Well the trip was designed to be a nice easy going trip. Normally when I do UK runs it ends up a mad rush everywhere.

I borrowed a van from John Sheehan,a nice 2005 Fiat Ducato (very very nice van to drive), we left Galway at 4:00 am and headed for Dublin Port. No dramas on the trip over and I even managed to convince Dad that the GPS was a good thing.

We stopped at machine7 on the way to Daventry to collect a few bits for the buggy and arrived in Daventry at my aunt Carmel’s at 18:00, enough time for a few drinks before dinner.

Unfortunately over night we got some very bad news, my Grandmother, Beaso passed away during the night. She was quite ill and we had been expecting it for a while but it was still unexpected. She had been doing well, she was even making poppy cakes the day before. That night they wanted her to go back to hospital and she didn’t want to, I guess she got her wish, she didn’t go to hospital but instead died overnight in her own bed.

Anyways, so much for the relaxed trip, I rang Sean the guy I was buying the buggy off and to be fair, he took the morning off work so that we could collect the buggy early. We got the buggy into the van, I didn’t even look at half the stuff, paid the man and we where off.

Next stop was Mel Hubbard’s, i had ordered side pods for the buggy off him but unfortunately he didn’t get a chance to make them due to a family commitment he had. But being the buggy guy he sold me a set of purple metalflake ones he had lying around. It doesn’t bother me, I’ll be painting them anyways.

One last stop before we could head for the Ferry. Flatlands Engineering here we come. I wanted to get some of the more difficult things from Flatlands, they have a good reputation and the stuff looks well make. Unfortunately funds won’t allow me to buy everything I wanted but I got the essentials. I also got the opportunity to see some of the buggies they have built and get some ideas for my own.

Very Nice!!

After that is was a run to the ferry, overnight on the ferry and back to Galway the following morning. After a few hours sleep it was down to Ennis to see Nannie Curley in the funeral home.