CMC Hawes

This blog comes from a very soggy CMC Hawes,serviced pitch of course not in the cheap seats down by the toilets.

Had a couple of visits to the cheese factory of course,purely to check out the free samples for my blog readers.

We also had a magnificent fly past two days running of military aircaraft including a very low flying Spitfire and many passes of what looked like helicopter gunships,it was like M.A.S.H.

Had an inauspicious arrival on site when SWMBO,bless her,wound one of the front steadies down on my fingers whilst I was  guiding the supporting blocks into place.

In case anyone was wondering yes a ton and a half of caravan on your fingers does make your eyes water.

To compound it all when I asked her in a calm and reasonable voice to raise the f*****g thing she wound it the wrong way.


It has taken us over a year but we have eventually worked out how to fit the Isabella Eclipse side panel properly.

If you are not in possession of the above you can skip this bit.

I have been positioning the Eclipse so it is equal on both sides of the caravan centre line,there is an equal amount of Eclipse round the bend of the awning rail on each side in other words.

Sadly this causes the side panel to flap about under poor tension so what you need to do is pull the Eclipse further around the far bend so the end panel is tighter when pegged out.

I have used a marker pen to indicate the position the Eclipse needs to be around the far bend.

There thats's cleared that up hasn't it.


Apart from SWMBO breaking my Isabella washing up drainer,and of course the finger incident, we have had no problems.



I really must bring it to the attention of Colapz at the upcoming NEC show that their peg support system for their expandable waste pipes is absolutely useless on a hard standing pitch.

They just won't penetrate the ground even though I have ground points on them.


Well we will be at the NEC show in a couple of weeks and then that is us for this year.

One last thing,I am now officially an OAP,pension and bus pass, fully paid up.

I must admit the bus pass is great,been from Hawes to Leyburn today,free both ways,can't beat it.

All you workers keep slaving away to pay for it.

Ian