“So what about my year and a bit off”

the last bit of 2011 and 2012 was all abit of a haze really, went back on the driving for a while but soon realized lorry driving is a mugs game, (here's a tga fronting up to the comfortably numb) just seemed to spend more time sleeping in a cab than my own bed and what with the governments new how to squeeze more blood out of a stone idea called cpc, £300.00 exam teaching you what you’ve done over the past thirty odd years (rip off springs to mind) so back in the draw goes the hgv licence,   

In February came a change of house, now back living i the village i grew up in purton,

and its got its own iron age camp

in fact this little village is steeped in history from ringsbury camp built 50bc, the romans, witch trails, the list goes on,

have been passing the time by trying out the markets again, not too bad but the weather has killed it abit this year gone, was good to see a lot of the old faces again, one downside to all this was the stall got bigger and bigger and the comfortably numb let us know she was too old for all that work by making me fork out for a new gearbox, clutch and drive shaft, so she's now in retirement until spring and spends her days telling the new one all about her glory days,

   

always wanted one and in my opinion the best vans ever made even poppy fell in love at first sight, and with the size of her we’ve now pushed the stall up to 20/30 foot too, so that’s a brief update on the life of  poppy and john and now some randomness i remember  doing this back in the dark and distant days of junior school so i had to try it again “the fun way of growing hyacinth bulbs”

 

(randomness courtesy of the ghost of Billy bagwash)