As we will be living in Weston until we sell the house, once we officially own Crossways, we will be going up on a Monday and staying until Thursday or Friday to project manage work, decorate, sort the garden etc and coming back to Weston for the weekend for a rest! My cunning plan was to buy a van and take stuff up to Norfolk every week until we have finally moved in. Good eh? And so we've bought a van.
This is Vinny V, a Renault Trafic, 10 years old, an ex-plumbers workhorse. Well used but with loads of years of use left in her, absolutely filthy inside but basically sound with hardly any knocks or scratches. BUT...hundreds of stickers. Talk about sticker overkill. This photo was taken after some were removed but you get the gist. It took about three days to remove them.
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Anyway, she's been de-stickered, the cab's been cleaned - I think the plumber liked sausage rolls - CoCo got a free meal from all the pastry crumbs on the floor, the seats have been cleaned and new covers ordered, and the back has been hoovered and cleaned. Two new tyres, a service this week and she should be good as new.
She's already been put to good use - took a load of stuff including a sofa to the dump for our good friend Jo who is clearing a house left to Labrador Rescue. We managed to sell a good solid desk to a nice man for a fiver at the dump but had to do the deal in a car park down the road. It felt a bit odd and I did suspect that they might rob us and leave us for dead, but no, the nice man handed over the fiver for Lab rescue and went on his way with his new desk, happy as Larry!
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