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Had a bit of a mishap this afternoon :rolleyes: having looked at the weather reports we decided to leave Sierrecilla and head out of the mountains and down to Cadiz where it should be a lot warmer at night.
So we booked in got the van levelled up plugged in to the electric (y) Diane had the kettle on
whilst I sorted out the Fiamma awning easy peasy :ROFLMAO:

Yeah right ! 2nd peg to hold the awning legs down straight through a water pipe :eek:
Luckily it was only for the irrigation system about 20' away by the time I'd got to the office and had the water turned off we had a small pond around our pitch.

The Dutch chap at the Side asked how deep the pipes were buried? About 4" he'd just knocked in about a dozen pegs on his pitch.
Guess it just wasn't my day:cry:
 

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Had a bit of a mishap this afternoon :rolleyes: having looked at the weather reports we decided to leave Sierrecilla and head out of the mountains and down to Cadiz where it should be a lot warmer at night.
So we booked in got the van levelled up plugged in to the electric (y) Diane had the kettle on
whilst I sorted out the Fiamma awning easy peasy :ROFLMAO:

Yeah right ! 2nd peg to hold the awning legs down straight through a water pipe :eek:
Luckily it was only for the irrigation system about 20' away by the time I'd got to the office and had the water turned off we had a small pond around our pitch.

The Dutch chap at the Side asked how deep the pipes were buried? About 4" he'd just knocked in about a dozen pegs on his pitch.
Guess it just wasn't my day:cry:
it was a do it yourself pool,you don't get that often on a site :D
 
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If this was back in the UK, you'd have had a skating rink :)

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Bet they charged you extra for the pitch water feature, the Spanish love their fountains dont they just :D
 

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Had a bit of a mishap this afternoon :rolleyes: having looked at the weather reports we decided to leave Sierrecilla and head out of the mountains and down to Cadiz where it should be a lot warmer at night.
So we booked in got the van levelled up plugged in to the electric (y) Diane had the kettle on
whilst I sorted out the Fiamma awning easy peasy :ROFLMAO:

Yeah right ! 2nd peg to hold the awning legs down straight through a water pipe :eek:
Luckily it was only for the irrigation system about 20' away by the time I'd got to the office and had the water turned off we had a small pond around our pitch.

The Dutch chap at the Side asked how deep the pipes were buried? About 4" he'd just knocked in about a dozen pegs on his pitch.
Guess it just wasn't my day:cry:
Don't believe you ... you're in 'Little England' mode and wanted a moat round your 'castle'! :LOL:
 
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A happy ending (y) all fixed by 8 30 this morning :eek:

2 nicer maintenance guys you couldn't hope to meet (y)

Apparently I'm not the first to nail the pipe :LOL::ROFLMAO:.
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Did the same thing at Foum Zghuid in Morocco but only noticed it when I took the peg out. It was a water supply pipe about 1 inch below the surface and despite there being half a dozen stop taps within 10 yards, none of them would turn it off.
One of the lads who run the site came with an old bicycle inner tube, wrapped it round the pipe and secured it with a tie-wrap from my toolbox then reburied it! Job done!
 
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One of the lads who run the site came with an old bicycle inner tube, wrapped it round the pipe and secured it with a tie-wrap from my toolbox then reburied it! Job done!
I shall remember that tip. Thanks for the heads up Terry :D
 
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A happy ending (y) all fixed by 8 30 this morning :eek:

2 nicer maintenance guys you couldn't hope to meet (y)

Apparently I'm not the first to nail the pipe :LOL::ROFLMAO:.
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Don't suppose anyone asked them to dig a deeper trench and re-bury the pipe, did they?

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We were just about to leave - but returned twelve months later and guess what?













IT HAD BEEN REPAIRED!

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