Category: Weekly Travels
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11th April – Brecon Beacons
In my last blog I was having some issues with warnings displaying on the dashboard of the van, telling me that there were problems with emissions and with fuel supply. Steve, who tends the old van, reset the messages with his computer and all was briefly OK, until I was cruising along the A43 on…
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29th February & 3rd March 2024 – South, West & Local
I try and plan these trips so that I minimise the van miles. There are whiteboards up on the wall in the warehouse listing all my current and pending deals for stock, which I’m in the process buying. Having them laid out like that lets me look for sellers in the same general area so…
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15th February 2024 – All The Way To Essex
It has been two weeks since my last blog. I went out collecting last week but didn’t report back. Great collections and lovely people, but a dark and rainy run down the M40 and then around the western M25 does not provide much subject material. On top of that I did not spot a single…
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1st February 2024 – Heading West
Looking back this is my first published story since last November when I popped over to the Cotswolds. It’s not that I have been staying in the Warehouse all that time, but writing about grinding round the M25 in the miserable winter dark and the rain does not make much of a tale. True, I…
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30th November 2023 – A Quick Trip To The Cotswolds
In England, according to my history podcasts and audiobooks, history is driven by geography. In very crude terms Britain is divided into two sections. There is the low-lying, fertile and easy to farm south and east while around the fringes the terrain gets harder, more mountainous, and less productive. The northern hills, the Welsh Marches…
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9th November 2023 – Southampton and a visit from the press
It was a glorious autumn day. The sun being low in the sky lit up the trees now turning, late this year, to their autumn colours. Some of the trees have lost their leaves already, a few are still green, but the red and golden leaves caught the sun and shone back. It was a…
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2nd November 2023 – All Around the Big Smoke
The Big Smoke being London. Yes readers last Thursday I planned to circumnavigate the M25, the London Orbital Motorway without passing Go, as I collected 5 sets of models. I nearly didn’t set off at all as we were promised a storm, Storm Ciaran. According to the BBC it was going to wash the South-East…
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19th October 2023 – Stonnall & Bicester
I didn’t write up last week’s outing, it was a bit low on things to write about really. Put simply it was a very early start in the dark and the wet followed by a 4 hour thrash up the M6 to North Manchester and another 4 hour thrash back down the M6, not quite…
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4th/5th October 2023 – Berkhamstead & Poole
Justine was on holiday so I was standing in for her. This meant going to the warehouse before getting on the road and creating the day’s invoices and mailing labels. As I’d arranged to meet John in Berkhamstead at 9.00am, that meant a very early start. I was on the road by 7:30am with the…
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21st/22nd September 2023 – Stratford & Farnham
The weather this week has been horrible, solid rain, however Thursday 21st came out sunny and I had a pleasant, short flip up the M40 to Stratford on Avon. It is only about a hour so just around the corner in my terms. Stratford on Avon is worth spending time looking around. My wife and…
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