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Lost casters wax and multi-lingual mongrels

Nights are closing in dark as Erebus and I had the boy's dog out for a promenade. A while back he struck up a conversation with a stag on the far bank of the Deveron but this time he chatted with an owl. Sounds a bit Disney but actually he did

I can't say what they were on to each other about but It sounded quite mundane,

Owl. "t'wit t'woo"

Dog. "Woof"

Owl. "Twit T'Woof"

Dog. "What did you call me?"

Had fun at the well attended Kirkintilloch Canal Festival with Becky Sik and Kevin Reid under the flag of thier "Hillheads Artists Sudio". We were running the beer keg furnace that we built recently at SSW and poured aluminium into moulds made by passing children.

The furnace looks great but sounds even better, and when it was cranked up it sounded like a jet engine, which unsurprisingly attracted quite an audience.

Amongst the crowd were a few ex-foundrymen from the Lion Foundry that used to be down the road from Kirkintilloch. They were drawn to us by the sound of the furnace, the smell of burning oilsand and quite probably the sight of a leather clad Becky. Oddly enough though there were no pilots attracted by the noise.

In the gaps between pours they waxed lyrical about the old days in the foundry and mourned the loss of heavy industry during Thatcher's anti working class administration. 

But. Tis ever thus, the wise old sayings are rarely wrong,

Light off a furnace and it will attract foundry workers,

Start up a chainsaw and an ex-lumberjack will turn up.

Steal a hubcap (or anything for that matter) and a scouser will arrive to assist.

But if you make a furnace that sounds like a jet engine don't expect a pilot.

Heading back North I saw a million bikes heading South returning from the "Thunder in the Glen" bike meet held every year at Aviemore. Pangs of jealousy panged through pang gland as I reflected on the summer of biking I have missed out on due to my run in with the lorry.

A whole Aberdeenshire summer,

5 entire days of sunshine.

Still, there's always next long hot summer to look forward to.

2037 according to the long range weather forcast.

 

 

 

 

 

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