Icecream..............I could do with one right now. We are sweltering in the UK at the moment. People think B and I should be used to this sort of heat and maybe for the first couple of years after coming to the UK we would have been but after 20 years we have acclimatised to the UK climate and feel it as much as others here.
My first pictures were taken when some South African friends were staying with us and we were in the Lake District when we came across an icecream van and bought a cone each. Lynette was proudly holding her cone aloft for this photograph when the inevitable happened.........
whoops............
We often stayed in a farm cottage in Lowick, near Bambergh, Northumberland and wandered around the lovely old farm and were fascinated by this old icecream van in one of their open sheds. We found out that one of the Forte Brothers was a friend of the present owner's father and asked if he could keep this van here and he then would take parts from it to keep other vans going. Poor van, it looks so unloved.
Then one day, whilst parked up above Scrimiston Beach near Berwick-on-Tweed an icecream van arrived and parked nearby. I just had to have one and to take a photographs. It wasn't till we got home that I realised that it was also a Forte Bros van.
This made me curious about the history of this company. I found the details below on the internet.
I've just found a picture of our favourite icecream that is sadly no longer available. We could not get them in Rhodesia or South Africa so it was always a treat to have them here. We were so sad to find they had been discontinued.
That's it for this week. Keep cool and ping free. Now to see what others have posted.
