Variety is the Spice of Life…

Well it feels like we’ve been all ’round the place lately, from ceiling, to floor, rearrange the furniture and then back to the ceiling…šŸ› Our little pile of pallets has dwindled away to almost nothing…šŸ› The back section of ceiling is complete (mostly) and we had to remove the seats at the front to get the last […]

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The Floor | BEFORE > DURING > AFTER

Ok so we created some anticipation and like most little projects there was a little more involved than we anticipated…. . šŸšpull up the old floor.šŸšpull up the smelly leather we found underneath.šŸšgrind off the rivets.šŸšgrind off the angle that the old seats bolted to.šŸšgrind off the angle above the windows (not necessary for the

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A Hundred Degrees in the Shade…

With this almost 40Ā°c again this weekend, we borrowed some more shade fromĀ @entirefireĀ , and whileĀ @michelle_evesĀ was busy trimming some more ceiling lining to length,Ā @chris.eves.ptĀ was inside the bus continuing what we started in the evenings during the week. The ceiling is well underway with a decent batch of pallet-boards trimmed and machined ready for painting, so while

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Multi-tasking Time!

Was a multi-tasking weekend in theĀ @magickandmarathonsĀ camp šŸ˜. Chris was busy removing some rust from a couple of patches on the roof (and making a right mess), getting ready to put some new patches in and seal it all up ready for painting so we can start getting ready for solar panels. Huge thanks to the

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We Have a CEILING!!

Lately it feels like we’ve been taking the windy road to progress, but it’s been such an awesome week – re-fitting the exhaust manifold and she drives like a dream with no ‘farty’ noise going up hills anymore. Not to mention, that even after the thicknesser (to machine the pallets) threw a blade out, we

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6 Cylinders = 6 manifold gaskets = 12 manifold bolts #whatswrongwiththispicture

Chris has been busy playing mechanic while Michelle and the kids have been painting the first batch of ceiling boards. The plan is to have bed/s in so we can wake up in the bus Christmas morning after cruising looking atĀ Christmas lights I’m pleased to report that the three perpetrators have been escorted from the

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Pallet Time!

One of the big drivers for us to move to #buslife is to minimalise our lifestyle and our earth footprint. So it’s really important to us during our build to find materials and way’s of building that involve as much re-use, re-purposing, re-cycling and up-cycling – so of course – PALLET’S!!! We haven’t paid for

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Air Con Removal…

This weekends job is to get the air con off the rood and the pipework out of the ceiling space so we get on with the inside work…. After having a great morning making lots of progress on Sunday pulling out the a/c pipework, cabling and pulling the components out, the afternoon was all struggletown

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Mind your Bus-iness…

We’ve had a reasonably busy couple of weeks, what with deciding what to tackle next, a little bit of work, driving practise, GETTING MY LICENSE!!, getting a mechanical check, and a bit of recreation….. So we took the bus down to Diesel Torque – a heavy diesel mechanic (also a friend of the family –

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#buslife

Between playing local chippy as well as our resident bus-converter, Chris has got his MR Class L plates so he can drive our new home (legally anyway..) and has had a couple of trips out and about driving the bus on trips to Bunnings and to collect pallets etc. etc.Looking forward to getting his license

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