Saturday 7 June 2014

The Wanderer Returns



It was a long wait.



It was almost 5 weeks, in which things took longer than we thought, and we began to despair of ever seeing Brian on our drive ever again. (Yes, that's melodramatic.  We didn't realise how much we would miss him.)



So then we got the phonecall that said that BAT and ATT had pulled out all the stops to get Brian finished in time for Uttoxter Bus Stopover.  We'd already missed Deva Dubs and Rods.  Jack got the train up to York, lovely Adrian collected him from the station, and after tea, and a look around the gorgeousness he drove back.



He got home at about 1am.  It was too dark to take pictures, but I did have a look around it in the middle of the night.  Although I never thought it was possible, I fell in love with Brian all over again.



Here, oh beloved reader, is why.





Brian, back where he should be.





The beautifully upholstered seats, cream centres, Snodgen red surrounds, double diamond stitching.









The fridge and sink unit.  The fridge front was cut down from the one we did originally which wouldn't fit.  See the roundedness of the finished wood.  See the perfection of the vents.  You can't see the little oval properly, but it says ATT number 52.
























See the level of the red cushion with cream piping?  This is significant later on.



This is the extra cupboard.  It holds the gas cylinder and converts into a buddy seat.  It deserves a post of it's own later on and will get one.  It is genius.





This is the floor.  We ummed and ahhed about the floor.  Should we have it checquered?  Should we have it not?  In the end, we had it not, and we are glad.  With the business of the Dandy and Beano everywhere, the solid floor is good.



And the crowning glory, for me, is the bed.  Oh, the bed.  The old bed had 42 yr old foam, fabric with dodgy stains on it, it took 2 people to get it up, took 30 minutes on a bad day to get it up, and I had to have help getting into it.  (What can I say?  good things come in small packages.  Mostly...)

This bed has 5 inches of foam and a memory foam topper.  It has beautiful stitching and no weird smell.  It goes up so simply (I will do a video next time we go out.)  and I can get onto it with no problem.



It also, (smugness alert) takes a kingsize sheet and duvet.  Oh yes indeed.  Plenty of room here!

Two years of planning and doing and choosing and hoping and saving and travelling and meeting, finally came together.  And I do love it when a plan comes together......

Obviously he immediately needed a run out, and so we went to sunny Hunny for tea.  Beautiful fish and chips (from the yellow chipshop at the top of the road by the roundabout) in a beautiful van, with the interior and man of my dreams.






Even the sun shone with approval........


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