What are you all up to
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That would be impossible. I would lose my job. I can't deliver pizzas without a car!
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Yes, that certainly is a problem. When we go to the National and then on to Scotland, we'll have to leave the Smart car at Northbrook Farm and use the Shogun for towing as well as visiting places.
I need the Smart car for work though, because of the reduced cost of fuel and easier parking.
Also the Shogun is 10 years old and can no longer cope with the heavy usage of delivery driving.
When the Shogun clutch goes, it's a very costly job but it is an excellent tow car for the caravan.
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I could apply for social housing whereby they take into account that you need somewhere to park your caravan. However, even with subsidised housing, the cost of the rent plus council tax for a property with a driveway big enough for a 7.92 metre length caravan, would be phenomenal.
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Yes but that would be an added bill, surely! Also there would be the added inconvenience of extra time and travelling to load, pack and unpack. Far more convenient to park it outside your home.
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Just having a catch up on here.
Thanks for all your get well messages. Today is a definite improvement the vertigo/dizziness is much less, it's now been almost a week 😲. Hoping get to go for walk walk this afternoon and maybe a day out tomorrow if things continue this way. Hubby is brighter today too. Downside is that we'll have to do some chores 😉
Quite breezey here but reasonably warm for the last day of April.
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I used to use a storage site many years ago when I had a house in Rochester with no driveway. I remember having to drive for twenty minutes to get there every time I needed to get something from the caravan.
Also, going away for a weekend meant double packing and unpacking because you would have to pack from the house to the car and then again from the car to the caravan.
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Glad to learn that you're feeling better, Bakers2. It's breezy here too and it's started raining!
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Get well soon B2, not nice for you. Hope you manage a walk out.
We are having our first proper rain for weeks, we were getting into a drought situation. Strange for this area when we can also get into flooding. So just for once I'm very pleased to see rain and more tomorrow I hope, we really need some.
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Yes but rain is not so good for the usual caravanning chores of filling the Aquaroll, emptying waste, hitching and unhitching for travelling between sites etc. Didn't we get enough rain during the winter? Not to mention the car and caravan getting covered in mud when towing across a soggy field!
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Breezy day, no rain as yet, OH has been outside putting finishing touches to the window fitted yesterday, looks pretty good, and at least now we don't have to worry about the glass falling out!
Been for a walk round local park, home now catching up on here while OH is watching the f1.
Glad you are feeling a bit better Bakers2.
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Are we all invited Triky? We could have a CT pizza meet
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We had a good night, thanks Millie. Much wine consumed by all! We're off out for our meal tonight at the Cricketts pub at Acresford. If there's time when we get back we'll be doing another awning meeting...... 😂 😂
A bit windy here today though. The sun is out but cool in the breeze. Warm in the awning ...
David
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It's raining heavily now. I hope the field doesn't get too soggy. I need to be able to get off to work tonight and the Smart car doesn't have four wheel drive.
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If you were lucky enough to get some social housing you could sell the caravan and shogun retaining the smart car. No need for a long drive, which you wouldn't get anyway (latest build of social housing here is a step from the public footpath) money in your pocket from sales. Chance to do B&B holidays or similar on the proceeds. No twice monthly packing up and moving etc. Security for your wife who doesn't drive if you can no longer tow etc. I expect the waiting list is long so might be a good idea to enquire at least.
While you're waiting you could do as Bolero Boy suggests and get a motorhome but that's a lot of money to start with and may not, if you're lucky, be needed for very long.
With regard to the rain I'd park the smart car where it wouldn't matter. Out of curiosity how do you fit everything on your pitch? Caravan, awning, shogun and smart car.
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I park the Smart car in front of the Shogun. The Smart car is so small that it can easily fit in.
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As much as we enjoy our caravan there is no way we could ever think of living in it! I like four walls and a roof especially in bad weather, and the joy of a turning on a tap without thinking of the Aquaroll when we get home from a holiday - bliss!!! As one gets older and if you're unlucky perhaps infirm, surely it's sensible to try for something more secure, a touring caravan just isn't a suitable alternative for long term housing.
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I may eventually have to go on the housing list but I worry about the cost. So I keep postponing it. The thought of having to pay £650 a month for a one bedroom flat with bills on top is not very attractive.
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With club site fees at around £20 per night, you are almost paying that already.
Not wishing to pry into your finances, but a CL at £12p.n, say, still £360 per month.
Seems that caravanning remains attractive.
Good luck with whatever you decide on.
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Malcolm.......have you ever considered the option of taking the advice offered to you repeatedly, rather than bleating on about your misfortune?
Just a thought.
Sorry if this offends, but you really are your own worst enemy.......and you put your wife through an awful lot, needlessly.
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I think that you are being optimistic, here in Devon there is virtually no social housing. My daughter is paying a fortune for private rented accommodation, they have three children and have been on the list for 9 years. Told that unless actually homeless then no chance.
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