Introducing George

The much anticipated arrival of George took place at the weekend. Pritch our ever so friendly long sufferer of projects at Rock HQ builder put us in touch with George. George is like many other cement mixers in this world, except he is special, because he is ours. George waited a long time at the builders merchants, sitting amongst others waiting to be chosen to fulfill his destiny.

Finally the day came, he was taken from the dark warehouse and placed in the back of a shiny van full of tools. He was very excited. A proper builder in a proper builders van. George was a good mixer so he got on well with all the other power tools. Then it went all quiet, no one came for him so he sat quietly in his box listening to the other tools talking about big jobs like house restorations and he dreamed of joining in. The builder came back and George felt himself being lifted out of the van, but not taken to the building site, not like the others, no, George was put straight into another vehicle, that smelled funny and had heavy metal music playing.
George was worried, he could smell goats.
Goats always mean problems.
Eventually the new car stopped and he was let out. The man laughed as he read "Easy assembly in 5 minutes" on the ticket around his neck but George did his best and in 7 minutes, not bad for a ham fisted amateur, George was stood to attention in the yard.
George looked around in dismay, this was no busy building site, there were no builders bums to laugh at, there were hardly any buildings around and everywhere was a funny green colour.
George's head spun as the man switched on the power, finally he would show the man what he could do. He wondered what big job they would be doing together. George looked round as he emptied the cement into the battered barrow that had strange organic bits hanging off it. It smelled like the car.
A step!
George was mixing concrete for a step! The indignity of it all, it was a small step at that! It was hardly worth getting dirty for! Didn't the man know some of his bigger brothers and sisters were laying foundations for 2012! And here he was mixing for a step into the Berner Annexe! George sulked as the man cleaned him, making him all shiny and new again before putting him away carefully in a special place just for George. The man was very happy with is efforts.

It was afterall, one small step for man.