Not too much to report today really. A brief trip in to Gramat to visit a small local supermarket for some essentials, wine and cheese, we were back home in the caravan by lunchtime and quite ready for the fresh brie and crisp bread laid on for lunch. The sun is shining away and the temperature is a nice 29 degrees of heat.
Following Noels swim and some emailing etc the BBQ was lit to finish off the chicken pieces that had been already partly pre cooked in the oven. With chicken you can never be to careful when preparing and we could have finished it off in the oven but putting it on some hot charcoal adds a certain taste which can sometimes only be described as ‘slightly burnt’ but a really great taste at the same time. Somehow Noel managed to pretty much finish off some cheap wine and so it was a good evening.
Unfortunately, a party of four has arrived with their caravan and tent and load of beer bottles and a dog and set up next to us so we hope that they will keep quiet or I’ll send the missus round to sort em out.
My troubles with the Fair FX prepaid Master card are slowly becoming resolved in that the problems that I have faced are not unique and it would appear as Fair FX has admitted but they are still working on trying to resolve it. Jennifer complains that when life is quiet I turn to checking on things which may not seem important eg.
We have a tracking system on the caravan provided by ‘Phantom’. The idea is that once it is turned on and that somebody, other than us, tries to move the caravan then it will notify us by mobile, we then notify the police and then pass the police ref number to Phantom who will then get the cops in helicopter’s, cars and warships to try and locate it. They say it works extremely well although over the last couple of years it has not worked to well for us and so whilst sitting here thinking about the world in general Noel thought it would be a good idea to ask Phantom to check on his caravan and tell hime where it is. Several emails later that say they GPS system tracker is working well but us as there is no GSM signal it cannot tell us where it is. This does not seem to make sense as if the GPS works why
they can’t tell us where the van is, we were informed that the GSM connection is only to send a message to us telling the van is moving. So my questions to them and pending a reply are , surely a GPS signal can tell you a location but if they say that if there is no GSM (mobile phone signal) then the system is flawed. Assuming there is no mobile coverage over several square miles than one presumes they cannot find it. I am looking forward to their reply.
