Almost Gone!

Sunday, 07 December 2008

We should be on our way the Seefeld by now, but no! we are still in Warwick. Here’s the story since last I wrote.

We finally picked up Floozie around the 18th of November and headed down towards Warwick. It was a long long drive, during the first hour of which, a truck threw a stone up into the windscreen. DOH! To add insult to terminal injury (for the windscreen) the damage was right in my line of vision. After nine hours of driving, my squint was more or less permanent! It was just like piloting a fighter airplane with the cross-hair sights. Tally Ho chaps, Mondeo at twelve o’clock! Anyhow, we got to Harbury Fields and got set up and called out the glass repair company. Terminal, they said. So we had a choice to make; do we risk it and go and hope the screen doesn’t split in the cold weather or do we sit tight and wait for the glass to come through? We decided to wait- we were told a few days ago that it would be ten days getting here. Cutting it fine and we’d have a mad rush down to Seefeld afterwards, but it means that we don’t have to worry about the glass going. A sensible move. Right now, we neither of us have the stomach to have to worry about such things. Having had all the worry taken out of the bus after her overhaul, we don’t need it replacing with something else; not yet anyway!

We’ve not been idle whilst we have been here – oh no! Amanda has embarked on her new venture – jewellery making. The idea being that we can sell it on the foreign markets during the summer. I think she’s got a good eye for design (gets it from her late Aunt) but then I’m biased. The proof will be in the sales we have next year. I have yet to decide what course I will pursue; I’m thinking contemporary cards combined with photography. We both felt that we wanted to get creative. It’s something we both used to love being and somehow we have lost our way. Already we have the satisfation of putting things together and it’ll be icing on the cake if we could make our pitch fees each week. Or a meal. Anything!! It would be great to have a little stall on a French market and be involved. FUN!

I’ve been attending to Floozie2. I have lagged all the pipe work so that she can operate in colder temperatures. We have a number of condensation issues that I’m trying to address. The wet mattress has been sorted with laths to allow air under it – before hand it was just a solid board over a cold engine cover so the condensation was pretty bad. Not any more!

Thursday, 11 December 2008

Good news! The Screen will be fitted on Monday! Bad news, Amanda’s poorly with a cold like something. That time of year I guess. Hopefully then we’ll be off to Austria on the Wednesday. Yippee! Floozie2 is looking all festive with her fairy lights and tinsel and we’ve just bought the Christmas copy of the Radio Times, so it really does feel like Christmas now! Mince pies a-go-go. Did you know that to bring luck for the coming year you should eat a mince pie on each day of the twelve days leading up to Christmas. Learnt that at the pub quiz we went to this week (and came third!)

I’ll get this posted up as well as some photos from Scotland. Cheers for now, and just in case I don’t get the opportunity later, a very Merry Christmas to all and joyous New Year.