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Notebook discovery.

Added 2025-07-17 13:47:39 +0000 UTC

Yesterday I did a much needed admin day and clearing out of paperwork.

As I pulled 1 binder out the cupboard this little red booklet fell out with it. It’d been so long I almost forgot what it was.

This was my in-pocket notebook that lived on me during the build of Amber.

I’d scribble measurements, parts lists, sketches & doodles, motivational helping hands… it logged basically all day-to-day info and ideas about the build as my memory has never been the best.

Most of it is nonsense in my 5 year old’s hand writing, but here are a few pages of more recognisable bits.

I always used to say this van was a 1 year “throwaway” van and yet revisiting these notebooks would suggest that a little too much detail and effort was put in right at the very beginning for that to really be the case.

Maybe I subconsciously decided that this knackered tin can would be around for a little longer?

A whopping 8 years ago. 😳

Some people have had more previous vans than I have of these notebooks for 1 build! 🤣

It’s so strange looking back at these scribbles. It was such a shit time in my life, yet the thing I was pouring all my time and effort into building was a few months away from changing that forever.