Blog # 1: 10 Oct 2006

First ever blog. It's mostly about vans...

Quit my job in June 2006 cos I was pretty bored of it and couldn't face another summer in the office. Started looking for a new one; signed up to loads of agencies, monster.co.uk, guardian jobs etc.

No one would employ me though.

Apart from my parents.

And someone called Petra Barran who owned a mobile chocolate van called Jimmy! (www.chocstar.co.uk) They look a bit like this...

I told Petra that I had a van called Bertha and that maybe she could help Jimmy out at some festivals they were doing in the summer. She liked the idea. Bertha was also keen to show off her recent insa makeover (www.insaland.com):

So I worked at my parents' removal company during the week and with Petra at festivals on the weekends. I quickly realised that festival work was the best work that i had ever done and combined two things that i absolutely love.. vans and food. Over the summer i talked alot about getting my own van and selling Latin American food from it.

So. I found this one on ebay and decided to buy it:

Unfortunately someone from Scotland got in there first and payed the full asking price. Actually bidding on it though and being the high bidder for a while had scared the shit out of me which I kind of liked. I needed to find one that looked as good as this one though.

I remembered that someone at a festival had a Citroen H van which they sold tea and toast from. I googled them, found a dealer in France (they were never made in the UK) and he found me this one:

Well, the photo wont paste.. It looks like a storm trooper. At the moment i have a deposit down on it and, providing it passes my dealers checks, i actually buy it this weekend. That's when things get really scary. Can't wait.