The Bicycle repair man

On Saturday our eldest daughter Samantha and our grandson paid us a visit for the weekend to celebrate father’s day armed with bottles of wine, cards and chocolates. Well my daughter loves red wine and my grandson loves chocolates, get the idea?

Our grandson Rhys really enjoys his visits with us, he usually arrives with his bike in the boot of the car and this gives him the freedom on a secured site to go roaming wherever he wants and so after I had accompanied him on the cycle around the whole of the site to show him how far he could wander, he was free to explore it on his own.

Great you may think, but as I sat to watch the TV it was ‘Bamp’s the chains off, Bamp’s the breaks need fixing, Bamp’s the seat rocks, and so on and so on, in the end I just left the tool box at the ready. 

I have really missed the little Munchkin though this weekend I think I’d become his personal bicycle repair man. 

He will be coming to stay for a week soon so I had better make sure I have some cycle spares in.

By the time it came for them to head back home the wine had diminished and the chocolates had disappeared so they must have had a good break. So now it’s back to swimming and walking, we did manage to get a swim in but the weather is still too wild and wet to get out and about.

We had become friends with a fellow RV’r over the past few days that turned up next to us in an R-Vision Trail-Air. It’s the same make as ours but a much more up market version of it with all the whistle’s and bells. The owner was Tony James the owner of Luxury Leisure Trailers www.luxuryleisuretrailers.co.uk

Tony sells Fifth wheel Trailers and this RV was one he was selling, he and his partner Chris were very friendly and we spent lots of time drinking tea, chatting about RV’s and sites in Spain where he has a considerable amount of knowledge.

By this morning we were back on our own in an empty RV area ready for the next crowd to arrive on Friday the site being mostly empty in the week which is great for us as we get the pool very much to ourselves where it’s usually full at the weekends.

Why is it that web sites still give you the location and opening times of buildings that no longer exist? Today we went in search of a B&Q in Weston as I’ve had an idea of how to stop the security hooks on the trailer that holds the car in place marking the alloy wheels. After passing the place that the Sat Nav announced ‘you have arrived’ we were met with no sign of a B&Q anywhere.

So we ended up getting what I needed from another supplier and on the return we decided to stop off for a light jacket potato lunch at a garden centre. Oh dear it was half price meals for over 60’s. Needless to say after a big plate of fish-n-chips and mushy peas followed by toffee apple pie and apple struddle we were to full to go swimming.

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