Norfolk sat-nav

I needed directions from a customer to get to their other site. Normally I get a postcode or a street, but this is darkest Norfolk. I got a hand drawn map on a post-it note!

Brrrr, thats chilly

-6°C. Thats how cold it was when I got to the van this morning. And it didn't get above zero all day!

Sunset over a picker

A brilliant blue sky with the winter sun slowly setting, with only the silhouette of a MEWP hoisted on high to spoil it!

Waiting at the gates

Thumbprint recognition, turnstiles. Is it a prison? some high security establishment? Nope, its a school building site. Another week away in the mud and cold fitting out classrooms. Deep joy.

Massive tablet

In a customer reception today they have installed a Microsoft Surface, a table with a funky touch screen PC built into it. Sadly they were only using it displaying a non interactive over head view of a pond.

Reaching up

For the last few days the rain has been hammering down, the wind gusting along. At last the sky is blue and the sun is out and its nearly the weekend and time to go home.

Machines

Day two on site, this appears to be the middle of a digger graveyard. Machines with flat tyres, caked in mud and site debris. Abandoned in a corner of the carpark.

Derelict train

I've driven passed the signs for Middleton Steam Railway many times. Today I finally had a bit of time to pull in and see what was there. Not a huge amount as the place was closed. Only this large and rusty engine was on show. A bit of searching once home though has revealed its the site of the oldest continuously working railway having begun as a coal haulage service in 1758

I'm a lumberjack!

Well sort of. A couple of weeks ago we decided to hack down our buddleia bush, you're supposed to trim them back each year to almost nothing otherwise they get all woody. With a pile of branches on the patio it was either a trip to the tip or keep loading the composter for eternity or option C. Kim borrowed her dads chipper and for half an hour I was happily shredding things and sprinkling it over the flowerbeds as mulch.

Heavy lift

On our travels today we chanced upon an industrial museum. Pride of place outside was this huge Ruston Bucyrus steam shovel. Weighing in at 84 tons and able to shift 18 tons at a time, it was a beast.