On the road again.....

Now, this post should have been written last week, but we weren't allowed to put up a fishing bivvy to store the fishing gear in so we had to come home again. Apparently they don't take tents. They take awnings, which you can drive away from, making them into...... Well, we said tents, but hey. Their loss is our gain, as we have found a beautiful new camping and fishing place.

Woodstock Farm, Wereham, Norfolk.

See. How beautiful is this? Hard standing for the camper, with grass for the bivvy (that isn't a tent...) and metered electricity on the hook up. The lake is behind that fence that you can see on the left.........









........ and is this stunning. The weather was lovely, the area was beautiful, and we saw a hare, a barn owl, a red kite and something that unfortunately might have been a mink. I say unfortunately, because you don't want one of those at a fishing lake.






The fishing was good - 115 fish on the first day and 54 on the second part day. 28lb over all. There was a lot of small fish, but also some bream and we had sight of a koi, but he wasn't interested in what we had to offer. This week. Next week, he is going on that hook!


The Younger Boy had a good time as well. He's been very tired recently, so took the chance to chill out and read.






The whole weekend, with electricity and a bivvy and a child and 2 days fishing, was £54.

Obviously, as Brian has been sitting around over the winter with only a few runs, there were things for us to find out.

Thanks to last weeks abortive attempt at a weekend away, we had found them out. He has a back window seal leak. He must have. His back end noise dampening was full of water. Full, as in, you could push it out by putting a towel from front to back. This had then wicked up into the upholstery, and ran out as we dragged the back piece out and had it drying in the hall for a week. Thanks to spending the extra on getting the upholstery done properly, it hasn't warped, just obligingly dried out. No smell of damp, nothing.

Brian's intermittent indicator fault, which wasn't intermittent, it was all the time, has fixed itself over the winter. This is helpful in one way - having indicators is a good thing. However, it may become intermittent again at any point, leading us to to be confused once more.

On the whole it was a good run out for him and us. We also found out that you can fry bacon in a saucepan if you are the kind of person who remembers to take the frying pan in to wash it, but forgets to put it back in the van again.......