July 29th Under Starters Orders!!

2am.... Neil goes to bed!!! Having worked all Thursday we still don't have any sounds in the car, although we do have spot lights and a second battery, split charge system and 4 sockets to plug in all the electrical gizmos we are taking.
Jan comes over about 9 to find me still asleep! We go to the garage to see what can be done. As soon as Jan tells Carl that our radio isn't working he drags Billy away from what he was doing to fit a new hifi to the car... what we would do without these people god only knows!! We leave Marvin there and race around doing all the last minute things, water container, money etc. A quick trip to Abbey signs and Steve has done us proud with stickers for the our sponsors Geordie Broon MCC, Penguins MCC and The Squires. Back to the garage for 12 and we have working sounds!!! Round to Neil's and Marvin gets stickered up and Neil throws all his rubbish in Marvin, as well as Gizzy the cat who is staying with Neil's folks when we are away, while Jan returns to Barnsley to get her stuff ready. On arrival in Barnsley half the stuff Jan has packed is rejected on grounds of space and we finally leave Yorkshire for London at 6pm with Jan driving to get the hang of Marvin! Arriving at Neil's parents we deliver Gizzy cat to her holiday home. After a short visit we head for our hotel,a mere 5 miles away, getting lost on the way - what chance do we stand of reaching Mongolia! With Jan hanging out of Marvin's window asking taxi drivers for directions we finally find the hotel, what luck it is just a couple of hundred yards from the launch station in Hyde Park. So after a couple of well deserved drinks we crawl into bed...........