What have I done?!?!?

By Simon Luard

That's not a cry of anguish... i just cant remember what I've been doing for the last few weeks.

Let me think.

Jesus is running!! She sounds pretty good and seems in good order though I admit to knowing very little about old French vehicles - maybe she'll blow up tomorrow! The guy who fixed her has been quality.. fixing her up pretty cheap, giving advice on painting Jesu and generally being a good bloke.

So I tried to insure her the other day... you need to do that before you register a foreign vehicle in the UK. I've never had my own policy and have a massive ugly blemish on my driving licence (young and foolish). First quote i got was for £2600 quid! No sympathy. Next one told me £1200. Nice. Shopped around a little more and am now insured fully comp for £800. Happy.

All sorts of other stuff happening but I've talked it through with so many people and thought stuff over in my own head that it slightly hurts my brain now to think about it. 

I've decided on a name!

"Luardos"

My cousin called me the other night, slightly drunk, telling me that I HAD to call it "Dirty Sanchez".

This was him...

"Imagine.. you're with your mates, you see this van, you go over, get a fat steak burrito, eat it, go back to your mates - "I just got a dirty sanchez!". And they're all like "Wooah, I want one".  

God I would love to call it Dirty Sanchez. Make the meatiest tortilla wraps you ever saw and hand out free scratch and sniff tashes. I cant though. Am too scared.

It's been alot of fun so far and am still nowhere near being set up and running. Hard work as well - I've been working a 50 hour a week removals job and working on Luardos in the evenings and at weekends. Friends have been brilliant! Just hope that the end result is worth all the effort. 

 

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By Selina Barker on 16 January 2007 at 19:53

Hey Simon,

When is your first gig? March isn't it? Have you got an action plan in place to meet that deadline and have you been to any business advisors?

x Selina

ps was checking out all the foodstalls in Argentina and Brazil to absorb ideas for you and Fat Sanchez


By Simon Luard on 1 February 2007 at 00:29

Hello Barker! I thought i'd replied to you but obviously not... sorry! The March gig was actually not what i though it was - turns out that their food budget was tiny and I'd be struggling to be ready for then anyway. No bad thing that i cant do it. Been concentrating on getting in contact with festivals and collecting info for application forms. Had great news yesterday! A little festival in Hampshire called Blissfields want to have me along in early July. Also got two other gigs - both at H Van rallys! One is in Dorset in May and one's somewhere else a bit later on... cant remember. No action plan for me. I'm sure I would benefit from one though I think i'm doing alright timewise... alot of the paperwork side is done and the logo is almost there too. Van should be converted by the end of Feb. This leaves March and April to decorate inside (this is where you come in maybe..?) and out and to plan food logistics and do some sums. I'm 100% positive this is the wrong way round to do things but it's just the way it's happened. Not seen u for ages matey! Am going to see Petra this Sunday down Brick Lane (if the roadworks on her pitch are gone by then!). Come for a shot if you aint busy. Bye eee, Simon x

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