Hi All, long time no post. New contract has me working my wotsits off!! Still, hopefully it will pay for the March trip to visit our Turn 10 friends (nearly an expensive mention of the "S" word there!!)
Anyway, to sadder news!!
As a few of you who have visited me at JPC Estates, particularly those who have attended the Hatch Warren Beer Festival over the last couple of years, will know I don't live in a particularly troublesome part of the world. However there appear to be a certan element that enjoy vandalising other people's property.
It wasn't convenient to park it round at Gazza's any more, so to this end, "The Beast", our beloved Team JPC decored Transit Van, was temprarily parked at the local community centre car park (where the beer festival takes place), where it suffered a broken window at the weekend. Having covered it with a tarp' on Sunday, I got a call on Wednesday to say that the tarp' had been removed and another side window, plus the main windscren had been smashed. Don't you just love kids!!!

Then to top it all, a phone call from the Fire Brigade on Thursday morning to tell me it was now a burnt out wreck and a write off as the little darlings had torched it.
Now I know it wasn't he best looking van in the world ( i.e. hand pained in Hammerite etc) but althoug it was 20 years old it only had agenuine 30,000 miles on the clock and having changed the alternator and belt after the break down on the way to the ferry this year she was running like a dream!!
The Beast will be sorely missed, but hopefully we will find an alternative form of transport to get us to Le Mans in 2007!!