A few of us Cornish boys and girls went up to Bush Farm near Saltash on Sunday for a bit of a play
The story began with myself (blue 200TDI Disco), Pepsi (red 300TDI Disco), Jimmy (black RRC) and BustRucket (green 200TDI Disco) all meeting up at various points along the A30 and the journey began with Jerry .......... at this point i should explain that the Mrs likes to name all our cars and my 200TDI got it's name because "Jerry Can" (cue the groans and skyward glances) .......... anyways back to the report .....
So the day began with Jerry suddenly losing power just 8 miles into the journey up, this turned out to be a lack of go go juice but it wasn't my fault .... honest ..... the gauge is reading wrong .... after that problem was resolved by the nice people at the nearest fuel station (robbing b*st*rds!!) we had a trouble free drive to Saltash Services where we met some others who had arranged to meet us there in Zuk's and a Toyota king cab but we'll forgive them their misfortune, soon the Plymouth posse arrived and after much hand shaking and photo taking we were on our way to uncharted territory
At Bush Farm the first problem was when Paul in the king cab got stuck up to his axles after rescuing a Zuki so i tried to pull him out with no success ......... now at this point a nice chap approached me and offered his assistance but when i saw what he was driving i couldn't help but wonder ........ yes both myself and the king cab were pulled out by non less than a VW campervan!!!
A short interval was then experienced as we straightened Pauls steering arm and then we head off into the unknown once more .......
I seem to remember telling folks last week that i'd be taking it easy on the day but once my "flip top cranium" had been emptied of all common sense and fear taking it easy was a thing of the past .... especially when i saw a big muddy puddle in the quarry ....... glad i fitted the snorkel ......... needless to say wet carpets and new fangled liquid cooled headlamps ensued .......
"I really REALLY hope i sealed the snorkel properly!"
STUCK? ............... send the boy out to the work..........
Getting stuck seemed to be the order of the day and my little group said it was a real advantage having a "gung ho idiot" in front to test the waters for them ............. but if you aren't getting stuck your not trying hard enough ..........
To be continued........