an early rise the next morning.

Saturday morning at 5am the alarm went off. I called "r" immediately to rouse him as he was my lift. It was just around 5:30am as we set sail for the mall to pick up the DZ. Destination was Alexandria for their x-mas light switch on. On 7am we pulled into the carpark where we were to set up. There was only one car parked and following sods law to the letter it was right in the way. On closer inspection we could see it had been there a while and was not about to leave anytime soon as there was no tax disc on it. So we set accordingly and built up around the obstacle. At 9am we were in the local cafe enjoying a delicious breakfast. The rest of the fair had erected along the High St. IS's miami no2 set up in the carpark directly accross from the DZ. Just as we were to open at 11 am, Mrs showman called to inform me that "m" was feeling unwell and had to stay in bed. This meant that we were short staffed at the mall and would have to re-deploy our manpower to compensate. So Mrs showman brought my daughter to help "r" while I returned to mind the skydiver at the mall. This however meant that "r" would have to pull down himself. I was worried that it would be too busy for "r" and "w" to cope on the dz but the torrential rain that followed the rest of the afternoon put paid to that. So we were washed out again. The gaff was closed just after 5pm. Blakey, remember WK last year when that fat git never helped you? well luckily Tattoo was there as he helped "r" finish off( and he's on night shift as well), apparently fasto was the preverbal "like a bat out of hell" gone! So when we get to Alloa it should be Aloha! to him as we all get pulled down smart style. And before I forget the dozy git forgot where Alexandria was and called me from Balloch to get directions!!He had only passed it by 4 miles!!!

Sunday is the AGM for the Guild and the 2010 committee will be voted on, so this time tomorrow my Guild career could be over or not as there are 26 candidates for 15 places.