Cookhill, Alcester & Holbrook, Belper…
For the last day of this trip away we departed from our, not so great, digs in Evesham this morning to head along to Cookhill.
Great to see Wayne again and his ‘03 TF 135 in paint code JFV, for fitting of soft-ride-kit and gearbox oil change. With a certain degree of relief all bolts came undone easily, with only one putting up a slight fight as is the way!
Thanks for Wayne for the cuppas and the veggies, the tomatoes will come in well with Jon’s steak this evening. He’s not had one this week, all hotels are struggling for chefs, very sadly for them, a continuation of a problem following Covid, apparently, having chatted to the owners of the fantastic, ‘Vernon – Hotel & Restaurant’, that we stayed at in Hanbury, a very sorry state of affairs for the people concerned.
From Wayne’s we headed further north and went over to Holbrook, as Ruth’s ‘02 TF 135, in Spectre, was in need of a new CAT. Grinder deployed for a couple of the CAT bolts, as is common, but at least the Lambda sensor came out and was transplanted into the new CAT, saving an added expense there. So ‘Destiny’ is good to go again.
Really lovely, as always, to see Ruth, Mark and their gorgeous woofers, Sam, Percy & Ruby, lots of fusses, whilst we had a cuppa in their fab garden, so good to just sit for a while and enjoy a long overdue catch-up.
Home now and great to see Binks.
Unfortunately, our poor van is struggling again, +500,000 miles is showing again on the engine and time for a new one maybe or just a little tweak! So the next couple of days will be spent sorting it ready for the next trip on Monday morning… – https://ift.tt/ZULpVOQ
