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  • Oneputt
    Oneputt Club Member Posts: 9,146 ✭✭✭
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    edited May 2017 #5042

    Off on my solo trip to North Norfolk on Wednesday for 5 days then a week on Thursday we are off on our trip to Wales.  Good trips to all who are away or going away.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited May 2017 #5043

    Another beautiful sunny day after early mist which soon broke up. Clouds came over during the late afternoon but soon pass over and now the skies mostly clear and turning pink. Out for a 2 hr walk up onto Conic Hill, above Loch Lomond, from the site after breakfast. Lazy afternoon, enjoying the sunshine & getting ready for our move on to the CC's Clachan site at Killin.

  • milliehull
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    edited May 2017 #5044

    Neither does Mr H. laughing

  • Tammygirl
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    edited May 2017 #5045

    Neither does Mr TG laughing

  • Tammygirl
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    edited May 2017 #5046

    Woke to a misty morning but at least it was dry. Managed to find Carrefour open this morning most unusual but welcome as we needed fresh milk. Good drive down to Orange, arrived at 2.30pm, site owner not around but sign on door said " chose pitch and see me later" its a 'new' to Acsi camping card site 15 euro, nice and quiet with good big pitches, will do nicely for tonight and may return later for a longer stay to have a look around the area. Off to the Med coast tomorrow heading for La Croix-Valmer area first then we may go further East. Lots of Dutch out and about everywhere the Netherlands must be empty laughing

    Hope everyone has a good time where ever they are.

    Bakers, sorry to hear your still not feeling great, hope it gets better soon, good news on NZ trip

    H&T, hope the new van arrives soon and you can get away and try it out, hope you have some breaks planned.

    MillieH have a good time in Norfolk and that it does stay dry for you.

  • redface
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    edited May 2017 #5047

    So I said to MOH "if you are such an expert then I can safely leave that job to you then?".

    Haven't hung the washing out since.

  • DSB
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    edited May 2017 #5048

    Lovely day today, but a bit of an odd week.  We were away in the caravan over the MayDay weekend and due to return home on Tuesday.  Unfortunately we got the caravan key stuck in the lock on Monday.  We eventually got it out, but the found we couldn't unlock the caravan from the outside with a key.  Raymond James managed to get us a new lock for Wednesday afternoon, but we had to stay on site an extra night as we couldn't risk taking the caravan back to storeage and leave the door unlocked.

    We had our usual round of end of week and weekend commitments, plus a concert on Saturday night.  Back from visiting MIL this afternoon.  Time to open a bottle of Prossecco with a take away pizza tonight (Malcolm would be proud of us!  😂)

    Fairly busy week coming up this week too.

    Not been on CT much this week, so best wishes to all.  Hope I've not missed much.

    David

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited May 2017 #5049

    We visited Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, NT and had a picnic lunch in the picnic area there. We didn't visit Batemans because we realised we'd visited it before this year. 

    The gardens and estate were much larger than we expected and took up our whole day so that there was no time left to visit anywhere else but I'll remember to visit Lewes and Virginia Wolfe's property next time.

    It's now Monday morning and so we'll be hitching up to get back to Worthing. 

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited May 2017 #5050

    Seems like a nice meal, David. There seem to be a huge number of Pizza takeaways in Worthing. Apart from Pizza Hut, there's Dominos, Texas Pizza and various other lesser known takeaways that do pizzas and other dishes too. On Thursday my employers gave me a free pizza for doing an eight hour shift. I was allowed to choose, so I chose a meat feast!

     

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited May 2017 #5051

    Have a nice time, IanH and I hope the weather stays good. Plenty to see and do there. I remember our last visit to the Lake District in 2015. 

  • triky auto
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    edited May 2017 #5052

    Blowing a Northerly 'hooley' again with grey low clouds,here in Kent.Taking the " Concorde" in for engine service today .Then ,,,,don't know what ,depends on the time factor .undecided.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited May 2017 #5053

    It's back to work for me this evening. I've now got my shift pattern for the rest of this week. Monday 18:00 to 23:00, Tuesday day off, Wednesday 18:00 to 22:00, Thursday day off, Friday 18:00 to 22:00, Saturday 18:00 to 21:00, Sunday day off.

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2017 #5054

    Another bright sunny day. We're gearing ourselves up for silaging. Maybe later this week.

    Meanwhile the bluebells in our wood are at their peak. It's not all grass and cows - we have an ancient oak wood.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited May 2017 #5055

    With three days off this week, I think WWT might be getting a little bit more of our patronage. Some of the ducklings and goslings will have grown since we last visited. However, we haven't yet seen any cygnets.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited May 2017 #5056

    We've just finished a light breakfast of tea and cereal as it's now time to pack up the caravan and get hitched ready for our journey to Northbrook Farm CMC site. It's a bit grey and overcast but at least it's not raining which makes it a lot easier.

  • milliehull
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    edited May 2017 #5057

    That's beautiful Goldie.

