Out of control wheechairs, hungry crocodiles and big drilling rigs..? It could only mean one thing! Yes, Biglorryblog's'Good Man in Africa' Jerry Burley is back and he says: "Swords to ploughshares? Who dreamed up that phrase? Tearing myself away from a peeled grape or two and a lightly-chilled Chablis, I dimly (probably due to the Chablis) recall it related to turning WW1 tanks into agricultural tractors?
JB then proceeds to remonstrate with your brave leader thus: "As you obstinately refuse to post my recent piece on the might of ex-US Cold War era kit [errr...what piece JB? Please resend!-BLB] earning a second chance at life, with a little 'help' from its friends along the way, I am compelled to now do one on Soviet Bloc stuff pictured above and its respective new function on God's green earth (actually very brown here, as there has been no rain for months). Relevant as you seem to have been doing a few blogs on missile launch platforms of late. But first...nature notes! And how we look after it across the dark continent. As I am always at pains to state, we are equal opportunity citizens here, so in terms of who we force feed to the crocs, no problem with either the disabled or the elderly, or even those found a wee bit the worse for wear in Casualty on a Friday night, though I find its best to cable tie this particular diet to the wheelchair, before they sober up and try to go home. I've never had a croc complain anyway, and I have asked a few just to make sure..."
And look carefully and you'll see those are not stretchers in the background...JB adds: "And a shot of an average equatorial clinic. They say surgeons bury their mistakes so this bush clinic (or maybe it was actually a main referral hospital, I cant remember now....) has gone down the supermarket route, with every possible outcome catered for under one roof (or one sky anyway). Customer satisfaction assured! On reflection maybe the re-growth of my piles can wait a few more weeks [Definitely TOO MUCH information BLB!] before I allow the knife near them again? Wasn't I was restocking the minibar before you distracted me - how remiss, I left the door open? Ho hum. OIA."
Now click through here for more on that big multi-wheeler....
"Back to the rig." says JB. "I know nothing about it except it has been used here on a drillsite, is Russian of origin and rumour has it the platform is a salvaged SCUD transporter. I throw it open to the floor to enlighten us all further."
"The above picture is a general view of it at work, just so the size of the erected unit can be seen - quite large for a so-called mobile rig. Unlike the Polish unit blogged some months back, that has a 10x4 chassis, this is a full 12x12. Get that stuck and you'll be needing one of our special BMS "dick-of-the-week" awards! Of which we have handed out plenty, as it happens, so they are not as exclusive as you might think." And we look foward to seeing Jerry's pictures of the recipients of that dubious award...
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