You need to be sitting down for this – the bug passed its MOT with no advisories earlier this month – amazing! This has never happened before in approximately 22 years (combined) of VW ownership history! Admittedly the speedo in the bug has stopped working again, but that’s not material…….
Continue reading “Making History”Everything’s Cancelled
Everything’s cancelled. Even a gig that had been rescheduled for September has now been pushed back to next May. Not even the mighty Rammstein could get the better of this bloody virus. After 11 weeks of being home alone, my sanity is just about hanging on in there. Just about. I even got so bored of working from my bedroom that I tethered my laptop to my phone and worked out of the bus! There does appear to be some light at the end of the tunnel in that I’ve got a trip to Coniston and Langdale booked in for mid-August. Admittedly there has been no official word that campsites will have reopened by then, so we can only hope that doesn’t get cancelled too……
Continue reading “Everything’s Cancelled”Strange Days
Seeing as we’re pretty much confined to barracks during the middle of a global pandemic, there isn’t really any excuse for not bringing the site up to date. Not that a massive amount of VW related stuff has happened so far in 2020 thanks to a ridiculously wet start to the year and now Covid-19. I’m not going to dwell on the fact that Clarence and me should have been going to the Lakes next week, because there are so many people who are in a much worse position than I am, but I couldn’t help but have a wry smile to myself at the irony of the weather forecast being wall to wall sunshine!!
Continue reading “Strange Days”It’s Been a While
Well this post has been sitting on my desktop for a while now, originally saved as “August post”. The original opening paragraph complained that the weather was October-esque and here we are now in October (actually November now) and yeah, that was a pretty accurate description! So yet again, there’s been a fair old gap between posts. Not that there are hoardes of disappointed visitors to the site, I’m sure! It’s been a busy 5 months since Stanford Hall including three further trips to the Lakes. I can’t quite believe that it’s coming up to the end of my first year living in Burley in Wharfedale – how did that happen??
Continue reading “It’s Been a While”Stanford Hall 2019
I don’t think I’ve made a secret of it, but Stanford Hall is my favourite VW show. It’s great value for money, the bulk of cars on show are predominantly air cooled and, over the last few years, the weather is usually rather decent. It’s nearly always something I go to on my own (not a complaint) so it was rather unusual to be joined by a whole bunch of other people this year!
Continue reading “Stanford Hall 2019”Double Lake Action
I’m kinda digging the new layout for the site. Still not quite got the hang of the whole blocks thing, but I’m sure we’ll get there. Not sure I share the same confidence with the new job. Well, I say new, but it’s been pretty much 7 months now. They must be reasonably happy with me I guess because I passed the 6 month probationary period last month. Anyway, that’s enough boring work nonsense. In much more interesting news last month saw Clarence and I return to the Lakes and I made a start on some remedial paintwork on the bug!
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