Tuesday 27 January 2009

Well we have had quite a good day today. We went to Profit this morning at 8am as the air conditioning was not working in the car. It seems that they forgot to refill the gas in the UK, but on further inspection they whole back unit was taken out as requested, but none of the pipes were then blocked up! The guys at Profit had to take pipes out and refit new pipes, took about 3 and a bit hours to complete and now we have air conditioning back in the front. As it was only about 27 degrees today it wasn't really needed though.

Then we were back to Bushwakka to get the tow ball sorted out - we now have such a heavy duty towball that if it were to break half the car would be going with it, needless to say I don't think there will be any problems with it now. They have to do some last minute adjustments to it tomorrow to complete it and all should be honky dorey.

Tomorrow we have still got a few things to sort out and so we may stay at the same campsite down the road where we stayed last week, then head on south on Thursday - fingers crossed that we do actually finally get away.

Tonight we took Jeremy and Kim out for dinner (one of the Hewitt brothers) as they were the ones who showed us the ropes last week and we have definitely found new friends in SA Worcester to be exact, thanks for your company and we had a lovely evening.

Well thanks for the message Paul and have a great time in Oz.

Love and hugs to all xxx

3 comments:

Ann Bates said...

HiDee Martin nothing is ever expected to run smoothly. The trailer looks fabulous plenty of room. Sounds like you have a great bunch of friends at least with the delays you have had extra time to spend with them. Hope ther are no more delays and you can get started on your trip. Everything is fine back home first snowdrops are up. Love and good wishes Ann x

Anonymous said...

Hi Dee and Martin
You should have no more delays now, you must have checked everything, hopefully you will get on the road to your adventure Thursday now.
We are off to Opito Bay 6am in the morning, have baked a bacon and egg pie, a mince pie and some yoyos and afghans, everyone likes those so should be okay.
Lots of love to you both, Mum, Col and Nana (who is out here today, I took her out to lunch)xxxxxx

Olivia and Jules said...

Hi Martin and Dee
I've been following your progress for the past couple of weeks. Great to hear the car/trailer turned up in one piece.
Capetown feels like a far cry from London today - we woke up to 40cm of snow! Have already decked Jules with snowballs and realised that with no public transport, even attempting to get to work is madness. We just bought some new snow gear for going to Whistler in a couple of weeks so testing that will be the sum of my 'work' today!
All is well with the Cook/Shaw/Halls. We're waiting for Claire to pop so excited about that (all money is on it being a boy...so it probably won't be). Will let you know the news when it happens.
Love to you both and keep the stories coming...
Olivia x