I am still alive

I am posting this, not because there are any major changes to the van but to prove that i do other things to keep the peace in the house.

Remember the bombsite of a garden i had left with the parts from the inside of the van ?



Yes rather untidy... well in good old conversion style it now looks like this..



Not bad for an afternoon, anyway no more non conversion blog, back to business as usual next time.

Somewhere to sleep!

After the adjustments to the table in the previous blog, I needed to get a cushion for the box to level things out and to stop getting skelfs in my rear end, (no not a pretty thought). I didn't realise there are shops in the high street, well Jamaica Street in Glasgow, that sell foam for cushions in any sizes. So armed with measurements i went and got my foam, and it is now in pride of place on the box.



I am going to let the pictures do most of the talking on this blog as they are showing what the van looks like before and after the bed is put in place.



Another step closer to going away overnight, just need to get the gas connected to the cooker and the curtains put up.

Roll on next pay day!

No I haven't given up

Just incase you thought that i had given up on the conversion as i had not updated the blog recently, then sorry but sanity has not returned and yes I am still going.

I have been putting off doing the bed but it has come to the point where it had to get done. I had decided that using the box that was added on the last blog, the chairs that are still in, and convert the table to drop down to be the middle of the bed.

To do this i had to change the table leg to two adjustable legs, just like so




Bed almost done just need to sort out the cushion for the box.


The other things that have been happening are lots of small jobs but necessarry ones.

I have put up curtain rails on the windows and the dividing doorway,

My curtains will arrive once measured and made


Remember this, My £5 special

Now looks like... And from the rear.....


The Last thing i did to the van was to finally give it a wash and white spirit shower, the rear doors were covered in tar spots and unfortunately once you start taking them off you find yourself in some sort of obssessive compulsive disorder when you start trying to clean off every black spot until you realise that that last one you rub is actually a stone chip that no matter how much you try is not going to come off.

During my time sorting out the small jobs, i did recieve an emergency call from Mairi to say that her and Ella had cycled from Johnstone to Lochwinnoch, major achievement for Mairi, saying that they could not make it back, so I ended up collecting them and bikes.





Due to 2 certain individuals not seeing the value of sleep,(Ella & Nathan) we decided to take them for a drive and all piled into the van, poor baby has not been out the driveway in three days, and went out.

Unknown to me there seemed to be monkeys swinging about the hills and one got in the van and started swinging around..





Finally, yes I am sad, but I thought i would ad another photo of the van as i thought it was looking quite good after its bath.


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