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Clive-O Rides Again! and Trowbridge Update

July 30th, 2006

Hi Guys,

Thanks to the magic once again cast by Tony… “Clive-O Rides Again”.

Not as terminal as at first thought although old Clive had us worried for a little while but now he’s all fixed up and running schweet once again.

Explanation for those familiar with engines… the fault was a single hydraulic cam-follower.

Explanation for those who don’t care for engines… a bit that kinda connects one of the roundy-round things to the uppy-downy things fell poorly and needed Doc-Tony to put a new one in so that the roundy-round things and the uppy-down things liked eachother once again.

We bought genuine Volkswagen bits too which cost a few pounds more but then you know the last lot went for 17 years so the little extra is a good investment and Clive is worth it.

So, he’s purring once again and we’re planning our next trips away already… wish he had been good for Trowbridge but we enjoyed the spot we had for our tent just as much

Trowbridge Festival Update….
We havent really posted much on Trowbridge as we’ve been a little busy since so… here is a small write-up…

We arrived late Friday and even though we had passes from the gov’ner we couldn’t get in as the screws had locked the place down like a lockedy down thing and wouldn’t let us pass, so, with a little help from our friends H+S we snook in the ‘back-door’ (oo-er missus… Frankie Howard moment… lets remember. . . . . . ok) and pitched our tent in the space between a stall a van and H+S tent (very kind of them to give up their view of Stage1).

A few ciders and JDs flowed and we got to meet some nice folk, listen to some music and then crash …zzzZZZ *<|-)

Saturday we were up early-ish and went for a wander and really just spent the day drinking cider and sitting around on the grass, taking in the stuff on the stalls... by about 11pm we had been drinking all day (sensibly of course... LOL) and we retired to listed to Stage1 and get some sleep as we were stll suffering from the honeymoon the week earlier.

Strangely we slept like logs... got up about 8am for brekkie in the brekkie field then back to bed for more snoozes then up for a bit of shopping before travelling home.

The trip really did us both a world of good and weirdly (what with the cider and constant noise) we caught up on tons of sleep and came home refreshed... very odd.

So, Trowbridge... in summary it's a very cool, chilled place to be and we would recommend a trip there although whether we would stay on the camping field or not is another question. If you do go.. as with anythin like this TAKE TOILET ROLL and a peg for your nose as you WILL need them, but then that's half the fun ?:-/

Thanks to H+S for the invite and for introducing us to some cool folk.. we enjoyed it totally and will defo come along again!

Thats all.... oh... original Trowbridge post is here and photos from Trowbridge are here.

C+S

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