Health of Lucy Update - the Cavalry is on its way ..................

I'm taking advantage of the wireless connection to post a quick update.  Firstly I am delighted to say both sets of parts were safely handed to Miss Anderson on Penrith and Oxenholme Railway stations this morning (despite floods holding up the train) and the wonderful guy from Rayrigg Motors sitting it out at the station waiting for over an hour.  Virginia is now in the air and I will be driving (tentatively) across town to pick her up from the airport in an hour or so.

I tried to fit the new HT leads today (some spare parts that I carried here from England) only to find out that Just Kampers sent the wrong ones ........... well I can't make them fit and they don't have the same fittings as the ones that are on, grrrrrr. So here's hoping it's not them that are faulty. Otherwise my luck continues to stay with me.  A lovely German couple have just come and parked next to me and it turns out the man has an old VW van like mine and spent a winter re-building the engine.  He knows I have to play around with mine tomorrow, so maybe calling on his assistance if required.


I'm also conscious that most of the photo's posted have been of Morocco and me, not of the beautiful Lucy.  so have taken a snap of her today.  She's wearing a fine coat of dust. I decided not to wash her, as the less beautiful she looks, the less attention she gets. I know that Des (the man who did most of the work on Lucy) is putting a link between his website and this blog, so for the sake of any VW enthusiasts there will be some more bus photo's.  For those wanting to see more, scroll to the bottom of the page and you can see her looking shiney in Spain about 5 weeks ago.

Today's been devoted to spring cleaning the van in anticipation of Princess Virginia's arrival, taking it easy in the sunshine and swimming in the pool. 


The wifi connection has enabled me to listen to Radio 3 and Radio 4 all day.  The Today programme and Melvynn Bragg this morning sounded wonderfully English and civilised.  The awful weather forecast reminded me why I'm here............

Well operation 'fix Lucy' is going 90% to plan so far ................. lets hope my ham fisted mechanicing does the job tomorrow ................

Until next time blogsters ..............

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