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Re: Sandringham Estate Club Campsite has officially reopened!
Very impressive @Rowena !! Our favourite site for Christmas - I'd better do something about getting it booked!😀
Re: Disappearing Dustbins
Well said @KjellNN - I was going to say something similar but not along the lines of not being tactful - more about being downright insensitive! I struggle to walk very far, these days - and like you - when on a 'formal site', request a pitch close to a service point - or book a serviced pitch if we can get one. Ros has great difficulty in lifting her arms above shoulder height - so we both struggle.
I've made a few significant (and often expensive) changes to our van in the last couple of years to allow us to continue caravanning for a little longer - and I'm determined to carry on for as long as we are able because we enjoy it!
Whilst for the majority, I guess, centralised bins are probably not an issue but for others, they are - and perhaps there are one or two on here who ought to be a bit more understanding.
Whilst I didn't have these problems a couple of years ago - no one knows what's round the corner - so a bit more sensitivity would go a long way😊
Re: Disappearing Dustbins
We are still in favour of the central bin area with the larger bins, usually near the entrance, but those saying that if you cannot walk “ those extra few yards” then you should maybe not be caravanning or motorhoming, could be a bit more tactful !
Firstly, it is usually a lot further to go than a few yards, and unfortunately some of us suffer from arthritis and joints can be painful and make walking even a short distance very uncomfortable, even impossible. Waiting times for joint replacement can be very long, so we just have to carry on as best we can, and we still want to have holidays.
We can still do that as at present it is only my OH who has joint problems, plus we go off site frequently and taking the rubbish to the gate when we do so is not that onerous. We have by necessity adapted what we do to fit our situation.
As long as I can still walk far enough, and lift enough weight, to empty the toilet cassette we will continue caravanning. We now request a pitch close to the service point, which makes things easier.
We have mostly stopped using the silly little bin on the caravan door for rubbish, and have invested in 2 substantial folding bins, with good hinged lids, from Aldi, to use either in the awning, when the family are with us, or just one in the van when it is just us. These take pedal bin liners, so big enough for 5-7 days, and could be left outside if necessary.
One is for recycling which is separated afterwards where necessary, the other for residual waste. The liner used to take away the recycling then becomes the new liner for the residual waste bin. When just the 2 of us, the recycling goes in the little caravan door bin, and the main waste bin sits in an otherwise unused corner of the van.
Works well and means that trips to the big bins are infrequent.
KjellNN
Re: Battery Offers
Renolgy 200APH LiFePO4 arrived this morning, well packed and in good order. I will fit it when time and weather allows.
peedee
peedee
Re: What are you all up to
Great pictures @DSB, @nelliethehooker and @Wherenext. You all look as though you are having/have had such wonderful trips away and visited some lovely places. We are feeling very disappointed today as we were supposed to be meeting up with some very dear friends that we haven't seen for ages at Easton Walled Gardens but after a long telephone conversation last night decided that it would be unwise given the high temperatures forecast (and also our ages 😕) so will hopefully re-convene some other time. We were so looking forward to it and I had hoped to post some lovely photos on here. We are now going to make an early dash to Waitrose to do our supermarket shop before it gets too hot.
We had a lovely spell of rain last Sunday, it was most refreshing and the garden loved it. We had a very enjoyable meal out with friends for Sunday lunch and the friend that I mentioned that is retiring (aged 84) from teaching special needs children is now going to volunteer to teach adults to read and write. There is no stopping her. She had been threatening to retire for some years and then kept going back. Her husband said she has done more farewell tours than Frank Sinatra!
@Takethedogalong The roses that we have bought are Supertrooper (a floribunda) and Aphrodite (a hybrid tea) and our daughter gave OH for his birthday My Lovely Dad (also a hybrid tea). Aphrodite is particularly lovely. We might buy another floribunda at some point to even things up.
Other than that not a lot to report. I have been watering the garden and doing a bit of gardening in the evenings (mostly dead heading) when the weather is cooler. We have seen more butterflies and bees in our garden than we have seen for many years. I did my usual stint on the Cathedral shop (nice and cool in there) when it was surprisingly busy.
Keep cool everyone and drink plenty of fluids.
Re: Disappearing Dustbins
can’t see a problem with the change , if you’re fit enough to caravan ,you’re fit enough to take a bag of rubbish to the recycling point
Or put it in your car and drive there
huskydog
Re: What are you all up to
Hope you got home from your trip in the relative cool this evening @Wherenext
We missed a couple of hour's sleep last night, as one of the two dogs in the unit behind us, and which were sleeping in their car, started barking at midnight, which startled us awake, and that continued for about 30 mins, and of course It then took a while for us to get back to sleep. Needless to say words were spoken to their owner in the morning!!
It has been a scorcher here too, too hot really for both OH and Flyte, who could not settle inside or out, even in the shade. We did take a shortish walk mid morning and then I did another by myself during the afternoon, across to Middleton and down the lengthy of Bradford Dale again. The locals were taking full advantage of the deepest pool, close to Youlgreave, to cool off. It has now cooled down quite a bit and it is very pleasant now sat outside as I type this onehanded, with a glass of chilled beer in the other.
Middleton Hall, built in 1824 by Thomas Bateman, who rebuilt the entire village. (The best photo I could get of the building)
Re: Photo of our unit on site!
ThIs is our caravan on our pitch at the C&CC's Bakewell site, with Flyte in the middle of having his lunch.
Re: What are you all up to
@DSB I can see our favourite beach on your third photo🤩 Porth Kidney, the other side of the River Hayle. It’s a very dog friendly beach, but you do have a bit of a stroll to get there, so it seldom gets as busy as the Godrevy side. If you get there early, there’s usually parking by Lelant Church, St Uny. The church is very old, and very lovely, and there are one or two nice pubs in Lelant. A nice drive round the back of the village as well, you end up at Lelant Saltings, and can sit on the little station platform and watch for some interesting bird life, always Little Egrets down there. Have you explored the old mining area around Botallack? Botallack Manor Farmhouse was “Nampara” in the original Poldark series, some good birdwatching around there as well.
Re: What are you all up to
Warm here in Cornwall today too @Takethedogalong. Does that look like a wine glass as well, @Wherenext ? 🙂
David
DSB