The last random week

I got home last Friday teatime to find 4 Irish blokes turned up in a car at at Priory rd, Brighouse (good parking btw). Now the council have been very good with me down there and the last thing I want is any type of enforsement order in my home town so it was time to move on.

I don’t know if I caught you up with the fact that I now have a 6 month old kitten live with on the bus so it was going to be interesting to see how she would cope moving. She’s been a gem and hops off the bus for wander and comes back as good as Harvey, my 18 month old lab.

Anyroad :unamused: ………… as look would have it the completion of our home completed last Monday, finally allowing me to spend some cash on the bus. …. I digress but this meant I could book the bus for test, so after a few modifacations to my ‘a’ frame I set off and spent last sat to Monday at Saltaire before the test on Tuesday.

Now I have not done any work on the bus itself since I bought it although a had had it in for a pre mot and knew that the tyres needed sorting, it had a broken spring on the rear n/s a couple of lights sortin and a few pipes securing underneath.

4 remolds with about 9 mm on them across the back and 2 almost new hankocks across the front cost £490

the work on the bus and the cost of the test was £394 so now I was able to put the £165 road tax in the window and were off

stopping at the end of the runway at Leeds Bradford Airpot tonight, I love to watch the planes take off.

pics to follow btw

marlow:
pics to follow btw

Yes please, and sharpish if you don’t mind.

Ken.

How do you insure something like your bus? Are there specialist policies? Really looking at something similar as wife is possibly being made redundant later in the year & it’s something we’ve talked about for a long time, either a bus conversion or a narrow boat.

At the momento the Bus is insured as a classic bus. I am about to advise about change of use, but to be honest the only reason I insure the bus is to keep it road legal, the cost by the way is £184 fully comp agreed value as a bus.

If I get broken into that’s my loss.

Wonder if one of the caravan / motorhome people would give you some relatively cheap cover ■■

I’m sure they will, might cost me a few bob more but hey-ho . The bus is bought and paid for as are all the fittings, how I see it is the cost of my mortgage/rent + council tax + water rates (which are the main 3 are normaly well in excess of what?£100/week?

The same for me is tax test and insurance… Around £15 week. If I live tight a can manage with 1 day a week but I think sod it I’ll do 2 then I can call at the pub the other 5 nights of the week

keep posting :exclamation: