CMC Buxton

Just coming to the end of a five night stay at the above site in Derbyshire.

It is a lovely site located in an old limestone quarry. 

The weather hasn't been sparkling though with plenty of the wet stuff. 

The Cadiz has been faultless with no disasters over the winter layup as this is our first trip of the year due to SWMBO'S knee surgery.

One thing has improved on some CMC sites is they now have free Wi-Fi for an hour, not very fast at 1Mps,but it's there all the same. When the hour is up just log in again. There are paid for options as well but I found the free service adequate.

Ian 

Peggy Pegs

My step daughter bought me a set of the above pegs for my birthday as I thought they would be much easier to use screwing in and out rather than hammering standard pegs in and pulling out as I suffer from rotator cuff problems in both shoulders. 

[Full of innuendo here aren't we].

Anyway I was greatly disappointed by them when used on a hard standing. 

It is not made abundantly clear on their web site that they aren't suitable for hard standing use.

They don't screw in property, the end gets chavelled up and when they are in aren't secure.

Even drilling a pilot hole is not successful plus you have to alter the drill chuck for the drill and then alter it again for the peg adaptor then alter again for the drill for the next peg and so on.

I imagine on grass they would be OK

There are also some blue tabs so you can "tie it off" before the whole peg is in, these are a faff to use as well.

All in all I was less than impressed by Peggy Pegs when I had such high hopes for them.

Ian

Yearly Service

The Cadiz has had its yearly service today by Tom from DTH Caravan Services,also had the shock absorbers changed for bright shiny new ones.

Everything dry and ship shape. 

Did a professional job as usual in torrential rain.

Ian

Cancellations

Unfortunately our first two caravan trips to York Beechwood Grange and Clumber Park have had to be cancelled as SWMBO has undergone knee surgery.

It will probably be May before we will be out again in the van. 

Ian