well,
that was vanfest…

friday night get packed and headup to the malvern hills, wreathed in mist and rainclouds. unload the gear and set up the stall inside one of the huge sheds there… due to an administrative cockup (i forgot…) we had to take whatever space there was left tp trade and ended up indoors. bliss! warm , no rain, no gale force wind, no mud !

to cut a long story short friday night was long and social, chatting in camp selecta with the crew and meeting french friends of tims and talking garbage franglais with them long into the night… saturday and sunday were a relaxed blur, trading on the stall, chatting, jabbering excitedl;y about the new bus project… plaiing stuff in my head and doing a little bit of shopping for the new hightop westie wedge bus…

picked up this cool dash tray to screw onto the expanse of dimply brown steel that pretends to be a dashboad in the wedge. the big tray bit is hinged at the bottom edge and flips out to turn into a map sized flippy out table ting…

coming to fit it this morning i started to investigate some of the random screw that have been driven ionto the dashboard top over the years and discovered a 300w amplifier screwe under the dash… all plumbed in too! a few minutes fiddling and suddenly the 80’s style alpine TAPE player sounds at least 26% better! bargain… a quick zip wid the handy cordless drill and hey presto! a huge expanse of moulded black ABS instead of the brown dimples….

AND!

last but not least, i’m wating for the NEW race bus to arrive… it’s in leicester being loaded onto a truck as i type and should be here this evening!!!!

OOOOH! i’m nearly awake with excitement 😀