Reminds me of being about 12 and the local park had a bmx track put in it. I was warned in no uncertain terms by my parents I was not to take my racer down there. I did have cow horns on it though in my defence. So of course the first thing we did when the mates and I got together was go down the park. After an hour or so some kid says ‘hey there’s someone down the bottom taking pictures’ so we all shot off and gave it our best over the table top trying to style it out for him. A great time was had and my parents were non the wiser. Result.
Until Thursday that is when the Derbyshire Times came out and who is there on the front page flying through the air on his racer on the bmx track with the headline ‘How not to do it’. Yep busted!
John - You are very welcome to come & test this one out once you are back in Blighty land - I need to finish it first though but it looks like I have a load of time before you head back this way !
Post by grumpynorthener on Nov 7, 2020 20:13:33 GMT
So after a reasonable delay due to my illness / recovery, the appalling weather & the fact that the groundworker needed his excavator & dumper back so he could get some work done - with this weekend looking good on the forecast we managed to loan the machines back in order to get the earthworks completed before winter heads our way
A productive day - just some soil to transfer from the bottom corner of the field to form the last ramp / jump tomorrow - then its a matter of waiting until spring to seed the banks on the jumps although the ones that I formed several weeks ago are already self seeding to some extent
That's what you call being a good neighbour, but it will all be worth it to see the boy's having fun. It is this sort of thing the boy's will look back on and remember in later life. I still remember helping out on a farm as a boy and just how much I loved it. Very well done, all credit to you.