a fairground life (Bellshill revived)

Bellshill time again, and as is the bane of any street fair-alterations had been carried out from last year. The old pavement slabs were removed and replaced with ones containing marble chips. The old cast iron bollards were removed and replaced with stainless steel ones, new stainless deck chairs were added and finally all new lamp posts. On top of that the kerbstones were replaced with fancy white granite ones and the pavement was widened about 3ft (1m). Well the place looked a million dollars and that was the problem- the risk of damage to the new works. We had to lay sheets of ply down to protect the slabs while we set the rides. That was after we turned them up a side street and reversed them 300yrd along the road, through a chicane and jackknifed onto the plot. That was the miami set, now we had to repeat it for the DZ. It was a little after 6pm when we got to the street but it was well after 8pm before the two rides were set. "r" and I got stuck into the DZ rapid style, you can imagine how it was holding everyone else up as they waited for us to swing the tower and raise it out of the way. After that the pressure seemed off, all we had to do was the miami and then find a plot for the water lasers. The new street furniture had resulted in a re-setting of the fairs layout and the usual plots had been used to accommodate other displaced equipment. Three new additions to the fair this year are the speed Buzz, Galaxy Trabant and AP's recently acquired Mirror Maze. In fact the fair looked well, new tackle,new layout and new pavements what else could one want? Maybe sunshine? It seemed a long day and at 11pm we were finally done and headed home. I'll be there tomorrow while "r" heads of to Drymen show.