(Originally posted on MySpace)
Spring is definitely here! Not only is today the seventeenth anniversary of my company (as you should know by now, I'm a self-employed sign writer / decorator), but my business is springing right back into bloom.
I just got an official 'go ahead' on the biggest job I've (n)ever done. It's a series of four (count them: F-O-U-R) large murals about nautical history. The biggest one will be over twelve metres high!
So it's back in business, and back on the boom lift for me!
Here's a pic of me on top of the world, four years ago:

I was painting the logo you see on the left on the wall of a brewery. Needless to say I took some lovely and tasty farewell gifts home when I was finished! More pics can be found
here.I just love working on boom lifts, or cherry pickers, as they are also called. I really enjoy being able to see so far, and I don't find the gentle swaying scary at all... just annoying if it gets windy, because it's hard to paint a straight line when you're standing on a moving platform!
This particular contract has been in the making for a year. There were so many bureaucratic hurdles to take, and by the time I could have begun it was way too late in the autumn. But I knew it was coming and I was looking forward to getting started.
Right now I'm busy thinking of clever ways to enlarge the designs to 10 X 10 meter, and making a list of all the stuff I'll need. First thing on the list is the boom lift itself. I could rent one, but it would swallow a third of the budget, so buying one (and selling it afterwards) is going to work out cheaper...
I'll be the proud owner of my very own diesel-powered dinosaur for the next six months!
Now if you don't think that's exciting, you would not recognize exciting if it would be dancing on the piano in a pink tutu while singing 'I'm exciting, I'm exciting'.