Good Days..... Bad Days

Well one day it's all doom and gloom, the next things happen so fast your feet don't touch the ground. Yesterday we met up with the nice couple from Bedfordshire who have purchased our caravan at the storage yard where our RV is also stored and helped them hook up the caravan for their return home.
In the rush we forgot to turn off the tracker and half an hour later my mobile went off with a message that my caravan was being stolen. I then returned the call informing them of the situation and sent a message to the new owner to stop and turn off the tracker which it turned out he had managed to do in the meantime as I had visions of them being chased down the road by several police cars.

We had to collect the keys for the yard from the yards owners to open up and on returning them asked him if I could hook up the RV to their electrics in order to keep the batteries topped up which he agreed. While in conversation I mentioned that I was now selling my 4 X 4 as without the caravan there would be no need for such a large car as I had small Toyota on order as a toad (towed car) for the RV.
He immediately made me an offer on the 4 X 4 that I accepted, having planned to sell it to carbuyerswales the following week anyway. As I said something's happen so fast your feet don't touch.

After we popped over to Swansea to visit an old work colleague (get well Geoff and keep your chin up) and then it was back to organising and planning.

So this morning its been up and out early to get an insurance cover note over to the Toyota garage for the new car and to get the last of our items not required in the RV into our storage container.

On our return we were greeted with the sad news that my son-in-law Gav's father is very ill and that he's had to rush off up to Scotland. We will keep our fingers crossed for his fathers recovery and for Gav's safe journey as we couldn't wish for a nicer son-in-law.

For anyone planning to do something on the same lines that we are, please be aware that somethings go to plan but you can bet your bottom dollar a spanner will jam the works at some point.
You try to plan for all eventualities but it is never that simple, we have had moments where we have thought 'god this is turning into a nightmare not a dream.' But you have to soldier on keeping your eyes focused on what you want to achieve and hopefully we will look back later in the summer and have a laugh at our panic days.
Our eldest daughter has already booked the grandson in for his Easter and summer holidays so now its down to planning where we will be and are there any sites we can stay that will be fun for a little seven year old.


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