A perfect Saturday

About every 3 months team Edmundson electrical Scunthorpe play team Seymour and Castle Louth at Golf. In other words Dean and Chris from Edmundson play Buzz and myself. This Saturday it was at Tetney, with a special deal of coffee and bacon bun on arrival, a round of golf, then lunch all for £20 (fantastic). The weather was good, the company excellent (Dean kept us all laughing as usual) All together a good round, except we lost. This now ties the score at one match halved and 1 win each.

It’s a hard life being a athlete.

After lunch we sat in the bar watching the men’s cycle road race. (we do suffer for sport) Then back home to watch the Hungarian G.P. Qualifying.

Then shower and smarten up (a little bit), off to Buzz’s for a barbecue with good friends and some excellent food made and contributed by the guys.

A PERFECT SATURDAY

Golf quotes

Just a few of the great quotes from this years Open

“A divit big enough for the harvest festival”

“There is plenty of furniture in the bag to reach the green”

“If the wind gets up they will forced to take some timber”

A perfect Sunday

Buzz contacted me and asked if Wendy and I would like to go for a bike ride on Sunday. Lynda and Buzz are both good and experienced riders and have just got 2 new very nice touring bikes. So with a bit of trepidation I agreed (hoping battery power would compensate for our lack of ability and fitness)

They came around at 11.30 (a very civilised time) and we set off up the A16, turning up into the Wolds. Wendy and I riding battery bikes made it possible for us to ride along together. we rode thro Wold Newton to the http://www.clickem-inn.co.uk/ for lunch, sat outside in the sunshine. (I had a sausage sandwich with chips “yummy”)

On the way back there where 2 big hills. The first one just outside Binbrook, Wendy who was leading left me by 50yds and on the second she actually overtook me. (sorry guys I hang my head in shame) Then back down into Louth. a 25 mile round trip. (my longest bike ride for 48 years)

Our first stop was the Wheatsheaf (to quench our thirst !!)

Later on we all met up at our house to watch The Open Golf, The German Grand Prix and The Tour of France Followed by a meal with a few Drinks.

A PERFECT SUNDAY

Gas

Campers use bottled gas which is no problem at all in the U.K. Most have 2 bottles when one is empty you switch to the other and replace the empty one. Short trips to Europe is no problem as the bottles will last you. But the problem start on longer trips. Our camper uses gas for hob, oven, fridge/freezer, hot water and heating. When on a site with electric you only use gas for the hob, so therefore the gas usage will vary. But on average a full bottle lasts us about 40 / 50 nights though it can be as low as 10 nights if the heating is on 24/7

So on long trips it could be a problem, you can’t swap your English bottle for a continental one as the connections are all different (and they don’t want a Calor bottle) One way round this is to fit refillable
bottles

I fit the Gaslow bottles using stainless pipes (stops oil build up in appliances that you can get with rubber pipes). They are filled by driving along to you local garage that sells L.P.G. And topping them up.

There are a couple of little problems, L.P.G is a mixture of butane and propane and varies all over Europe and is not as hot as propane. Which means the kettle takes a little longer to boil (I can cope with that.) The main problem is there are a lot of different filler nozzles (what else could you expect in the European union) To overcome this you can buy adaptors for the different types of
fillers.

L.P.G. Is a lot cheaper than bottled gas. This last trip after 10 weeks away I stopped at a German garage, the pump had a choice of 2 nozzles (which made it easier) great, so I filled them up. It cost 24Euro (£20) not bad for 10 weeks gas.

Bikes

Well we have finally bought 2 bikes, I think we must have been the only camper people in Europe without 2 bikes sat on the back. We searched on the internet then from a friend we herd there was a company near
Lincolnwho made and supplied electric bikes (yes that’s right the ones with battery’s for old codgers). the company is http://www.batribike.com/ So off we went, met the owner he suggested a 4 mile test ride (i thought I cant ride 4 miles) he reminded us that they are electric assisted and it would be easy, it was Wendy had a Dutch step through, and I had a city/mountain.

We had bought a Thule tow bar mounted rack so we could take them on the camper or car, this works fantastic and you cant tell its on the back

we have one problem Wendy is left handed so can’t take that hand off the handlebars. Hence she can only signal with her right arm (I am now getting fed up of going round in clockwise circles)

Flightsocks

Watching the athletics last night I noticed all the long jumpers were wearing flight socks, is this because “they jump into the air”

huile delin

The French use linseed oil a lot, so when we moved into this house and took the lounge ceiling out, I bought some pitch pine beams from a friend of Sandra and Brian in Yorkshire. These were rough cut so I sanded them up and oiled them with linseed. Now 4 years later I decided to give them another coat they came up fantastic,” its a great oil”