Bank Holiday Blues

Weds.30.08.06. The August Bank Holiday weekend has taken its toll on everybody resulting in a slight delay returning to work. The ‘Doc’ at the Oak has had his annual ‘beer, pies and bands’ fest over the past four days which has witnessed too many customers being over ‘served’, inescapably leading to surreal conversations after midnight, all of which were embodied by ample doses of  pertinence and relevance personified by a complete lack of logic. The weather of course, was pissy awful.

This does not alter the fact that the project has taken another unwanted hit. The allotted time for completion does seem to be ebbing away. Today has personified this inertia spending the late afternoon shuffling around the engine block, head scratching, finger poking, achieving zilch, fuck all, nada, rien.

Nonetheless, I have been requested to produce yet another definitive, ultimate, conclusive list ‘The Final Programme of Work’, which like the rest will be taped to the wall, then just like the others, subsequently ignored. The repetitive aspects of the work together with the constant state of limbo are generating apathy rather than enthusiasm. The body parts should have been dispatched to ‘Danny the Painter who, by the way, is also a ‘Model’ in his spare time’, (is this not a warning in itself?) the engine panels re-modelled by Richie then taken to Mark to be clad in 2mm aluminium, the new components should have been ordered from Rimmers, the engine should have been inspected and assessed by Paul at ‘Engine Tekniks’, 

Colin Brockbank should have re-welded the rear tank frame, the seats bought from Steve Strange to be passed on to Terry Trimmer, the chassis painted with any fuckin’ anti-rust product along with the underside of the body tub after it has been scrubbed clean and sealed…..but it’s always fuckin’ tomorrow.

I am suffering from a period of disillusionment. I think that I prefer to work with flowers; they usually have a pleasant odour, they make very little noise and they never have an opinion or talk back.