The best ice cream in the World!!

A memory from our holiday this year. Anyone local to the West Country is probably familiar with the name 'Hocking', a family run ice cream business. Their ice cream really is the best!

A little piece of history (if you're interested):
The business was started in 1936 by Dave Hocking with one van, a 1928 Morris Cowley converted to an icecream van by a local firm of coachbuilders. They expanded when Dave (senior) was joined by his son Dave (junior) after the war, and together with other family members they gradually expanded and added sites and vans until today the business has 12 vans and is run by grandsons Geoff and Neil Hocking and great grandson Andrew.

As well as selling fabulous ice cream, they also sell these little die-cast models. I couldn't resist buying one as a reminder of our holiday, and it's sitting on the kitchen windowsill. I wanted to give it a bit of a dated, fifties feel...not sure if it's quite right, but hope you like it. :-)