You know, sometimes I just can't be asked...

I have had a pretty busy, and to be honest, I'm not sure I can be bothered this week.

All week, I have been slaving away over a hot laptop, typing up essays for university assignments. The way university works (as some of you may know), is that you sleep through 12 weeks of lectures, and then you throw together 5 essays, in two weeks. Bing band bosh, done. I have one and a half to go, and three/ four days to do them. Well actually, I could take 7 days to do them, but I'm going camping with the NTC next weekend, so there you go.

Now, I have to phrase this next bit carefully. One day this week (possibly a Wednesday), I may have taken a rock climbing instructor's assesment, which might have conflicted with working at Sainsbury's. This could have caused me to call in 'sick' and would mean pulling my first ever 'sickie'. I think you can see where I'm going with that. But what the hell do I care for? I'm leaving in three weeks time!!! Anyways, this week, I did take and pass an assesment, so I am now a fully qualified climbing instructor!

On to the weekend. As I'm going camping next weekend, I realised that I would need my trailer that I told you lot about a few weeks back. I told Dad that I would have a road worthy trailer by the end of the weekend, and he just laughed at me. Did I do it? Read on...

I went out to the trailer Saturday morning. Having already painted the exterior, and underneath, only the interior of the frame needed sanding and painting. However (isn't there always a however...), after 30 minutes of sanding/ grinding, I had only covered about two feet of the trailer. So I made an executive decision. My trailer refurbishment, was upgraded... to a trailer rebuild. With the assistance of an angle grinder (what a fun tool that is...), I removed the old frame, and kept the good chasis and trailer board. I then went out and bought £90 worth of angle iron and nuts and bolts, and for the rest of Saturday constructed the floor pan. I already had some metal panels that I had aquired, so that was together pretty quick. Except for the bolts in the corners. What a pain in the backside...

Sunday. All I had left to do with the trailer, was bang up the uprights, and then put in thge side panels, which should be far easier than building the floor pan. Unfortuntaly, you'll have to wait until later to find out. Because on Sunday, I went powerboating in Shoreham Harbour, to help run a course. It was pretty good, although I am pretty sun burnt. Did alot of bombing around the harbour in various different boats.

But this all took time. I didn't return home until 1710, and I can only really work up to 8 in the evening, because of the noise of the drill and the angle grinder (again, what a great tool. Great sparks...). Drilled the first hole for the upright, and it all went downhill from there. It took three hours to just put in the four uprights, and put some temporary front and rear bolts, for those panels.
Dad was right. I couldn't complete the trailer in a weekend. Damn.

I have to cut some panels, for the sides. Then I need to bolt the side panels in. Once the cargo unit is complete, I then need to bolt the cargo unit onto the chasis. Finally, I need to re-attach the wheels. I'm confident I can have that all done in a few hours. Tommorrow evening...

And we'll find that out next week. Of course, because of the bank holiday (and the fact that I am camping) next week's post won't be available until Tuesday morning. Have a good bank holiday all of you out there.

If you couldn't be bothered to read this week's blog, why not leave a comment and telling me that you didn't read it (although by leaving a comment, you must have read the post, in order to know that you would have to leave a message...).

If you could be bothered to read this week's dribble, please leave a comment telling me what I wrote, because I sure as heck can't be bothered to read it...

Quote of the Week: 'F8*k Off!'. Ahhh, the peaceful language of people from London, that I was powerboating with... (imagine that tune that's all nature....)