All our camping savvy friends had told us to buy a low wattage heater for use when plugged into the mains. The sites charge a one off price for electrics and why burn gas when you can use their power for nothing extra? Why low wattage you ask? Because the sites electrical systems are so dodgy that plugging in an appliance often blows a few fuses so low is best!
So it was after our lovely day when I am on the phone to my mother that Jc plugs the fire in. The lights flicker a bit but all stays the same, although the fire is now not working. Jc doesn't like my cheap ebay fire so takes the opportunity to slag it off and mumbles about binning it until i point out that the mains system is now not working which is why the fire doesn't.
Now camping is not that dissimilar to sailing except that you don't die if the vessel gets holed and your bed is unlikely to be horizontal in either of it's two planes. However Jc mentioned only 2 days ago that when you go camping things always go wrong! (I didn't know that!). So, like sailing there should always be a Plan B and of course we had one. We don't need mains electrics as we have a solar panel topping up our batteries and lots of storage in them anyway. And the fridge runs off gas. So no worries there, and whilst we are on our lovely adventure I know it might sound a bit odd but I do like to keep to my routine and tonight Yusef is going to show Zainab his true colours in eastenders and I am interested to see what colours they are. Jc by this time has disappeared head down under the passenger sear and into the fuse box, so I quietly fire up the big sat dome and whilst giving encouraging comments on the electrical system am able to watch the drama unfold.
Then all goes dark. Which means we need plan C but we don't have one. There is some heated discussion and I haul Jc out by his legs and suggest we find the Burstner manual. The electrical section in it ranges from page 147 to 214. About half an inch thick and all in gobbledygook. But luckily there was a troubleshooting section which referred to another chapter and there we found lovely individual floor plans or maybe we should call them technical drawings of each of the Burstner quadro models. Finding ours, the very first thing you notice is an arrow pointing to the wardrobe with the text 240 VOLT FUSE. And so it was and life was resumed. However, the true colours of Yusef had already been shown!
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So I came on to catch up with progress, only to find about 4 more entries. Don't the days go quickly?! All sounds to be expected - you wouldn't want it to be straightforward or you would not have interesting things to write about! Can't help you with Yusuf I'm afraid! x
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