The trailer

Having changed the car from the Beverley Hillbillies wagon to an Alfa Romeo we would that we couldn't transport as much as we used to. In fact, something that we moved a few weeks ago that needed moving again, is going to have to wait as it won't fit in this car.

So........ never missing an opportunity to go to the tip and look around the shop, we happened to time it with there being a frame for a trailer which we bought for £10. We had no way of getting it home so we had to get our friend with a van to pick it up for us and after another £10, the trailer has so far cost us £20.



We are hoping that apart from getting a towbar on the car, the cost won't be much more than that.

When we had to get all the furniture out of the house following the great flood, our bed wouldn't fit out of the room without taking it apart. We bought a new Hypnos bed at the Grand Designs show so the base was obsolete but we didn't like to get rid of it. Now we are glad that we didn't as the wood from the surround has made the base of the trailer, the slats for the base are the sides and the headboard will make the ends.

It has reasonable tyres and has the lighting board so the only other cost should be, possibly new inner tubes, lighting covers (as one has a crack) and a number plate.

This is the big project for next week so watch this space for it in action.

p.s. I will need to make a cover and have some particularly pretty floral material but I am not sure Nick will approve.