Scoff away …
Today Jeremy Hunt said, in so many ways, that if MPs don’t vote for May’s plan on Tuesday then a second referendum might well be an outcome – which would overturn Brexit. You might want to read that sentence again. And once more. The government is running shy of exposing the will of the people … now that the people are better informed.
It doesn’t bear thinking about.
I am unlikely to vote Conservative again in my lifetime. However, with Comrade Corbyn forcing a 70s agenda down our throats, I can’t see me voting Labour either. Advice please.
Now, away from politics. We’ve between campervanning since the 80s. We’ve owned six different vans from v small to pretty blooming big (aka Doris). Until recently we used to scoff at old people (like me …) turning up with a van as big as Tescos. And double scoff at old people turning up with a van as big as Tescos pulling a car, or similar. They weren’t proper vanners … they had too much comfort (ehh?) and, what was with pulling a car? Why not just have a decent car and tug a caravan?
Well … he starts quietly … mid-last week we went the final step and bought a trailer on eBay for Doris to lug about our Piaggio mp3. And, on the same day, I booked Doris in to get a towbar fitted. This pulling a trike about, which is probably as much about mid-life crisis as it is anything else, is not a cheap option. All together we’re getting on for £6,500: nearly-new bike, towbar and nearly-new trailer. And don’t forget the extra 1.5 metre length to the van and the multitude of behind-the-hands scoffs that will follow us from site-to-site and aire-to-aire. And we certainly won’t get any help from anyone if we struggle to park Doris with her new appendage. Nobody will come to our rescue, Everyone will blame our choices.
Our trailer – not our bike … which is red.
Will it last? I hope so. We could have really done with the trike in 2017 in Croatia (+ a trip into Bosnia) and would have loved to have had it for our 8 months away on our original Italy/Greece tour in 2014. And, now we’ve definitely got Morocco in our sights for a 6-weeker sometime soon, the idea of having a motorbike to head off into the Sahara seems like a really good plan.
We’re having the towbar fitted (including rearwheels to prevent grounding – soooo excited) in a couple of weeks. And we are picking up the trailer – an unused Armitage side-entry motorcycle trailer fitted especially for an mp3 – on the way back from Scotland in the second week in April.
V excited.
We’ve had Mary here for the weekend and I’m working Monday and Tuesday at Jen’s. We’ve a funeral to attend (nobody you’d know) on Friday and then Richard and Caroline’s for the weekend. Hurrah!
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I hope you’re surviving the storms …
