Getting to know the RV.......

It's been a very busy few days since our last post. We've had my brother Ken and his wife, my youngest sister Win and her husband both visit us on Wednesday and Thursday. Then on Friday night Samantha our eldest daughter came up from Wales to stay two nights with the grandson.
So it has been an interesting time explaining how things work and all wanted to know how we were surviving in our new abode.

Rhys in the driving seat

On Friday night we started to panic as our eldest and grandson were very late turning up. Eventually after wandering all over Birmingham, they discovered that Sat Nav's should be listened too with an open mind and that a backup with a road map is essential.

Rhys & Bamps

Ohh Chocolate

We all visited Cadbury's world in Birmingham on Saturday, getting there was not too stressful but finding our way out again well let's say that this time I fell foul of the dreaded Sat Nav's idiosyncratic behavior. The Grandson loved the day out saying that all his dreams had come true (at first) and then afterwards saying he never wanted to see chocolate ever again... it lasted eight hours!!!!

This week electric has been a bit of a hit and miss on the site for some reason, our first week everything worked fine then the main plug board (where we are connected to the site) kept tripping, no matter what we switched off.
Was it the kettle ? was it the Microwave? was it the electric blow air heater? We switched each one off then back on to test, we finally came to the solution that either we're on  10amp socket rather than a 16amp or that with all the extra weekend campers now on site that the whole system here is under stress as we've found out that others campers are suffering from this problem as well.

The new showers are progressing so lets hope they are finished soon as one shower which also contains the only toilet is totally inadequate for the site.

We are getting plenty of experience in moving the RV to the Dump point (Waste dump) to connect the mascerator and dump the waste then back up to connect the fresh water and fill up the 56 Gallon tank.

One interesting point to mention for all those who use macerators is that it's imperative that you and your other half get signals organised beforehand.
It was a bit of a shock when sticking the open end down the sewer, Kay decided to turn on the switch and Poo shot out of the damn thing at a rate of knots. So standing there with unmentionable bits of chewed up Poo and toilet paper doesn't look or smell good on corduroy trousers.

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