Our Bob Is An Awesome Bob!

After last week’s Photosynth effort Murph came along with his snazzy new camera and took 300+ shots of Bob. We fed them into the Photosynth software and…a pretty good effort! I particularly like the button which shows how the software has created an overhead 3D rendering of the area from the inputted photos, so in this case you can make out Bob, the skip, the fence/gate and even bit of next door’s garden. Cool!

I might do an inside-Bob one of these in the future…

We’ve been Bob owners for exactly a year.

This afternoon I thought of two things:

Sitting by the side of the road exactly a year ago waiting for the RAC to arrive for what was to be the first of many times, just hours after picking her up from the garage we bought her from and the feeling we had when we returned from our successful holidays in the summer (photos & details still pending here…).

Overall I don’t quite regret buying her!

Here’s to a much improved second-half of year 1 and a more consistently good year 2!

A not entirely successful 360 view of Bob on the day before our first anniversary of ownership!

In fact, it’s about a 60 degree view of her because I couldn’t get around the sides properly to take enough pictures. Soon! To see all the pictures I took click on the 9-dot button at the bottom.

A while back I made this blog unavailable to view without a login. I’m not sure why but perhaps I felt that I wanted a little more privacy for Bob. And us. It’s going to back now. For the foreseeable future anyway.

With the site ‘locked away’ I haven’t bothered to visit it myself and the last update is from early August when I promised photos and news from our summer adventures. I’ll see if, three months on, I can summon the enthusiasm for a back-dated post soon.

In the meantime Bob is at VW Bullibarn / Superbeetles having a new ignition barrel fitted and, tomorrow, her first MOT under our ownership. I await the news with baited breath and credit card quivering. On a positive note though they said that the gearchange I’d sorted was as good as they could have done and so there was no need for any pre-winter adjustment. Cool.

I’ve SORNed her for the winter and a Just Kampers cover will be soon, postage strikes permitting, be strapped in place for the duration. There are various jobs that need doing, from working on that passenger door lock some more to making sure the rear window rubber stays in when you open the hatch to fitting a leisure battery – but winter provides time.

I’m looking forward to next year in Bob. Now we’ve got her fundamentally sorted it should just be regular maintenance and the odd problem to sort and we can enjoy driving her more than we were able to during much of 2009.