Well, today was indeed "crosses & numbers day"
Began at 0500(so much for a Saturday sleep in ) with the Mrs & girls getting ready for a dance comp.................Lads, I have to say that doing makeup and hair, at 0520, on 2 girls,to dance comp standards, and getting costumes and accouterments into enormous roller-bags that have built in clothes racks and being in a fit state to actually NOT trip over your own sleeping feet like an untrained seal, is JUST AMAZING
All I did was make a coffee, and wait, contemplate my day, and the glory that is new crosses & numbers...................... and then................. "damn, can you please go and put petrol in my car-the warning light is on"
You have to be taking the piss love . Its Saturday at 0530 & yesterday was Friday, daylight, and normal hours for topping up a car
Mmmm, you get the picture, navigating her car in flogging rain with only a sip of coffee in me, like a stunned mullet, to the servo .
(fast forward) im in my car(which was already full of fuel-not that hard now was it
) in the now monsoon'ing rain, with the StuG on board, looking for a feed & a massive coffee to get my act & metabolism in some sort of order.
Got that, did that, and managed to take along chilli-bin full of cooler pads so I could stop in at a butcher on the way to get the meat & bones for the week ( part of what I love about me
) its an hour & a half to his place so it has to be worth the trip .
So, with a gut full of fast junk food & average coffee, a chilli-bin full of meat, and a damp disposition, I rolled into my mates place to begin the mission..................crosses & numbers
It was so damp that his stencils would not stick in place, sure, my luck, why not eh ?
But I STOLE THE DANCE TURBO BLAST HAIR DRIER TOO...........on it went & the hot air soon reactivated the adhesive on the stencil sheets.
The mission went on and Im very happy with the result. And, I must say that the hair drier was a savior but did cause me some mild bruising when that news was announced
Its raining so much here Im having flash backs to N.Z.
Once home I got some white on the hatch insides, which I hate, but a lot of chipping & a wash should fix that.
) has settled, it will come together as close to the period picture as I can make it.