





Might be time to look for another repairer. Give a call to the repairer that has it at the moment and tell them that you can see they are obviously too busy to do the repair on your van and you are sorry that the NRMA put the added pressure on you, but you are about to call the NRMA and give them an earful and demand they pick the van up and take it to a repairer who isn't over booked ...... I think that will have the desired effect, they will lose their preferential repairer classification if they p*ss you off any further because you are going to give the NRMA an earful about using a repairer who is far too busy to actually make the repair ...... they will suddenly have found the time and tell you it is in the shop now being repaired at the very moment and should be ready to pick up in the morning .......dream4red wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:22 am Hi Dot, your mate is just not in a great place for her own mental safety, is my opinion. I am sending her my positive vibes and hopefully, someone will be reasonable. xxxx
Shirley is so right about the freezing windy weather. I reckon her bowls would ice to her fingers if she tried to play. Stay warm inside is all I can offer.
Our caravan is still gracing the grass at the repairers. Not happy, but we are in no place to get anything done any quicker. They have people with vans that were booked in for service and they get priority, or so they are saying. It's starting to feel like yet another nightmare. They have had the van for three weeks and I reckon the job will take a few hours at the most, but they are stringing it out.
The winds are so strong that we keep hoping that our neighbour's tree will fall down now, while the van is not in the yard. No such luck. The big branch that fell down has left a bald spot in the tree, so the winds can get through it now without more dropping branches...but we live in hope.
All that was done here, was very little. I slow cooked a leg of lamb and that will give us a few no worries meals. The veggies were delicious.
nighty night xxx
Crickeys, I'm having enough trouble walking and handling stairs, running has been out of the question for a very long timedream4red wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 1:13 am Dot, naughty sending the poofs off![]()
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Enjoy your time in the warm bus, hoping the painting is going well. xxxx
Terry, yes I agree with you. I plan on ringing both the insurer (APIA) and the caravan place tomorrow. I will start with the insurer and go from there. We don't really need the van for a couple more weeks, but it has gone way too long for us to be happy with the lack of service. On Monday the van company claimed to be having trouble getting a wheel that matched the other side. We have already had that problem, to the point where the tyre company took the wheel off the spare tyre and used it's wheel for the van. That wheel has gone off into the marshes and bogs at Hexham, so we have no chance of recovering the very same wheel. I gave the caravan mob permission to buy a wheel that is similar to the other side. It's a single axle van. How often would I be looking at both wheels to compare them at once? We are both in the realms of just being pissed off with the whole thing.
Today we went to visit the knee surgeon at Gosford. She agrees with the physio, that the bones are all in the right places and the problem is tendonitis that has been a long running pain in the knee. She gave the suggestion to use a more gentle exercise and to use good old voltarin cream when in pain. I think I should buy shares in that company. Voltarin has been in our cupboards for a very long time and whenever it has been needed it has saved lives.
We had a late pub lunch after the seeing the doc. That was yummo and then on the way home, we called into aldi. Apart from the weather still being icy, we have had a reasonably useful day.
night all xxx