Well here’s the news for the week. After endless searching and panic we have (subject to viewing and exchanging money and handshakes) found a car for the rally. Last weekend I searched the Friday-ad website and found a Left Hand Drive Peugeot 205 available for £195 ‘cheap as chips’ I said to myself in a David Dickinson manner. Instead of contacting the guys about it, who (I probably shouldn’t say, but) have been really rubbish for the past couple of weeks, I decided to begin making enquiries and sent an email for further information.
Next day an email is received from the seller and some pictures of a white Pug 205 in immaculate condition and a rather funny email about the owner’s Left hand driving, French wife. Fairly impressed and eager to view the car I contacted the others by email and text to make sure they saw it. I immediately get a call back from Luke (who had just returned from an RAF training week – I let him off for the slack communication) and had a catch up chat. Next day on my home from work I get a call from Luke ‘we got a car!’, ‘what car?’ I said. Luke decided to call the bloke from the pug 205 advert for a chat and ‘bam’ they reached an agreement there and then. Pickup is this weekend with the team convoying up to Norwich to collect it. The sod closed the deal without me, but hey he knew I was keen on it anyway.
…. Later that evening I also managed to test out the ex-army mentholated spirit stove. Unfortunately there were no instructions included (Macho army soldiers and instructions? Nah! I can’t imagine it), so after a bit of confusion I eventually managed to get it going. It took approx 7mins to boil a mug of water and when I tried to extinguish the dam thing I couldn’t blow it out. I assume a wet cloth prepared before hand would be best in future. I will become a camper and get my scout badges one day.
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