so ... the busy day was as predicted ... least the best part of it was .. manic ..
Reo arrives at 08.00 ... gates're all open, as is the black shed for power, for the mixer ... and he's a coffee waiting ... like me he consumes a LOT of it in a day
08.10 a 6 wheeler arrived, piloted by 'Santa' with a SEEEEERIOUS 15t on board ... to the gunwales ... spin him round and back him in where i want him ...
middle of that me phone rings ... merchant's driver after directions ...
"I'll call you back in five mate" .... Santa tipping and ring him back .. talk him in to where he needs to be .... they still hadn't revised the post code on the delivery note, but he wasn't that far away on another drop, so that was sorted .. Santa met him at the bottom of the hill up to us, where they're planing ...
he arrives and I spin him around and park him where i want him .....
bag lifter on and he too is impressed with the ease of use .....
beats the 4 hooks on his block grab and I had all four of 'em off, in the time it'd have taken him to get his hiab set up
and stuck along side the drive, by where Reo has his mixer set up ..... also saved me getting PO-ed when he stuck a leg through me 12" land drain pipe, beside the drive.
Santa, who's dropped a load elsewhere whilst I'm sorting this un out, see's him exit onto the main road and heads back to chez Druid, with load #2 ...I'd dropped the bag lifter and grabbed me fave Geith and was squaring up load #1 when he rolled in ... and I slid forward out the way
hopped meself round on the bucket, to deploy the blade and dozed it up a bit, 'fore heaping the rest of it, so's he could get #3 in the same spot
and then heaped that one too , after a long conversation with the 73 year old
'boy' ... he is some character ... drives daily
for what was Alun Griffiths, 'fore he sold out to Tarmac
... set to it once he'd shot off, after a coffee ... in the meantime, unknown to me .. with me back to the rest of the world .. Pam's sister and her hubby'd arrived (not seen 'em since the end of Feb. -- closely followed by Vicki and Clara ... no nursery today for her and Vicki had a couple of on line classes to take, so we had our first
child mind, in four months .. Aunty Anne could not have timed their arrival better
and Clara had a great time with her
I'd now caught up and had this lot in one tidy heap, by 12.30 ... breakfast time .. was starving
's 'bout 11ft high ... and probably closer to 50t than the 45 it was 'sposed to be
... no complaints from this direction
'Drema was getting low on motion lotion and I'd loaded up the trailer with some drums last night, which I'd parked down on the house drive out the way ... somehow 'tween loads ... so had some lunch and ventured out with me BIL, for the second time this week, down to me fuel guys
630 ltrs later and relieved of 325 quid (49p/ltr + 5%) we headed back.
much fluid quaffing and yapping later, they departed around five ... and i got the old girl fueled up, before sticking the remainder in me new 'fuel dump' ... seemed the safest place for three drums o' liquid gold
.. and well out of harms way ..
after i'd shifted the pallet stack out of there and relocated them to where the two bags of topsoil'd been sat ... which
'apparently' was not the place to park it
so they got moved first ..... she's not noticed the 6 ft high pile of pallets yet
, which is likely to grow (significantly) as the 18 odd bags of stone get used and free up more pallets
....... well they got to go somewhere
and the wood shed's full
tea stopped play for half an hour around six and then came back out to finish squaring everything away and lock up ..
been a VERY busy day .... but a lot done and a lot ready to be doing a lot more with ....... now to relocate a lot more stuff/att.s, out of the way, so's I can get this lot spread out .... 'cos if I want any more, they'm not planing again 'til next Tuesday
...
"Perfick" ...
got a full tank of cherry, 'Tain't dark, I'm not gonna be wearing sun glasses ... and got 4 days to spread 'em
without any HMRC intervention. 
