Wet, wet, wet!

Wet, wet wet! Not the boy band from the 90s but the prevalent climatic conditions at the Rocks By Rail Museum. 

Given such weather, I could have been sensible and found a job in the dry of restoration shed giving Andy a hand cleaning the running gear of loco 1931....

.....or doing something with loco Barrington....

...or even helping John out with fettling the brakes on loco Mr. D!

I could even have done some of the jobs on this rake of brake vans and wagons where I could have been in the dry of one of the brake vans....

I might even have considered doing something on the cab or water tank of loco 1931 which are temporarily stored on wagons awaiting repatriation with the rest of the loco once the boiler returns from being retubed.

However, being pessimistic and not having faith in the weather forecast I decided to try out Benny Brush Cutter! Similar to Sammy Strimmer, but Benny has a metal cutting disk instead of strimming cord. I thought that this would be a major step forward in the arty of vegetational butchery down in the bone yard. Having managed to awake it from several years of slumber since it last saw action off we went. The rain appeared to be getting less heavy so I thought that I was on a winner. I had to tackle a different area of the bone yard as there were dog training activities going on where I was intending to be but that was not a problem. I did uncover some interesting 'lost items' such as this engine!

There was also a door, some wheels, pipes and an assortment of yet to be identified metal parts!

I also began to uncover part of some remote point control mechanism.

But by this time I was extremely wet and lunch beckoned in the dry of the Snap Cabin! I was that wet that I abandoned going back down to the bone yard and instead sorted a couple of small inside jobs out and them it was home time with the car heater on full blast to try to dry me off! I still had a great day though!