{"id":126,"date":"2012-04-07T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=126"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:07:42","slug":"we-have-a-home-but-were-going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/04\/07\/we-have-a-home-but-were-going-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have A Home, But We’re Going Nowhere…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m struggling to come to terms with it still, but I will actually admit that I went trainspotting the other day.\u00a0 Andy sold the event to me as a \u201cnot to be missed\u201d event and we didn\u2019t miss it, especially as the train was late.\u00a0 \u201cTornado\u201d is apparently the newest modern A1 class steam engine in existence built in 2008 from very old plans. It was travelling from Peterborough to Salisbury via Hertford, so we went down to Hertford Soccer Club to watch it go over a viaduct.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t write down the number, so I don\u2019t think I\u2019m officially a trainspotter, but we did get a couple of nice photos that might interest all you real train fans.<\/p>\n

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Trainspotting<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Tornado”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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More in line with my personal interests was a visit the next day to a local chocolate factory, Lessiters.\u00a0 We purchased a selection of delights, including a chocolate train for Andy, apparently modelled more along the lines of Thomas the Tank Engine than \u201cTornado\u201d.<\/p>\n

Finally on Thursday, Andy and Carole drove us up to Ramsay Forty Foot to collect our new home.\u00a0 After the money exchanged hands, we were given an interesting rundown on how to operate everything by Col.\u00a0 He dazzled us with endless buttons and levers and knobs and switches and dials, all done with a very funny dry sense of humour.\u00a0 He suggested that the diesel gas should be put in the diesel tank and not in the water tank, apparently it has been done the other way around!\u00a0 He informed us that he likes to sleep in a real bed with a proper roof over him at night\u2026..he thinks we\u2019re totally mad to want to live in a campervan.\u00a0 He also told us he had one customer who returned his campervan after\u00a0just two\u00a0weeks unable to find any enjoyment in the experience, hopefully we won\u2019t be doing that!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 We celebrated the purchase with a lovely lunch with Andy and Carole at the appropriately named, \u201cThe Jolly Sailor\u201d pub in Ramsay before driving our new home down to Hertford.<\/p>\n

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Putting up the awning<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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So Eileen is now parked up at our friend, Chris\u2019 warehouse waiting patiently to be kitted out with all the necessities.\u00a0 We have no water, gas or electricity, we\u2019re hoping to sort these out tomorrow, or Tuesday.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had a mega spend at Tesco\u2019s, so we\u2019re now nearly fully equipped in the kitchen and bedroom; can opener, chopping boards, wine glasses, pillows, etc.\u00a0 We still can\u2019t go overseas until the registration papers arrive, which could be another\u00a0two or\u00a0three weeks, so we\u2019ll probably have a practise run somewhere in England before we hop on a ferry to France.<\/p>\n

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Campervan tour with Col<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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So we’re still waiting, waiting, waiting to be international grey nomads……..<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m struggling to come to terms with it still, but I will actually admit that I went trainspotting the other day.\u00a0 Andy sold the event to me as a \u201cnot to be missed\u201d event and we didn\u2019t miss it, especially as the train was late.\u00a0 \u201cTornado\u201d is apparently the newest modern A1 class steam engine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pre-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}