Word Art!

While in the 'off' season for the van, you find yourself with time to fiddle about with fun things, like the Wordle below. Click on the pic to have a proper look. I like the fact that the words "baby", "husband", "van" and "great" all feature prominently!

Time for a brew?

Just a quick one - look what I made!  This will be a regular fixture in future van trips - we drink a whole lorra tea when we are out and about...

tea makes us cosy!

Our 'things to do' list

Anyone who owns a camper van which needs...*ahem*...attention from time to time, will know about those constant "to do" lists.  We have a full programme for Trevor's winter period when he's off the road.  It seems to be constantly expanding but here's an outline of what we'd love to get done this year...


 - Re-cover front driver and passenger seats.  Here's the "before" photo:

Luxury travel!

The holes in the seats are from extensive welding (as noted in our MOT sheet, ahem...) and they've matured from pin pricks to the full-on seam-to-seam rips you see today.  Pretty, it ain't, and Trevor deserves better.  We're hoping to have them re-done to be back to their full glory, we're not planning on any crazy colours or fabrics, just plain new seats with no holes in! Luxury!


 - Baby bunk - we are aiming to manufacture our own baby bunk to go over the front cab. Sounds ambitious but the Husband found a CF being sold with a baby bunk - it seems they manufactured some to fit in the cab - we have got some pics of the bunk and fixings from the guy who was selling the van (unfortunately he wasn't able to just sell us the bunk without the van in tow). So, Husband assures me its a straightforward job so my job (or rather, my Mother's) is to make the hammock bit.  We'll see how it goes but it's gotta be better than the baby's "Coffin" arrangement!


 - The key barrel on our van is temperamental, to say the least. In fact it nearly caused us to break down just a few miles from home on our last journey of the summer! It also played up in Ireland this year - we ended up with the key stuck in there and having to start/stop the van using the connect/disconnect electrics method - what a total pain.  It would be great to get this sorted once and for all.

Add to this the usual list of 'tweaks' which are needed on a regular basis and you have the recipe for a busy winter! Trouble is, this year, Husband is working in Japan a lot and I really can't see myself manufacturing bunk brackets or doing a spot of welding...

You never know when a camper's around the corner

Wandering round village backstreets in Wiltshire on a pub crawl, we came across this beauty which we think is a rarely seen Ford Starcraft six-wheel van.

Very excited husband!

 I love the little ladder on the back, cute! But I don't think I'd like sleeping above the cab, not much headroom there...

And on our most recent trip to Norfolk, we came across a Bedford CF campervan which was even older than Trevor! We spotted this in a camp site we were driving past, and quickly zoomed in to take a pic! Unfortunately the owners weren't about - we would have loved to have a chat about this van, it looks like it has ace sliding front doors - very snazzy - and was in great nick.

Trevor's cousin!