The weekend just gone was what we would class one of our busy weekends. We have Wrexham and Llandrindod Markets on the Friday, and Stourbridge and Aberystwyth on the Saturday. I am suffering from a very bad back and hip presently, an ongoing problem from having severed my coxys four years ago, and had acupuncture and a hip brace on the Thursday, unsure of how I would feel on Friday it was arranged that Colin would accompany me and carry heavy boxes etc and I would do all the talking (I'm good at that!)
Colin unfortunately twisted his ankle whilst catching the ewes to tail, so off we went to Wrexham at 6am on Friday looking like we had returned from a bout in the ring. Colin hobbling, me bent over and limping.
Wrexham had all been altered, apparently to improve sales (we were down on last month), and it was terribly windy. the stalls in Wrexham are not at all suited to the windy spot in which we always find ourselves there and at one point the whole of the top blew off which I instinctively caught hold of in case ti should blow down upon a customer sitting the other side of the stall in a wheelchair. Of course this did my back no good, and within an hour it was hurting beyond belief which pain killers did nothing to relieve. OK accidents happen, but when i went in to report the incident to the person in charge of the market, he, after inspecting the stall and me explaining what had happened said, "well it was all ok when we set it up at 5.100am this morning, and I can't do anything about it now!" I politely reminded him that whatever had happened at 5.00am this morning I was reporting a serious health & safety issue to him and he had a responsibility to do something about it now. So he found a huge ball of string and tied the top half of the stall to the bottom half of the stall and said that would hold it.
Beware all you marketeers.... of men in disguise. A suit doesn't always mean brains!!!!
Monday, May 21, 2007
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