*May contain strong language and material that some people may find offensive!*
Date: Saturday 25th January 2020
Location: Thurcroft, Rotherham
STEAMPUNK
Great Western Railway
A great bit of news last year G.W.R held their first ever Steampunk market. Like other traders I took a chance and was pleasantly surprised. Not only was the footfall high (don’t know the figures but we were certainly kept busy) the day profitable and pitch prices low, the staff were incredibly helpful and couldn’t do enough to make sure we were well catered for.
As a bonus, from my perspective, I was also provided with a pitch for my moho with EHU (Electrical Hook Up), drinking water, shower & toilet facilities and an on-site cafe serving; breakfast, lunches, tea & coffe plus the usual fayre like sandwiches, pastries etc. Throw in the fact that G.W.R operate four working stations and you have a recipe for a first class event!
Following on from the success of this first steampunk event not only are GWR repeating it but extending it into a full weekend for 2020. It will also be held earlier in the year - 5/6th July - as opposed to September as it was last year.
Anyone interested in trading should contact June LeGalalle at GWR.
MOTORHOME
Fed up with referring to my motorhome as moho, I have decided to give it a name; a pet name that is, not any of the usual appellations I have us
ed when it fails to function as it should - “useless piece of crap!”, f***ing thing!” “heap of junk“ and “fuck of you cheap bas***d excuse for a vehicle, I would be more comfortable sleeping in a dog kennel and driving a lawnmower round an assault course!”.
Anyway, I will give the matter thought and get back to you. In the meantime any suggestions please let me know! Water water everywhere...
Water is finally sorted!
Just to bring you up to date (for the benefit of those people who are awake most of the night with nothing better to do than think about my piece of shit water system) the previous issue with the water was that there basically wasn’t any - couldn't get any water out of anything - sink in the cooking area, not even a trickle, toilet flush (maybe it was but it wasn't handing anything over to me!), taps in the wet area - dry as a dog biscuit in a desert and shower - about as much use as a shellfish sandwich in a synagogue.
There wasn’t any because, as you may recall, I was filling the water tank at one end and the water was pouring out of the other. This is one of those moments where we tend to anthropomorphise and treat a faulty piece of equipment as something that could be rectified by taking it for counselling ....
“Where are we going?”
”Hmmph! If you must know I’m taking you for counselling!”
”But why!? I’m just a water tank!”
”You are a pain in the arse!” “Theres me giving you all the sustenance you require and you're just deliberately throwing it away! Why, any other decent self-respecting water tank would use it sparingly but, oh no not you, got to be bloody clever haven’t you? Letting me fill you up at one end then just pissing it away at the other. You are just taking the mick! Well I’m going to get to the bottom of this once and for all you see if I don’t!” I’m not made of water you know!”
”Well actually it’s a well known fact that humans are around 60% wa......
”..... Don’t you get bloody clever with me or I’ll tie a knot in your overflow pipe!”
.....etc
So, water tank = inanimate object = several hours fucking about trying to work out where the problem is. I go for the obvious - turn off the controls nearest the pipe that the water is pouring out of. Nothing. I then take a video of my attempts and send it to Stuart. He declares that he needs to see it.
Today - he sees it! Or at least sees the general area where it’s located. He tries one control followed by another while I run outside to look at the pipe. No!, “thats not it”, “er nope” “No still pouring out like piss from a giraffe on diuretics”.
I run back in and grab the manual - theres something in there that explains where the different cinyriks are licated. Sure enough - it tells me that Stuart is in the right area but nothing looks like the covtrils inducated in the manual. He tries one more thing. I run outside - the flow of water has finally stopped! Why did it take so long to sort it? Because it turns out the control is totally different to the photo in the manual.
SHITHEADS
This is a bit of fun inspired by my friend John Lumley-Moore of the absolutely fantastic company PnP Alternative!
Yesterday John posted this on Facebook...
“Rant ....called in two places today .shops.never met a bunch of ignorant set of bastards ..public and shop assistants....
So today is shithead day !@@“
Today I replied....
Twats! You are a great guy John! Fuck the dolts - they need flushing down the shitter with the other dipsticks.
To evade problems in future use the item in the photo as shown to identify shitheads. Then we all know who to avoid.
Then I thought, why not start by identifying some of the worlds worst shitheads!!!
This is amazing!
https://www.facebook.com/meadowperrypage/videos/10158107306808799/
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