It's here!

[Verity]

Collected at 4pm. Too dark when we got home to play much, but my husband has already made a mess of the passenger door by trying to turn the front seat round without opening the door. 'OPEN THE DOOR', I shoulded and 'READ THE MANUAL' very loudly, but he is a MAN and could not bring himself to do it.

Hey ho - I am very sure that over the next 15 years or so we will make many dents and dings in our lovely van, and it will just prove that we love him and play with him lots.

(PS Husb is now looking at the manual, and finding out all sorts of strange new things we didn't know ...).

!!!

 

[Hotel California]

Great stuff , did you get a mark on the door panel caused by the seat-swivel?

 

[Teejay]

Congratulations, I write this while sitting in the Lake District, currently the latest we've camped in the UK. Seen three California's here already. Keswick btw

 

[Verity]

Congratulations, I write this while sitting in the Lake District, currently the latest we've camped in the UK. Seen three California's here already. Keswick btw

Nice. We can't go away this weekend as I have a girly birthday do to go to Sat afternoon (grrrr), but maybe Sunday night first camp? We may have to get up very early wherever we are and come home though as my husband has work and an early conference call I think. We'll see. We can defo do next weekend

 

[Verity]

Great stuff , did you get a mark on the door panel caused by the seat-swivel?

Yup

 

[Hotel California]

Yup

Join the club , mine's got a mark on the passengersdoor(right door for me)
Many have it...

 

[T6 CFO]

Collected at 4pm. Too dark when we got home to play much, but my husband has already made a mess of the passenger door by trying to turn the front seat round without opening the door. 'OPEN THE DOOR', I shoulded and 'READ THE MANUAL' very loudly, but he is a MAN and could not bring himself to do it.

Hey ho - I am very sure that over the next 15 years or so we will make many dents and dings in our lovely van, and it will just prove that we love him and play with him lots.

(PS Husb is now looking at the manual, and finding out all sorts of strange new things we didn't know ...).

!!!

Congratulations.
Bring him inside with the manual as he won't be able to restrain himself from opening the roof.



Mike

 

[sapto]

Great! Any chance of getting some pictures of your new pride and joy?

 

[Trailertrash]

So Exciting......It's a bit like having a baby but without the awful child afterwards!

 

[Verity]

Congratulations.
Bring him inside with the manual as he won't be able to restrain himself from opening the roof.



Mike

Mission accomplished. Sat him down at the kitchen table with a glass of celebratory bubbly and the user's manual. Today we're going to sit on the front drive and put the roof up and down a lot I imagine. We may even venture out to a layby for a cup of tea. We're such happening people!

 

[Verity]

Great! Any chance of getting some pictures of your new pride and joy?

I will put something up later. We've awoken to thick fog, so a white campervan doesn't stand out very well!

 

[Verity]

So Exciting......It's a bit like having a baby but without the awful child afterwards!

Having had a child who screamed constantly for 4 years and didn't sleep until he was 3, this is an appealing analogy! I'm pleased to say the alarm didn't go off overnight, so we're already onto a winner there!

 

[T6 CFO]

Mission accomplished. Sat him down at the kitchen table with a glass of celebratory bubbly and the user's manual. Today we're going to sit on the front drive and put the roof up and down a lot I imagine. We may even venture out to a layby for a cup of tea. We're such happening people!

That was the first thing we did. Down to the sea front at Portishead overlooking the Bristol Channel. Roof up kettle on and biscuits out. Lovely. Enjoy


Mike

 

[Verity]

That was the first thing we did. Down to the sea front at Portishead overlooking the Bristol Channel. Roof up kettle on and biscuits out. Lovely. Enjoy


Mike

I've got bored now.

I keep asking questions about bed, roof, heater etc but husb is now happily playing with the screen, his default position in life, and all the family's phones, so I won't get any communication from him till he's stopped playing with that!

I can't get to grips with the user manual. There are so many options, and so many safety warnings that by the time you get to the bit you want you've lost the will to live. I finally found a diagram of the heat controls at the back, but while there's an explanation of the 2 buttons on the analog version, there's no explanation of what all the buttons do on the version I seem to have, so I guess I'll just have to play with it one day and see what happens.

I'm going to go up in the loft and get out all the stuff which came out of our caravan and see what will and won't fit in the various cupboards and cubby holes in the new van. Plus, obviously, my new cushions etc!

 

[T6 CFO]

I've got bored now.

I keep asking questions about bed, roof, heater etc but husb is now happily playing with the screen, his default position in life, and all the family's phones, so I won't get any communication from him till he's stopped playing with that!

I can't get to grips with the user manual. There are so many options, and so many safety warnings that by the time you get to the bit you want you've lost the will to live. I finally found a diagram of the heat controls at the back, but while there's an explanation of the 2 buttons on the analog version, there's no explanation of what all the buttons do on the version I seem to have, so I guess I'll just have to play with it one day and see what happens.

I'm going to go up in the loft and get out all the stuff which came out of our caravan and see what will and won't fit in the various cupboards and cubby holes in the new van. Plus, obviously, my new cushions etc!

He sounds like me and you have NO chance until he has it all working.
Good game and one we played yesterday was parking outside a Staples. Hand them your driving licence as collateral and then take 1 of each really useful box size you might want out to Cali and play Jenga with them. We now have our kitchen cupboards sorted.


Mike

 

[Teejay]

He sounds like me and you have NO chance until he has it all working.
Good game and one we played yesterday was parking outside a Staples. Hand them your driving licence as collateral and then take 1 of each really useful box size you might want out to Cali and play Jenga with them. We now have our kitchen cupboards sorted.


Mike

Ooo you'll have to fill us in on that score. Still not sure what sizes fit where.

 

[T6 CFO]

We have gone for crockery top left with plates in a container and one of these on top

http://www.homesteadcaravans.co.uk/froli-universal-glass-cup-holder.htm

Bottom left we have 4 boxes which precisely fill the space and brought a smile to the bosses face when she found they took cans stood up. Little things

I'll do some pics soonish and put on the appropriate thread.


Mike

 

[Verity]

He sounds like me and you have NO chance until he has it all working.
Good game and one we played yesterday was parking outside a Staples. Hand them your driving licence as collateral and then take 1 of each really useful box size you might want out to Cali and play Jenga with them. We now have our kitchen cupboards sorted.


Mike

I used to have my caravan cupboards super organised and rattle free. We are booked to go to Cambridge for our first camp tomorrow night. I will take a box of stuff and start playing. We already have loads of Really Useful Boxes which go in my husband's Mitsubishi pickup, in bespoke wooden dividers he made for the back of the pickup for our summer camp in France this year. I think they are the 64 litre ones which lots of people on this forum already use. I also have in the loft some of the black Ikea soft boxes others have pictured. I'm ready to arse around for days and days to get the perfect pack! Such fun!

 

[Verity]

We have gone for crockery top left with plates in a container and one of these on top

http://www.homesteadcaravans.co.uk/froli-universal-glass-cup-holder.htm

Bottom left we have 4 boxes which precisely fill the space and brought a smile to the bosses face when she found they took cans stood up. Little things

I'll do some pics soonish and put on the appropriate thread.


Mike

I'm looking forward to seeing your pics. It's like porn for retired people, all this storage talk. It's got my juices flowing! How sad are we??!! Never had such a big smile on my face! I love to bring order out of chaos. My husband is also the world's most anal packer. When we first met we were like two halves of the same person. Then the years went on and we drifted in different directions as work and children (well child) got in the way. Now we are coming together again over completely anorakky things like the perfect storage box. It was clearly meant to be