One Woman & Her Dog Will Save Your Seats! Jackyards Bespoke Seat Covers for your VW Transporter

Bespoke Seat Covers. A fantastic gift – or hard working accessory!

Do you drive with dogs, kids or wet gear?

Do you want a seat cover that fits – and is waterproof, comfortable, washable and long-lasting?

Would you like it in a choice of fabulous colours that won’t fade – and maybe personalised too?

If you drive a VW California SE, Beach, Ocean, Caravelle, T6, T5 or T4 then Jackyards is The Answer for the Van in your Life!

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A Brief Bark Around Britain – The Thames Path, The National Watersports Festival & ‘A Bit of a ‘Do”!

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My wardrobe reflected my lifestyle of the last two years. And meet our Lagonda!

We had to go to a ‘Do’.

My schoolfriend’s mum – my “Other Mother” – Mrs H – had invited me to celebrate her 80th Birthday.

It threw me into apoplexy.

My entire wardrobe reflected a lifestyle which, for the last two years, had consisted of living in a catering-size Corned Beef tin with the many paws; sixteen of them – and generally muddy or sandy ones at that.

When I said it, I really did mean it. “I haven’t got a THING to wear!”Continue reading “A Brief Bark Around Britain – The Thames Path, The National Watersports Festival & ‘A Bit of a ‘Do”!”

We Pack Up Our Troubles & Climb Back Into The Bubble!

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“Oh to be in England / Now that April’s there” It was a bit wet and windy, to be honest!

“Oh to be in England /Now that April’s there…” wrote Robert Browning in his poem ‘Home Thoughts From Abroad‘. Like us, he happened to be in Northern Italy at the time.

However, on April Fools Day, after two years on the road, we arrived back in the UK. Never mind the chaffinch singing on the orchard bough, we were finding it quite novel to be staying in a house, rather than a caravan. Continue reading “We Pack Up Our Troubles & Climb Back Into The Bubble!”

Back in Britain; a Fidose of Reality – Part 2

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Confronted by a Fidose of Reality, we are lucky to have Ruby to remind us “As you ramble on through life, whatever be your goal, keep your eye on the doughnut & not on the hole!”

If you have been walking with us for some time, you will know that our returns to the UK are never straightforward – and this one had reached an unprecedented zenith of complexity.

We had only arrived on British soil in November; however, by Christmas we had fitted in an assault, a boundary dispute, wild weather and Mark had been lost at sea.

But the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune were not done with us yet. Our Fidose of Reality continued into the New Year with car trouble, being forced to tow a caravan through a storm, tenant trouble and a robbery!

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