Over £200 Collected

The day at the carshow was great fun and I met loads of other Morris Minor owners who offered invaluable advice on pre journey maintenance and the spares that I should carry.

At these events I am always impressed by how friendly and generous people are- always happy to talk to the slightly weird hippy bloke in front of the rusty Morris! The radio and newspaper certainly helped as many people had heard about what we are doing and came over for a chat.

I am off work this week ( enjoying a few days at home with the girls and the puppy!) so I have had ample time to do a few jobs on the Morris and in preparation for our adventure.

First I fixed the boot catch which annoyingly would not close.

Then I went on line and ordered a boot full of spares including fan belts, fuses, rotor arms, plugs and a couple of condensers from separate sources as these seem to fail very regularly.

Finally today I got round to counting up the money in the collection tins. This was money collected at work, at Welford and Wickham Produce in the Park, Henwick Fields car show and at the race course on Saturday.

The grand total was £216 getting us very close to our £2k target so I hope with one last push we will achieve it before we set off. I am currently working with a colleague to sort out a sweepstake as to when and where we will break down or have a row which should raise a few extra pennies.

Only 14 days before we set off- I can't wait......Lynn can!