Taskers of Andover is where this little engine was made It takes three days to travel to the ‘Great Dorset’ from Sussex which is where Simon and Nicky live, this year they bought it down a few weeks before, so my brother Shaun helped with the last leg of the journey filling up with water … More ‘Steaming to the Steam Fair’
Well…….We got the truck, lorry and the hitch cart painted, at one point I was painting the lorry in the dark, with a head torch, at 1.30 in the morning, just so the paint would be dry enough before it rained……and it did! all the next day. Always a bit of a worry as the site … More Phewww!……we did it!!!!
When I wrote “Only 19 days to go” on facebook,
I thought Oh no…..
I was going to paint the lorry, the truck, the hitch cart,
make more shelves for the corn flakes and the marmalade,
clean the fridge out ready for the Gin and tonic
sort the harness for the horses and clean it…. … More Only 8 Days till ‘THE GREAT DORSET STEAM FAIR’
Hills Corner 