5th August 2009

A second day sorting out the caravan. It was so hot in there.  In the evening we went to Toby Carvery with Shirley and Steve. When we had finished we drove into Broadstairs. The following week was Broadstairs Folk week but we went into the Tartar Frigate where they had folk on and then watched the firework display on the beach. It was such a lovely evening, we could have been in Cyprus! People were having barbecues on the beach. Broadstairs has a connection with Charles Dickens as he visited it regularly and there is a Dickens Museum there.

I used my new camera during the evening and some of the pictures were awful and when we returned to the caravan discovered that it was making an awful grinding noise. Obviously a serious fault. It will have to go back.

3rd August 2009

We left Marion and Bryan’s and called into Lakeside on the way back. We went to Ikea to see if they still had some wind breaks for us to take back to Cyprus but sadly they had sold out.  We then went to Comet to buy a new Pentax camera as my last camera broke and I had been borrowing Mal’s. The nice salesman explained to us why buying products on the internet was cheaper – apparently it’s because they are foreign imports not meant for UK use. Mal managed to get a £5 reduction and when we unpacked the box on the way back home we discovered the instruction manual was only in Japanese.

I gave Mal back his broken camera and he immediately fixed it!

A quiet night in the caravan.