Long may it continue

Well here we are.
Some of you have wanted to keep in touch and find out what I am up to and I thought this would be the best way of doing so.
This is the day to day stuff that I do and get up to. There are those who will notice that it is often not that dissimilar to the trials and adventures of a certain person up at the hall. There are many that wonder who is in fact who in reality....

This year has got off to a flying start as far as work is concerned. I have never known a January like it and especially during times of economic difficulties (I believe that is the official term for a country on its arse) So far I have work ahead of me that takes me well into July, that's without the summer/autumn tractor work already booked in. Yesterday I was at a site which I first looked at back in August 2010. The project was then shelved when the government cuts came along but now it is full steam ahead again ! This is the second such project I have regained in the last 2 months.
My search for a new/ex-hire tractor is now starting in earnest. Word obviously gets around as I have have been contacted by two of my old dealers from back in the day, one of who I went down to see last weekend. I think I have narrowed it down to three manufacturers now, those being Case, JCB and John Deere. I looked at a low houred Case on Saturday, direct on the farm. Nice machine, fair spec but maybe not quite the horses I need/want. I still might have a snout at a Magnum.

My Fastrac is finally done ! Two F*cking months to the day it went in !!! I honestly ended up going in to the dealers myself, supplying the correct part and then explaining how to fit the f*cking thing !
Apparently the service manager is 'no longer with them'......

The civil engineering and construction side of things seems to be on the up. Enquiries are soaring and we have two jobs coming up in February.
Yes, February... where has January gone ?!!
The lads have been building a timber boat shed last week and it really is a nice bit of work. All hand cut and constructed from scratch. I'll get a couple of photo's and post them on here in the next week.

Right, that's me for the moment.