What a year!
It started with such optimism about getting out and visiting places and we had the Welsh Festival of Land Rovers to look forward to
I even got around in January to finishing off some of the Solar installation (however I'm still not happy with it this will be revisited in 2021 hopefully)
Then of course in February we started hearing that there could be something nasty going around and we learned all about Covid-10. March came and the weather got better and we were still waiting for some clarity on what was going to happen and then as march was about to leave us we were all asked to stay at home and not meet up with anyone.
What an optimist I was..
April was when we started clapping and I thought it was fun to include Katy in some of the pictures, but I was so embarrassed about the way she looked
that as May came along I know I thought give it a quick rub down with a sander, a coat of paint and it will be good to go when things free up in the summer.
Soon everyone was debating whether to wear masks or not and it meant not a lot to me because during June I was wearing one for about 6 hours a day whilst sanding the multiple layers of paint off the roof and sides of Katy.
I added the first coat of the new colour to the roof and I congratulated myself (I was so over optimistic!) and by July I was congratulating myself on getting the sides painted as well
Things certainly moved on at pace that month because I got the rear step welded up and I moved her from our drive up to Steve's workshop where the really hard work could take place. By the end of that month she was devoid of wings, windscreen and we could see the real state of the sections that needed attention.
In August the cutting started and I repaired the wings ready to go back again and then in September we managed to move her into the workshop proper (with the help of a Massey Ferguson industrial tractor and the cutting and welding could really get started.
Welding started we had some good progress at first
However, later in September we had "local lockdown" in Wales with constraints against crossing county boundaries which was a disaster for the project because despite being only 2.5 miles away, Katy was in a different county. A lazy way to restrict things IMO by politicians, and a real nonsense because I was working mainly alone, could easily stay away from Steve because the workshop is a set of barns, but rules are rules and things went on hold :(
Towards the end of the year there was a brief opening of rules before we were locked down again. during that time I managed to rub down and ready for second coat some sections where Steve the welder wasn't working (social distancing managed at all times)
So in summary
Things are looking better on one corner where the welding has finished
but its still work in progress
