thursday

right so im watching neighbours atm and writing this so i may kind of wander a little
ok today was another shit hot busy day
kicked off the day with a couple of cuppas as you do
as for the next few weeks we (pete and moi) are re bushing and pinning merdin's valve gear
so we had to take one of the power bogies off
the bottom end
thus i ended up in the smoke box agai taking out everything
blower ring, baffle, spark arrestor and the blast pipe
getting absolutely covered in soot and had another couple of cuppas while doing this
cuppa count 4
after this i had to go down teh'pit to take off the main steam pipe (which is flexible) so after being covered in soot i procedeeded to be covered in soot oil water and grease NICE!
then another film crew showed up
and so we went a tea break
cuppa count 5
next on the list was jack up merdin and shove it up into the errecting (haha) shop and then scoot the bogie out
this took a while and a fair bit of swearing
so we got the bogie out just before luch
as it was such nice weather here today we ate outside
after lunch dragged the bogie out with the arg and rambo'd it
then whacked it back in the shed
had a cuppa
and shoved the tal away and just cleared stuff up for a bit
todays been good havent missed sofia too much so thats cool and im rather excited as im going to see her tomorrow after work so yay 4 and a half hour drive to durham :)
peace out