a fairground life(Drymen show)

We were up at 6:30am to leave for Drymen. It was a nice morning and we arrived at the show for 7:45. A few finishing off jobs to the ride and we were ready for opening. The weather looked rather bleak over the distant hills and right enough at 9am it started to rain and then after 15 minutes it had stopped again. These heavy cloud bursts continued periodicly throughout the day followed by glorious sunshine. I'm glad to say it did not affect the business too much. There is a good turnout for this show and as there are a lot of country folk assosiated with horse shows, they come prepared with outdoor clothing and wellingtons or hiking boots. This show has been cancelled three out of the last four years due to flooding and it would be hard for an event to recover from this, but Drymen show seemed as popular as ever. We closed at 5pm, just as the beer tent clientel were coming out (Its not worth the aggro dealing with people worse for the effect of alcohol). By 8pm the whole fair was nearly away. The committe are very good and arrange a tractor to be on site to tow the vehicles out. The driver was not short of work. We got him to couple the unit to the ride by pushing it under with a straight bar. The big Massie-Ferguson tractor made short work of towing the skydiver out and onto the path. Look at the size of those rear tyres!!!!!