Nessun Dorma on Broadway
No it's not Puccini's aria from Turandot being sung in Manhattan, it was a case of Nessun Dorma (Nobody shall sleep) at Broadway club site this morning. Work started on the new motorhome drain right next to our pitch (87) at 8 am: tarmac being dug up and a big hole being dug meant no lie-in!
We had thought that the site renovation work was far enough away not to be a problem; however, the drain installation had moved up the schedule due to the weather.
The work continues apace and this afternoon the angle-grinder is cutting the pipes. They could be finished soon at the rate they're going.
We were offered the opportunity to move pitch, but we're toughing it out. It's given us something interesting to watch on a dreich afternoon.
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We were on the Cheddar site when they were tarmacing all the site roads. Fascination to watch but perhaps a bit quieter than digging a drain!!
Will look forward to a picture of the finished motorhome wastepoint in a day or two if you are still there.
David
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we are going to Broadway on Thursday and im sure the improvements will be worth it...
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To be fair, must say that the digging didn't start to 8.30 (club rules, the foreman told me). The pipes are in place and the area back filled awaiting the grating and some tarmac.
No photo David as we're off to Warwick Racecourse site tomorrow for the town's Victorian Xmas evening. Hope Cath can make it up the hill!
Sorry to miss you BB and Kim.
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It could be worse. You could be a caravanner and reap no benefit.
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We left Broadway this morning, can agree chasncath, about the noise! We were on 97, above you, can just see our van on your picture. Yesterday rain stopped play early though!
Would have said hello had I realised you were there. Enjoy the rest of your stay, hope you can get a lie-in tomorrow!
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Chas, sorry to have missed you (and Ina, and IanH there very recently I recall?) but will catch you both sometime for sure.
purely by coincidence, Mary and Tony (and Oska) from Wales are coming over on Friday so will catch them for coffee......we are heading out to Spain with them mid January.
hope Cath will be like Kate Bush......running up that hill
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So if the new MH drain cover can be fitted in a matter of a day or so why is it going to take 20 years to complete them all I wonder??
Doesn't make a lot of sense does it! One could understand a delay at a particular site if there was going to be a major upgrade in the next two years but other wise why not just bite the bullet and get on with it. If the Club applied themselves it could
be done over a five year period.David
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No it's not Puccini's aria from Turandot being sung in Manhattan, it was a case of Nessun Dorma (Nobody shall sleep) at Broadway club site this morning. Work started on the new motorhome drain right next to our pitch (87) at 8 am: tarmac being dug up and
a big hole being dug meant no lie-in!
We had thought that the site renovation work was far enough away not to be a problem; however, the drain installation had moved up the schedule due to the weather.
The work continues apace and this afternoon the angle-grinder is cutting the pipes. They could be finished soon at the rate they're going.
We were offered the opportunity to move pitch, but we're toughing it out. It's given us something interesting to watch on a dreich afternoon.Good job it wasn't Ride of the Valkyries!
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My OH reckoned I would always drive faster when that was on the car radio.
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Sorry not to have met, InaD. We've met a few fellow CT contributors on our travels, but not as many as we first thought we would. We met Boleroboy and Mrs BB on the Cote d'Azur!
We've met David Klyne in France last year, except we didn't realise it at the time....until we were on the next pitch at Bearsted on our way home the same holiday!
This year we met JimE, also in the south of France. He mentioned that he'd met you both, in Spain if I remember rightly.
Hope Cath managed the hill at Warwik.
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My OH reckoned I would always drive faster when that was on the car radio.
I was once trying to sleep off a very serious hangover, in the luxurious confines of a Westerly Centaur forepeak, when a fishing boat motored past Poole Town Quay at 0500 with it jacked up to eleven on the deck PA! A case of "if I'm up, you're up"
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Meatloafs 'Bat Out Hell' always had the drive faster effect. Could make it from the Hand & Flowers in Henley on Thames to the Crown in Marlow before it finished
A dear departed friend, Martyn 'Bush' Hedges used to warm up to it on a walkman before a slalom race. Must have worked as he was selected to be GB Team Captain for the '92 Barcelona Olympics, but was killed a few weeks before.
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Have to say I have not heard the word dreich in a long time. Hope the weather is better for your remaining time away
We travelled the 28 miles up the road to Warwick and arrived in wonderful sunshine!
We can see, but can't hear, a JCB working on the racetrack about half a mile away.
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we're now sited at the NE eand of the sote, so a ltlle way away from the works and quiet at the moment....might do a recce later...
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Those of you at home wishing to recreate the ambience of the Broadway works ensemble should turn on the hoover, operate your kitchen blender in short bursts, while chanting this short refrain:
Digger digger digger, donk donk donk
Digger donk, digger donk
Digger digger digger, donk donk donk!
p.s made that up for our grandsons
P.p.s Cath made it up the hill this morning!
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