A Mystery and a a new Toy !

 Week Commencing 19th December 2022

Monday

No Blog from last week , the reason as the picture below points out is plain to see.

But this Monday it was totally different , snow gone in a flash and the 5 volunteers who turned up had a  of a mystery first thing.

The Finial from the post by the Kitchen entrance was on the floor. Its not something that could be blown off by the wind  !!

It was replaced and later in the day Neal drilled and plugged it so it couldn't be removed.

By now our new toy had arrived.

One our Blog readers had given us a very generous donation to allow the purchase of a " Billy Goat " a machine that would help us with the picking up of the pine cones and pine needles.

Brian soon got it working after a short reading of the instructions , worked a treat on the end of platform 1.

One thing it would never pick up would be large piles of dead Ivy left at the bottom of the drive.

3 volunteers drifted away about lunchtime which left Dave and Ian to find something to do in the afternoon. they turned there hand in making a ramp to get the Billy Goat into container 3 where it will eventually live .

Wednesday

Last working day of the Year , so its a case of tiding the station in readiness for next week's  "Mince Pie Specials "

It was too wet to try out the Billy Goat on the platform , so out came the faithful brushes for a big sweep up , and then out came the platform furniture !  

One thing that we couldnt put back up was the running board , the cold weather has prevented us from finishing of the painting , but in the afternoon Dave and Ian managed to apply the first coat of Black.

Something that had been going on in the station building was the connecting of the station clocks to the master clock. , Brian pointing out the hands actually moving by themselves.

Nice addition to the station building.

Again Dave and Ian were left on thier own in the afternoon

So it was back to the waste bin paining and refurbishment.

So that was it for another year , all that remains for me is to Wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year from us the Volunteers  at Broadway Station.