Back at Last
Well I’m finally back from Cork - at last! I’m now sick of buses and HGV’s for a few weeks, having spent the past 6 days (24 hours a day) working on them, and the week beforehand working on my own vehicles! I’m starting to get the feeling back in my fingers, after the trip: All outdoor work in minus conditions!
We drove an old Bedford down, without fault, except we had a turbo problem which caused it to crawl along at some paces and die coming upto the crest of a hill - got there in the end! I drove it down there, and I don’t know how ‘Payne in the Arse‘ got her to Cork, it’s a diabolical machine! The clutch is nice, but the gear linkage is dreadful - you’ve to beat it into gear, and second is impossible! In comparison to our Volvo, which is a great machine but a bit heavy, even though the Beford is 1987 and Volvo 1984, the Volvo is far more advanced!
I froze the bo****ks off myself down there at first, but once you get working you don’t ‘feel’ the cold. It was getting dark at 4:30pm, so a lot of work was completed during the night - lucky I remembered my torch this time! We were supposed to come home on Saturday night, but due to the ice, and the nature of the vehicle we were traveling home on, we thought it best to wait until the next morning to leave Cork.
We brought an old Leyland home - 50 MPH all the way from Cork to Dublin, with a big stack exhaust and Leyland engine, the CD player and 6 speakers we installed didn’t make much of a difference as we couldn’t hear them over the noise! I really pity any poor sucker who had to travel alongside us! I suffered too though, frozen all the way from Cork to Dublin, and having to listen to the noise, I’m glad the only sound I’ve to put up with now is that of Level 42.
I’m glad to be home, as there is no place like home! Where there’s central heating, hot water on demand and no buses! I’m not back at school until Tuesday, so I can recover tomorrow and have no disturbances from my hibernation while everyone is back to work/school! I’ve got a cold, so I’m hoping it doesn’t turn into a flu! 
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