A day at Rocks by Rail which should have been on Tuesday but I was that shattered after Mondays open day I needed a rest yesterday! No sooner have the two August Bank Holiday events finished then we are advertising the next ones which I have been putting some banners out for.
At the Museum there were, as always, things going on in the restoration shed. Eric, Derek and Trevor were battling to get the air dump valve working on Jean the Sentinel. As with such old things rust is an issue and finding the right imperial sized socket adds to the frustration but they did manage to dismantle it and clean it up to a working condition.
John and Steve had their own battle replacing the accelerator cable on the CAT. You would think that this should be a simple job. However the build of the CAT is such that the designed way to get to the underside of the accelerator is to take the cab off! What should be a ten minute job suddenly becomes a ten hour job! Surely a classic example of design stupidity? However John introduced Mr. Grinder who made a few cuts in the floor allowing a part of it to be folded back sufficiently to allow the accelerator to be removed and the underside accessed.
For me it was the usual grass and hedge cutting and both vegetational items have been growing quickly.
Interrupted by the rain I took shelter in my car!
The rain abated and my vegetational butchery continued to make this area look at least semi cultivated!
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