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The ol' beast did well...

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  The ol' beasty First on the shopping list! "So how big a van do we need?" "Well, I'd err on the side of caution and get the biggest one we can for the money." says I glancing around the living room knowing full well that I wasn't going to get all of the clutter, paraphernalia, and junk in anything this side of a 7.5 tonner. I'd considered a removals firm for a brief moment in time.. But lottery number quotes coming  back from well intentioned removals firms, now suffering terminal decline in business and an unsure future thanks to Boris and his stupid ideas put paid to that thought pretty much from the off. We've neither the budget nor the desire to get someone else to do it for us, and besides.....we've got the Barkministrator to consider too. So van shopping was the priority. First rule of vehicle shopping, figure your budget, stick with it, and be prepared to view a lot of sheds before you come across Prince Charmin. And hell there was a
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Like The Great Escape...minus the tunnels, of course!

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The open road....a myth if ever there was one! Escape to Spain To assume this was a well planned and thought through exercise is doing it a severe injustice.  It wasn't!  Like all major life changing decisions, it should be done in the cold clinical light of day, a balanced assessment of the pros and cons, a measured and calculated assessment of the situation, and a good night's sleep on it. Or.... A few glasses of something alcoholic, another desparate attempt to balance the personal finances after another hugely expensive trip to Tesco for 3 days of meager supplies, and a flurry of WhatsApp messages pinging the phone with such regularity you could see the battery power indicator depreciating with free aplomb, and the game as afoot. A friend had oh-so-kindly stepped up to the plate and offered us the use of her place in Spain in exchange for us meeting the running costs of the empty property, helping her out financially, and us by greatly reducing our overheads. So there we sa
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