Jaws
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- Sep 26, 2008
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Welllll,
we have stopped at all sorts of places down the west coast of France.. Eventually turning east just above Bordeaux and heading in land to meet up with my elder step brother, who I had not seen for 30 years.. A pleasant afternoon there but we moved on and ended up at a place just south of Avignon..
Went for a bike ride .. 6 miles out and woman decides the ground needs a much closer inspection... Ambulance called and she is carted off to hossy, all the time protesting she was fine...
I rode like a madman back to the camp site where I packed up in 2 minutes flat and followed the ambulance to the hossy
Parked up and went to emergency.. 20 minutes of form filling and an hour wait later I was getting concerned.. Made noises and they sort of looked a bit furtive and shuffled me in to a side waiting room on my own
30 minutes later ( !!! ) a woman doctor fianlly came and asked if Maureen had banged her head ?? !!
No.. grazed knee and swollen thumb.. WHY ? !!
Cos we cannot find her...........................................
Woman had decided she really did not want any treatment and was absolutely fine.. so had just got off the examination table and strolled out without telling anyone oh:
Security was running around like headless chooks and one guy took me out in his security car to take a look around..
Eventually found her sitting in the shade by the main entrance !!!!
Happy to report her self diagnostic was correct and apart from a slightly stiff thumb no ill effects remain.
Other than that, the bloody fridge died on 12v ( traced to a spade terminal that had got hot and gone high resistance***, the cruise control going intermittent ( traced to a loose fitting fuse on the control loom,, so must have been dodgy from the day I installed it ), and both the small electric cooker hobs bought in Spain barely getting warm, both suffering duff spade terminal connections inside them***
***
When will manufacturers learn that spade connectors are the absolute WORST possible type of connection for anything drawing more than a couple of amps max..
I see the same issues on motorcycle charging circuits almost daily when at home..
Soooooooooo
Where are we now ?
A camp site called Le Nautical.. Its about 40 miles from the Italian border, and around 14 miles due east of Gap on a massive lake ( wellll, not ON a massive lake but on the shore ! )
Next stop will be northern Italy.. though no idea where as yet !
we have stopped at all sorts of places down the west coast of France.. Eventually turning east just above Bordeaux and heading in land to meet up with my elder step brother, who I had not seen for 30 years.. A pleasant afternoon there but we moved on and ended up at a place just south of Avignon..
Went for a bike ride .. 6 miles out and woman decides the ground needs a much closer inspection... Ambulance called and she is carted off to hossy, all the time protesting she was fine...
I rode like a madman back to the camp site where I packed up in 2 minutes flat and followed the ambulance to the hossy
Parked up and went to emergency.. 20 minutes of form filling and an hour wait later I was getting concerned.. Made noises and they sort of looked a bit furtive and shuffled me in to a side waiting room on my own
30 minutes later ( !!! ) a woman doctor fianlly came and asked if Maureen had banged her head ?? !!
No.. grazed knee and swollen thumb.. WHY ? !!
Cos we cannot find her...........................................
Woman had decided she really did not want any treatment and was absolutely fine.. so had just got off the examination table and strolled out without telling anyone oh:
Security was running around like headless chooks and one guy took me out in his security car to take a look around..
Eventually found her sitting in the shade by the main entrance !!!!
Happy to report her self diagnostic was correct and apart from a slightly stiff thumb no ill effects remain.
Other than that, the bloody fridge died on 12v ( traced to a spade terminal that had got hot and gone high resistance***, the cruise control going intermittent ( traced to a loose fitting fuse on the control loom,, so must have been dodgy from the day I installed it ), and both the small electric cooker hobs bought in Spain barely getting warm, both suffering duff spade terminal connections inside them***
***
When will manufacturers learn that spade connectors are the absolute WORST possible type of connection for anything drawing more than a couple of amps max..
I see the same issues on motorcycle charging circuits almost daily when at home..
Soooooooooo
Where are we now ?
A camp site called Le Nautical.. Its about 40 miles from the Italian border, and around 14 miles due east of Gap on a massive lake ( wellll, not ON a massive lake but on the shore ! )
Next stop will be northern Italy.. though no idea where as yet !