We have been at the Briarfields Site now for one week, we would like have done a lot of sightseeing but this week it has mostly been about preparation visits and resting. The weather has been relatively good but a bit on the cold side. Gratefully the Briarfields site is surrounded by trees so the wind has been kept very much under control, well until today that is as it’s just been forecast gale force winds are on the way.
The site this weekend was invaded by a group of tent campers complete with shed loads of kids, but to be fair to them the kids have all been very well behaved and the group have organised themselves very well with organised games for the kids and their own marquee, I would go so far as to say they are a credit to other tent campers.
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| The Campers packing up |
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| Their marquee & BBQ |
The site has seen plenty of RV’s arriving this week some very old ones and one cracking brand new 40’ machine, now Kay and I are the type that will talk to anyone whether they live in a caravan, tent, Euro-van or RV. There is often a complaint by the owners of RV’s that the other groups ignore them, but some RV owners don’t help themselves when it comes to making friends. Example, two RV’s turned up on Friday and they parked on adjacent pitches door to door, out came one large awning to fill the gap between and then they erect a wind break across the gap effectively sealing themselves off from the rest of the camp.
This gave the impression of ‘this is our spot were friends and we don’t want visitors’, OK we all like our privacy but the body language this puts out can be quite off putting, I did think it would be nice to get to know them but now I’m not so sure.
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| Motor-homes & Caravans |
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| Motor-homes & Caravans |
Our preparation visits were to an Auto-gas centre near Stonehouses to see if they can fix the gas issue we have and to get the RV booked in for the LPG system to be serviced. We then made a trip up the road to Motorhome Medics to book the RV in for a general service. The reason we have done this now, even though the RV was serviced by the previous owner in December, is that it makes sense to get everything organised (that we have to do annually) in one location and for it to occur at this time of year. This means that when we return from Spain next March / April we can get the RV serviced, MOT’d and Taxed all at the same time at a location just off the main motorway and close to a site that will take RV’s.
This week I have also made contact with an old army friend (I know they get everywhere) who is helping me with one of my novels as an expert in police procedures. Sadly he’s not well at the moment so we hope to have a visit once he’s back on his feet. The novel is a murder mystery and the friend is a serving Investigation officer who previously served with the CID, so he’s the just right the person to tell me when I’m going wrong in my story lines.
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