Caravania.....

So today off to collect the caravan in the plugeot.

Not a bad little van, the door does not quite shut right but nothing a few minor adjustments using green goddess tools could not sort out.

OK so I beat crap out of it with a big hammer.

The interior though is great. There is a cooker, a fridge with a small freezer box, a sink, a heater for those cold nights all: in all for us it's ideal.

If it lasts a year it will be worth every penny.

But there was more to it than that.

Normal caravans have funny legs on them to hold them off the floor in camp sites, they have mechanical screw adjustments to achieve this. Lots of rolling round underneath and generous helpings of swearing to achieve it.

Not this one.

Someone had got very clever and designed a trick hydraulic jacking system, it is something seriously sophisticated. Lots of valves and controls that mean there were legs going up and legs going down all over the shop.

There are 4 valve controls that control legs at the front and legs at the back, Logic says it should be one per leg but not so.

Far too simple, now, think about this, how many on/off combinations can you have with 4 valves. OK one of them seems to be a master for the pump so that's just three.

The thing is a bloody nightmare.

Oh, there is also the jockey wheel, this has a mind of it's own and seems to go up and down at random. Occasionally it simply jams.

Boy do I love it.

But I think we have it sussed now, well at least I think I can get the thing off the back of the car and on it's legs.

That's enough for me.

R