Monday
Started out 07.30 from home , 130 mile drive up to Denbigh where the wagon’s based. Stuck behind an artic for the first bit up as far as Lampeter, by the way he’s driving he’s not been up this way before! Finally get past him and head northwards, pleasant and uneventful for the remainder of the trip. Arrive at Denbigh 10.45, stow the laundryand fridge-box, make my bed up and have a brew.
First job’s moving 12 pallets of stock from the mill down to the bag store, only a quarter mile down the road. Once I’ve tipped there, reload with 4 drops round the Lleyn peninisula (Pwhelli area, real banjo-playing country 
) which fills a nice afternoon quite pleasantly.
Along the coast road back to Caernarfon when I’m empty;
Park up in Caernarfon; there a coach park by Morrison’s on the Bangor side of town, nice view over the estuary and only five minutes walk from the town. Spent the night chatting with a very nice bloke from Immingham way, driving a tanker for Hydro; both of us being bikers we had a few mutual acquaintances.
Tuesday
Ran in to yard, loaded 2 drops Cheshire and stock to Newcastle-under-Lyme mill. Took a few pics at one drop, hopefully this’ll give you an idea of what I do all day;
Unloading dinner…
…for this lot!
Collect the empty pallets…
Stow the Manitou away…
…and squeeze my way out!
Once I get to Newcastle-under-Lyme mill, I reload 10 pallets of lamb feed for Denbigh; I am then sent down to a mill near Eccleshall to collect three pallets of horse feed. Since the bag store at Denbigh only works 8 till 5 I decide to park up at Rhyl for the night; I could run in but the mill’s noisy all night,so I head for the coast instead.
Wednesday
A carbon copy of Tuesday near enough; run in, tip in the bag store, reload out of the mill with game feed for Mold and Malpas. Tip them by dinner-time, run back to Denbigh where I have a load for Warrington and two just outside Lancaster. The gamekeeper at Warrington doesn’t care for early deliveries so I ring him and arrange to drop off on my way through tonight. Having done that, I park by Sainsbury’s in Wigan, nice quiet stop and a decent night’s telly.
Thursday
Start at 7 o’clock, run up to Caton, near Lancaster. You get all sorts of drops on this job, this one involves putting one pallet on the gamekeeper’s trailer outside his house, which is in a cul-de-sac in the village. Can’t take it to the shoot because it’s up in the Forestry and even his Land-rover struggles!
Then on to the next drop, just the other side of the village.
Littledale Hall is a rehabilitation centre, but the estate is still active.
The access road’s pretty good by the normal standards of this job!
And this is the hall itself. I tip four tons of pheasant feed off, then it’s dinner time…
…so I park by the stables and put the kettle on. Run back empty to Denbigh.
Once back in the yard I load 5 tons of stock for our blending plant at Presteigne; time’s getting on so I park up at Welshpool.
Friday
Start at 7 o’clock, run down to Presteigne and tip. Reload 10 tonnes of lamb feed for a farm near Oswestry, and a ton for our mill. Two hour turn-round at Presteigne, they’re lovely people but not renowned for fast tipping!
The farmer’s waiting for me so I tip half of the bags onto his trailer, the rest into the barn.
Back to Denbigh, tip in the stores, park up and home in the car.
