it’s friday and i’ve been invited by adele who races ‘striptease’ in vwdrc to show the bus in a lineup of race cars at the deva dubs show in chester… i load up the bus with beer, loads of fruit, flyers, stickers, some t shirts and enough computer and camera gear to sink a battleship……

after a hurried breakfast we’re on the road, my son louie and i are on a quick blatt up north to use up some petrol. we romp up the m5 in the bus then cut across south of birmingham on the m42 then head for leeds onthe m1. we’re going to pick up a new…

newquay ! all the worst things about a town, BUT by the beach! traffic jams, over priced parking, staggering gangs of beer monsters overlooked by ugly bored looking bouncers, overpriced tat that you don’t need, nasty smelling greasy fast food impacted into the pavement leaving the stench of burned rancid fat in the air. badly…

after a rush to get people to the station i’m off in the bus, heading south, although i’m going to a gallery preview in dartmouth i’m still in with the general flow of traffic heading to run to the sun in newquay. i trundle through the outskirts of bristol heading for the M5 with the…

just got a nice big parcel of TMI interior panels, ordered from Karmann Konnection in march. finally arrived today, new door panels, kick panels and long side panel for the inside of the bus. nice and shiny, no rips, no scuffs and no foot prints! that’ll last about a day ! Tim_BBB from the bristol…

been checking out who actually comes here and what they look at, tracking the log files and stats. found out that the bestselling thing in the merchandise shop is the akciddento license plate surrounds ! who’d have thought it. also added the akciddento combat bear to the set of merchandise, available in army or marines…

well, the response from users of the volkszone forum seems positive “I like it, simple to use and looking gooood And the diary entry for May 3rd is HYSTERICAL!!!!” —peechiz from the vwdrc ‘I’m still shocked at the prospect of sombody doing a web site about their adventures that doesnt suck, Looking foward to the…

had a final meeting with jake from firebox about the site. should get the rest of the code integration done tomorrow with one or two tweaks on the weblog to make searching the archives easier and the presentation a little more intuitive. i posted a link and a ‘help me’ question on the volkszone forum…

after a lot of reading and looking around and some uhmming and ahhing i finally bit the bullet and sent off a cheque to martin taylor at taylor machine services as part payment on a DTA electronic fuel injection system and a CustomSpeedParts porsche fan conversion. martin has promised me it can all be sorted…

after a few days of hacking and testing and playing about it looks like the new weblog software is doing what i want and looking ok too ! i’m using the new version of ‘movabletype’. all singing and all dancing. it should be easier to maintain for me and easier to navigate for you, quicker…