Arnie's adventures

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Recycled hubcap clock

I found graces broken spongebob clock whilst cleaning her room the other day and the thought popped into my head about using the clock movement and putting it in one of our old hubcaps at work, so the next day I drilled a hole in the centre of the hubcap and stuck the movement through and ended up with a super cool clock :)

I may make a few more with the rusty hubcaps and see what they look like on the wall :)

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Tuesday, 19 February 2013

2nd drive of the year :)

On Sunday we made the most of the nice weather and popped down to Eastney to chill on the beach of a while, there's nothing better than having a nice cold drink with your feet up looking out at the sea! On the way there we passed to other green VW camper and gave them a wave.

When grace got bored we popped up to Portsdown hill to have a kick around for a bit whilst looking over the city, next time I will be more organised and take some lunch with us and chill for a bit longer. We saw a blue and a white beetle flying along across the top of the hill but I was to slow to catch them up.

I hope next weekend is just as nice so I can enjoy the green machine once again :)

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Sunday, 17 February 2013

1st drive of 2013

We took Arnie out for his first drive of the year yesterday, Grace was outside getting excited when I went to pick her up as she saw Arnie driving up the road, she was more excited to see him than me lol.

We took him for a little spin along Southsea seafront then we headed up to portsdown hill then along to Bedhampton to go bowling. The green machine drove lovely with no problems at all, I still have to give him his service that I always do at the beginning of the year.
We are looking forward to more days out in him this year.

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Arnie's new home for a while

I parked Arnie up in his new home today, now I got some dry storage so I can replace the roof vent and fit a new passenger door. I'm looking forward to the show season to start, can't wait to get out and about in the green machine again.

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Snow, snow, snow

As the whole country knows, its been snowing everywhere over the last week or so and its been causing mayhem!

I was hoping to take Grace out in Arnie on my birthday on Saturday but the snow changed my mind, I didn't fancy slipping and sliding about in the old beast whilst slowly freezing to death inside. As I was snowed in on Friday I got my work mate Lee to take a few snaps of Arnie looking sad in the snow and I thought id share them with you all.

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Arnie in a calendar

Arnie made it into thelatebay.com calendar this year!

If you have a late bay or are thinking of buying one check out there website/forum. they are a great bunch of helpful people on there with all the information you could ever need.

Monday, 31 December 2012

Happy new year

Happy new year everyone!! I hope next year is a lot drier than this one so we can go on more adventures :)

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Arnie's first wedding

On Saturday we done our first wedding in Arnie, it was a lovely hot sunny day and we had to take the groom and his friends to Warblington church then to the wedding reception in Petersfield after.
In all there were 3 buses, Arnie, my dads westfalia and out friend Steve's westfalia, they all looked great with the ribbons on.

If anyone in the Portsmouth or surrounding area fancies some colourful buses for you big day drop me an email at jimmy@bearbodyworks.co.uk and we will see if we can help you out.

Putting the ribbons on at the Bluebell pub in Emsworth

Looking good

Outside Warblington church

Warblington Church

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Bestival rocked!!!

I'm back after finally recovering from a very messy weekend at Bestival on the Isle of Wight. Four days of drinking, dancing and not sleeping much soon catches up on you, especially as I'm getting on a bit now ;)

I will definitely be booking early bird tickets for next year as soon as they come on sale, I loved the dance tents even though they were crammed to the hilt with drunk sweaty people. I cant remember seeing many live bands that I've heard of, only Two Door Cinema Club, the others were just random singers and bands but were great.

I only took a few photos whilst I was there with my iphone, i didn't want to risk breaking my Nikon.

Leaving Portsmouth for the Isle of Wight

3 litres of vodka with dry ice

Party people everywhere

A Bestival sunset

The main stage

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Packing for Bestival

Right i just started packing Arnie with all the stuff I need for 5 days at Bestival over the Isle of Wight, I've been looking forward to this since I came back from Camp Bestival. The weather forecast says its going to be hot and sunny all weekend! that's a first this year ;)

So no need for the awning, just the sun canopy for me, then loads of rum, vodka, jager and beers, 10 litres of water and a few t shirts and shorts, sorted!!

I do have 1 tip for anyone going in a car/van next year, DONT USE WIGHTLINK! they are a complete rip off, its cost me £150 return for a 30 minute ferry ride across from Portsmouth. I can see why not many people visit the Isle of Wight as this ferry company don't do anything to help. If you are from anywhere else I would advise you to use Red Funnel ferries as they do deals all the time. That's my little rant over, now I'm going to try and enjoy my weekend away.

Just thought I would add a list of the live acts for the weekend below.