Yesterday I forgot to mention one thing… When I was cleaning the aluminium I was dealing with a weak acid so I used protective clothing. Just picture this… I was wearing dark blue disposable overalls over my normal clothes; and remember this was about mid-day when it was slightly hot. Then I had on a pair of gum boots like the type that pig farmers would be expected to wear. Heavy and black. Very black. Then there was the long black industrial rubber gloves. Oversized too, with a pair of disposable gloves underneith to make things simple. And I should probably been wearing a face mask too, but I had glasses on in case anything tried to get into my eyes. Can you picture that, dear reader?

And can you just imagine what the neighbours would have said if they saw me. I am not sure if they would have called the police or the anti-terrorism hotline, but I am sure that they would have rung someone. I must have looked so strange. But I was protected from the chemicals which is the main thing. Actually this is similar clothing to what I was wearing when I worked on the fuel tanks, except for the footware. Thankfully I was not needing to wear this type of stuff when we were painting. In that case I just had a filter cartridge mask whilst my friend who was painting looked like goodness only knows what with the external airline connected to white overalls and a head covering. The joys of a hobby. Or should I say the joys of one of the worlds stranger hobbies.

Right now I had better think about getting some work done. I have a few things I need to do unfortunately.