... and smiles. It's clear just how much the people who own and care for the exhibits at these steam fairs love and are passionate about steam and machines. They spend hours polishing them, oiling them, sprucing them up - and equal numbers of hours chatting and comparing notes, beer in hand. There are a few women (wives and girlfriends, perhaps, working on the principle "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!") but it is mostly blokes, for whom clearly this is an all-consuming hobby.
Great stuff. I can almost smell that intoxicating mixture of coal dust, smoke, oil and steam (and a whiff of real ale, perhaps).
ReplyDeleteDefinitely smoky!
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to have such a focus in life!
ReplyDeleteLove the way you shot through the steam. Nice one.
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