  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2017 #5058

    Great pic Goldie, just haven't had anytime to visit any of our local spots this year.  Anyone in North Norfolk both Sheringham Park and the woodland surrounding Blickling Hall are usually putting on stunning displays

  • brue
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    edited May 2017 #5059

    The bluebells have been good this year, still time to catch them. smile

  • moulesy
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    edited May 2017 #5060

    I had been meaning to show some pictures from our visit to Glendurgan Gardens in Mawnan Smith last week (but couldn't just remember how to do it - so here's hoping this works! wink )

  • moulesy
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    edited May 2017 #5061

    Now I've remembered how to do it, here are some more from Glendurgan and Trebah just down the road. smile

  • Bakers2
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    edited May 2017 #5062

    Now you're all showing off 😲😲. Beautiful photos.

    Thanks for all your good wishes, not so wobbly so far this morning fingers crossed it lasts. We'll be in NZ for new year Christmas at home, prices are silly before! Even flying Christmas day only saved £100 between us on the price we've got. Back after granddaughter 4th birthday. We've already told youngest granddaughter we won't be there for hers, and she's not had her first birthday yet! as 3 winters in one year isn't the same as 3 summers. So we'll celebrate her 2nd too.

    Waiting at dentist for hubby who's crown has come off 😲 didn't stop him eating wine gums! Then off to garden centre to suss out a birthday present for a friend hoping I'll find something as I've no other ideas. 

    Jolly chilly wind here again and very grey again. Did get the sun break through for a couple of hours yesterday and it was so nice. This grey stuff feels oppressive 🙁. But hey ho it's what we've got.

  • milliehull
    milliehull Forum Participant Posts: 4,764 ✭✭✭
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    edited May 2017 #5063

    Wow!!!!

  • milliehull
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    edited May 2017 #5064

    I could send you the instructions that you sent to me a while ago laughing

  • KjellNN
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    edited May 2017 #5065

    Arrived yesterday in the Black Forest area, a chilly 9.6 degrees here right now, and rather overcast, though the rain has stopped meantime.

    More wet than dry days in the last week, so not so good.  Almost 4 weeks since we left home now.  In the next day or two, we need to decide whether to continue south into Switzerland and Italy, or go east towards southern Germany and Austria.

    The site here has metered EHU, anything over 4kwh per day costs 60 cents per kwh, so having filled our bottles on the way here, we are running HW and heating on gas only.  Fridge, kettle and toaster plus TV and lights will easily use up our daily 4kwh.  We left home with one full and one almost empty bottle and have so far filled just over 24 litres, which is about 12kg.  Glad we have a refillable system!

    A few problems with the van and equipment.........our 9 year old Fiamma canopy has started parting company with the roller, the Alde system seems to have an intermittent leak, and the alarm system has gone crazy!

  • Bakers2
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    edited May 2017 #5066

    Nice to hear from you KjellNN although it sounds like things aren't going quite as you'd like. Knowing how practical you are I'm sure you'll have it sussed very soon. You're certainly not missing real warmth here. Hasn't your 4 weeks gone quickly?

  • KjellNN
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    edited May 2017 #5067

    We have been to a "Bauhaus" store and purchased repair tape and patched up the Fiamma, but not yet tested whether it will hold together. We may decide just to dump the whole thing, the bag with the sides and front take up a lot of room in the car and we need to make space for an additional passenger when we return to Amsterdam.  Without an awning to unload stuff into, we will struggle to do that.

    The roof fabric has a bad case of old age, the sides and front are OK, but I have no idea whether we can buy a new roof only that will fit with the zips on the other pieces.

    The Alde is losing fluid, I suspected the auto vent on the boiler as we had trouble with it before,but last night OH found a damp patch on the bathroom carpet, and there seems to have been a small leak under the bed near the boiler.  So many pipes and wires and partitions under there, difficult to see what is going on.

  • KjellNN
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    edited May 2017 #5068

    DD has been keeping in touch, there has been some lovely weather at home recently apparently!

     

  • KjellNN
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    edited May 2017 #5069

    Last week I had commented to OH that the alarm battery had never been replaced since new, and then the whole thing went crazy on Friday evening.

     To stop it going off I had to unscrew the whole thing and remove the battery, it isn't half loud when you have your head under the seat right next to it, took ages for my ears to recover!

    I don't think the neighbours were too pleased either.

    Battery was totally gone, so will need to source a new one.

    On the plus side, the new car is going very well.  We are 717 metres above sea level here, on the way here we were up at 945 metres, with some big hairpins and some 15% gradients, and it sailed through with no problem.  Have had it up to the legal 130kph solo on the motorways here and you really do not feel the speed.

    Called into a VW dealership here last week to purchase the required sticker for restricted town access, and they provided it without charge!

     

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited May 2017 #5070

    We've arrived back at Northbrook Farm CMC site and have got settled back into our seasonal pitch. We've got the picnic table and relaxer set up outside but there's a cold wind blowing, so I didn't sit out for too long! We've just had lunch and now a cup of tea.

     

  • DSB
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    edited May 2017 #5071

    When we have Pizza takeaway we usually go for Dominos these days.  They certainly aren't the cheapest, but we've always been pleased wit the food...... like the thin and crispy bases!  😂 

    David