A Bit Of A Nightmare

I had hoped by now to have been writing this blog under the Spanish sun. Unfortuntely, things turned out rather differently. We set off three weeks ago, having sold our house. We'd had a panic in the last few days, ebcause we were stuck in the house due to the snow. In the last 24 hours before we had to get out of the house we were frantically trying to load up our personal possessions into the carvan we had bought for the purpose of transporting them, and ourselves down to Spain. We werre then frantically unpacking stuff, and trying to relocate it with relatives for fear we were overloading it. Even firt thing on the morning we set off we were moving stuff, and ended up having to get hold of a removal comppany to put things into storage. Its amazing how much stuff you accumulate.

The weather had just about enough cleared to be able to drag the caravan up the hill on, which our house was situated, and we set off reasonably well. We'd just refuelled on the M6 Toll, and started off again hen we heard a bang that we thought was a stone flirting up in the wheel arch. It seems to have been one of the caravan tires hitting some debris on the road, and getting punctured. Shortly, afterwards, the carvan began to snake, and althougbh we had used a stabiliser bar, within seconds it was swinging about uncontrollably, before jack-knifing and spinning the car round 180 degrees. Fortunately, there was nothing else on the road, and the caravan embedded itself in an uphill embankment, which brought it to a halt, and prevented it from overturning itself and us. It was knackered, but did surprsingly little damage to the car.

In short, we ended up having to stay here to sort things out, and in the meantime found ourselves homeless. That has been an experience and a half, about which I will blog in more detail at a later date. For the last three weeks we have been moving from one temporary accommodation to another, hence tghee lack of blogs, or comments elsewhere. We are moving into a permanent address tomorrow, but it will take some time to install Internet access. Something approaching a return to normal service will then be resumed as and when, including a fuller account.