Keeping up with all the Health and Safety requirements is turning into a full time job. The helter skelter we have acquired comes under the working at height directive and requires harnesses and fall arrest systems to erect and dismantle it safely. We already have these and have done so from before the directive came into force. After the other day I have also decided that it is a good idea to wear hard hats when working on a Helter Skelter. Renny had been removing some rotten steelwork at the top of the attraction, he succeeded in doing this using the brute force method, ie hitting it with a big hammer. After finishing he thoughtfully left the hammer on the top section ready for whoever need it next.

I shortly afterwards began to remove a rotten section some 10 feet below, but I did it the easy way using an electrically powered cutter. Unfortunately the vibrations from the cutter bounced the hammer off the top section, and as sods law would dictate directly at me! i can't remember my school physics lesson on the acceleration of a freefalling object, but the hammer reached nought to bloody painful in a short space of time, and I spent the rest of the day with a bleeding (literally) big headache. Everyone bar me found this tale hilarious, but it has taught me that from now on, whenever I have to work on this particular attraction, I intend to be the highest person, working on the principal that 7lb lumphammers don't accelerate upwards!

We have also been offered another charity based event, again of quite a large size making this 3 major new events this month.