a fairground life (statistically speaking)

I never did get over to Kilsyth, that must be the first fair that any of my equipment has attended but I haven't. While "r" and "e" were doing that I had the other gear at a one day'er in Hamilton. It was a single day including setting up of the rides. The only good thing was that we got to park the vehicles on site a couple of days before (That was when we were spotted traveling down the M80). The gig was an early start so we were building up the rides from 6am. "r" and "e" gave me a hand before heading off to Kilsyth for the last day there. I worked at my event until 6:30 pm before pulling down.The music gig at Kilsyth ended around the same time. We all met back at the house for 10 pm. Both gigs had went off without any hitch. The next morning we took the DZ to Irvine. Again I left "r" and "e" there to do the ride. I returned to Glasgow and the next day repaired that suspension problem on the skydiver trailer. I got "jm" the engineer to come out as I needed a set of burners to heat a seized bolt. It only took us a couple of hours to complete the job. The next day "r" and I took the miami and skydiver up to Crieff in preparation for the highland games. We set the trailers and the skydiver and started to erect it. The rain came that heavy that we had to stop for an hour. We started again but had to stop another twice for the rain before finally getting the ride finished for 6pm. At that we headed off to Glasgow again to drop "r" off to get his pick up so he could continue to Irvine. He was well late due to the rain but "e" was there to open up the DZ. The next day I returned to Crieff and set up the miami. Saturday morning I too headed to Irvine to help there. We had to open there at 12pm until 9:30pm then pull down and shift to Crieff. This we did, arriving there at 12:15am. It was a clear night and we got the ride set on its plot and un-coupled. My bro was coming down from Nairn that night too with the twist. That was after he had pulled down the dodgem and twist there! The next morning at 7 am I heard the twist ride pull in the gate. Shortly after we were all up and got stuck into the DZ. We were lucky with the weather as it managed to stay dry, although I could see that the attendance was well down on previous years.

Again everything was pulled down that night and we each did two trips into Dunkeld that night. Returning to Crieff around 1am for supper and kip. The next day we arrived in Dunkeld for lunch time. It wasn't long after that we set the rides. I was tired but "r" and "e" soon chucked up the DZ followed by the Miami. It was the next morning before we tackled the skydiver. "e" has been a great help to us the last 6 weeks, but now he is off home to Australia to start his own traveling season there.

August stats-fairs/events attended-10

distance traveled-2000miles

derv used-1200 lts

gas oil used-2000 lts

build ups & pull downs-30

total opened hours-229

earliest rise-4:50am

latest finish-1:30am

longest day-17 hours

cash earned-not enough!!