Here is the Pit Bike, back from the dead, it will be sold soon to pay for the Beamers seat recovering
Job for today done, most Moho’s come with a wind out awing which is just a sun canopy really but set into the exterior cover is a channel which a substantial (like a caravan) independent awning can be fitted
Trouble with this is the Moho awning is positioned halfway across the habitation door which would mean the wall of the extra awning would foul it
You can see the extra connection rail i have made and fitted to the existing awning case to avoid drilling the Moho. this rail is 3.3 metres long the same lenght as our driveaway awning
Its only worth putting the full awning up for stays of about 5 days or more which because of work commitments can’t be done till next year so, I will remove the rail for the rest of this season
Just got back, great couple of days, was a bit sweaty on Friday.
Now back to business as usual, the van was scrapped at the end of March and I bought the Mondeo and started using it on April 1st!! It had a fresh (no advisories) MOT and a recorded mileage of 119731 and cost £1095.00. It was hoped it would last till November when pension age is reached and would then be binned. Well, on Monday I noticed the Clutch had started slipping and by Friday, the car was undriveable, so, yet another vehicle is going to recycling on my account (that makes nine in recent years). I got £220.00 for it scrap so it cost £875.00 overall £0.15 per mile. Now before Tuesday I need to get another work horse that will last 86 days so lets see what we get tomorrow
BTW, it’s has 125231 miles on it now (5500 miles covered) that’s how the £0.15p per mile is worked out
It was too hot to try the new windbreak over the weekend so we have assembled it in the garden
There is a design issue in that the support bracket can slip off the pin so, I am going to tap a thread onto the pin so I can put a nut and washer on there
Got fed up with the tapping tool, ordered 12 (need 6) m6 (6mm inside diameter) screw collars which will slide over the pins and tighten to the pin, coming from China but should be here not next weekend but the weekend after
Wasn’t a design error it was Spitty having a Blonde Moment, the support leg gets sandwiched between the cross poles so the pinned down material stops the movement and the support leg sliding off 
I’ll support leg, you can count on me to have a ham salad and egg mayo.
Next weeks photos will be the Dometic Driveaway awning in the Garden, practice makes perfect, might camp in it for the night, tents were never that expensive back in the day 
But they weren’t inflatable back then.
The biggest problem here is, how to get stuff back in the bag 
i always think, don’t get involved
Planning is the key.
Pick the new workhorse up today, feel a bit sad, it was the young ladies faithful companion for the last eight years, I will do my best to nurse it for the next 85 days.
Where’s the missing tit, and why?
I would just guess, some folks nick VW badges, some nick the Tit from Titanium , they’re just avin a laff
Odd sense of humour, but yeah, I thought as much.
The anium has just been collected for its final journey, just gotta achieve 85 days with the replacement.
We had 27 brand new cars between 1989 and 1996, then we kept one till 2005 my wife has had six or seven new ones since then. I have needed a workhorse since 2002 so could not use a new vehicle as it would get wrecked, so as such, I have probably got through 30 used examples since then, at official retirement age, I am going to buy my first brand car in my own right (maybe a Leccy one), no idea yet as I ain’t give it no thought