Sauna house life

ive been in St anton for nearly 2 months now...........

and i love it
living in the wooden shack that we do rocks i mean check out this picture of it!













its a shame about the snow though its a really slow winter weve had maybe 2 or 3 powder days

but weve made the most of them. Even on a transfer day where were not allowed to ride we made a little kicker on the hill down from the sauna house and were hitting it.

I got a sweet picture of old haz ( one of the roomies ) getting a sick nose grab off of it.

 I managed to get out here christmas eve and so had a great christmas day helping out in the 24 man chalet Garry had made a great christmas dinner, including an amazing sausage and herb stuffing that went down a storm and we just beasted out dinner service then headed into town for a few brewskis.


 The big night in St Anton though is new years eve and we hit it hard as we had the next day off.

Its mental with everyone partying in the tiny main street letting off fireworks all around you from the middle of the crowd. We carried the party on back here and poor Kiera passed out pretty early and the first game of rodeo of the year happened.

The picture doesnt do it justice as 5 minutes after this she had ski's snowboards fire extinguishers on her too.

A couple of weeks ago we had a vally rally which basically involves getting dressed up in some fancy dress and then going round the mountain in teams doing challenges and having drinks along the way. As i lacked fancy dress i was handed a fantastic team russia one piece to wear and i wore it with some real style as you can see here.





with the past few powder days we have been hiring the proper avi gear and going hiking and making the most of it. But a day after a huge pow day ange and i had a chilled out ski round just enjoying being on the mountain in the sun


right ive got to go to spar now to go get some minced meat for tonights dinner a tasty lasagne for my american guests. 5 17 year old lads who just want a couple of courses a night of filling tasty food.

starting up

ok so ive decided to start a blog
im thinking that its going to be just while im working on the world famous festiniog railway as im working there as a fitter
so ive already worked there for a month and have done some pretty cool stuff
ive done some welding , milling, angle grinding , general fitting of parts to the various loco's

today ive been working with pete and having a good laugh
we've had to do some general running repairs on the earl
we replaced a couple on nuts on the spindle on the valve gear
after we had done that we started to take merdin's top end injector apart as its been faulty lately
a little later while pete was woo'ing the german film crew that was shooting footage for some train porn programme thing
i whacked the clutch back on the moelwyn's engine while being filmed it was rather freaky i got a embaressed to be honest
the germans eventually left and we were left with a huge shunt
ended up having to light up the dave for tomorrow as we had decided that we couldnt send merdin yet
end result of pete lawson coming round during this is that im now spare fireman for tomorrow with jed eeeek
anyway im watching role models atm and just thinking sorry this is a massive post and rather long and windy but yeh im sure ill get better at this
thinking im gunna hit the pub later so au revoir