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Saturday 18 June 2011

Back on track

As far as we know the caravan is now in full working order. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet we managed to find a refurbished (i.e. sprayed blue) tie rod for the water heater. Henry put it all back together again and miraculously there were no bits left over. So he reconnected the water pump and switched on. Oops! still a leak (but not as bad as last time). More wriggling and wiggling and he discovered the new part was ever so slightly longer (or was it shorter?) than the original. But some extra washers secured it and it's all now back together and connected. (I was busy babysitting so missed most of this).

The last hurdle was hook up the car and test the lights and indicators etc. It's very rare that it all works first time - but this year is the exception. Last night Henry washed the car - it had more white spots than actual bodywork, and then put it in a building out of the way of birds. So, we're now ready to go at a moments notice (which is how it's supposed to be).

Looking forward to next March, I've booked tickets to see Chris Rea at Harrogate. It seemed to be a bit of a faff - several sites had "pre-sales" when you could get tickets a day early if you were registered. But they all seemed to offer blocks of seats in the less well favoured blocks. I held back until yesterday and then booked direct with the box office, managing to get the same seats as we had in 2010 (so we know they are in a good position).

Have you been looking at our "new" weather page? The new station and updated software seems to be working very well. I'm confident that the results are accurate (no more tropical temperatures as the sun beat down on an exposed thermometer), so I have registered with WOW. This is a Met Office site (Weather Observations Website) and shows weather information across the country. Our site uploads to them every 15 minutes, and a quick look on the home page shows the range of temperatures. (It can be changed to other variables). It's a new venture, so it has had some issues (e.g. performance), but is better now. Click here to see for yourself. You can zoom in and drill down to see details of all the sites. If you know where we are, we're easy to find.

WOW site

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