Goodness me wotaday.

Has been another of those days you have every so often.

Up unfashionably early for a weekend so that the yellow machine could be on it's way.

I sold the yellow goddess some weeks back and it has been delay and delay over eventually parting with the beast.

Dan arrived to collect the truck today with brother in law and two boys in tow.

More like 4 boys arrived to collect the fire engine...

So we set to loading the spare wheel on the roof and lashing it down.

This was easiest done by dropping the ladder and sliding the big heavy wheel up the ladder till it was balanced then reloading the ladder, sliding the wheel off the ladder on to the roof. A job requiring various items of GG kit and suitable ammounts of teamwork.

So anyway that was done we noticed the tyres looked a little flat and it was off to Greasy Garage so I could lie under the truck and use the compressor to pump up the rear tyres.

In turn of course this was Dans first go at driving a 50's truck, something he took to quite well.

Until we got to the village that is, out of mercy I took the Goddess up the twisty 25 degree hill, handing it back when we got to the top.

Eventually he went off on his way and home I went to rest, well except that management was on taxi duty and she had to collect Bruce and Bethan from town.

That done and it was home to feed childer.

Out again; taxi run for Bethan to her little mates.

All in all it was a long day but now it is sort of over - ish.

Maybe I can have a quiet night tonight.

Might even get a lie in tomorrow.

But I am suprisingly sad, I had not realised how fond I was of having the four of them out there.

We have to be realistic, four GG is more than one man can maintain without outsourcing the work.

So Taff had to go.

Of course we get a flat bed next week....

R