But I've been having a temendous amount of fun.
This afternoon I've been painting the woodwork for the barn roof with some xylophene - the stuff that kills all the beasties and so on that try to infest it. I've done about half so far - enough to do one side of the roof. That'll do to get me started once we have the scaffolding.
It's quite easy to spread the stuff on the wood too. It's quite thin so it goes on really easily and quickly with a paint roller.
But this morning was even better. The starter had gone on Bill's car and he has a similar car for spares so I went round there, took the starter off the scrap car and swapped it with the duff one. It took a while to do it as you have to move all kinds of hoses and filters and so on and I ended up covered to my armpits in old and dirty oil but it was just like old times when I had my taxis. Hardly a week went by without me having to change a starter or an alternator and strangely enough I used to enjoy it.
But the enthusiasm has started to fire up my imagination. When the roof is on the barn and I've disposed of the body off the caravan I'm going to set up a decent workshop in the barn. I'll resurrect my old gas-welding gear, get some oxy and acetylene bottles, buy an engine crane and rescue all my decent tools from Brussels.
And then I'm going to have some fun.
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