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hirezEarlier this arvo I was outside Ma's, pretending to be a bicycle repair-person, when a strange man hove into view in command of a vintage Fordson Major. Strange man turned out to be Uncle Will, showing off his most recently restored tractor.
"Go on," he said. "You used to drive them all the time..."
'All the time' actually parses out as 'on and off in the school holidays when Pa could be persuaded I wasn't going to break any expensive machinery'. Breaking myself was never a consideration. If duffers best drowned, etc.
So after something like a thirty year break I am back in command of someone else's tractor and trying very hard not to reverse it into the scenery or any of the quite expensive cars that are all carefully parked right in the way.
I am also in command of an idiot grin and laughter that you can hear from the far end of the paddock over the sound of the engine.
Only after I have failed to break it or anything around me do I discover that the thing used to belong to grandfather (Will's dad), so I guess that would be three generations steaming around on the thing over time.
"Go on," he said. "You used to drive them all the time..."
'All the time' actually parses out as 'on and off in the school holidays when Pa could be persuaded I wasn't going to break any expensive machinery'. Breaking myself was never a consideration. If duffers best drowned, etc.
So after something like a thirty year break I am back in command of someone else's tractor and trying very hard not to reverse it into the scenery or any of the quite expensive cars that are all carefully parked right in the way.
I am also in command of an idiot grin and laughter that you can hear from the far end of the paddock over the sound of the engine.
Only after I have failed to break it or anything around me do I discover that the thing used to belong to grandfather (Will's dad), so I guess that would be three generations steaming around on the thing over time.
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Date: 2013-02-16 03:46 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawcrook
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Date: 2013-02-16 04:09 pm (UTC)Maye it's a snuff porn thing (http://www.classictractormagazine.co.uk/?feature=your-mishaps&pid=125).
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Date: 2013-02-17 07:36 pm (UTC)Cor bloody hell. It's an illustrated lecture from the HSE.
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