“Would you like to enter your car into the show?” Not quite what I expected to hear when I wound down the window on the bug on arriving at Escrick Park near York on Sunday. Had I even dreamt it was, I would have at least washed the car before heading up there for this …
Yearly Archives: 2014
Tatton Park – VW Northwest 2014
VW Northwest, held at Tatton Park in Cheshire is perhaps the largest VW show held in the north of England. In the 15 years since I last went to Tatton Park (sadly in my girlfriend at the time’s Peugeot 305), a number of other shows have established themselves in the north so I was really …
Not For The Faint Hearted
It’s a strange old world, and it seems that despite the sheer numbers of cars they produced, the VW world is actually quite a small place. This evening, for example, I received a private message on the Early Bay forum from a chap who had seen a picture of the bug on a post on …
Stanford Hall 2014
Seeing as I was nowhere near as hung over following Darryl and Jo’s wedding as perhaps I might have been after some other weddings (ok, most other weddings) I’ve been to over the years, and the sun was shining I decided to pop in to the lovely Stanford Hall on my way back up north …
Blasts From The Past
Part of the driving force behind potentially selling Clarence is that my folks are moving house, and as such I’m going to be losing my garage space for the bug. The Clio is going instead of Clarence of course, although where I’m going to keep them both is still something I’ve yet to figure out. …
Someone Got Shiny…..
So here we are in 2014 – and what a difference a year makes! I can’t even remember last January and whilst in some ways that’s quite a scary thought, it’s probably for the best. 12 months on, and the new job is going ok and 10 days before Christmas I moved into a lovely …