256. Inverted

Nice

Talking to Uncle Richard this morning, the day of the F1 at Monaco he helpfully suggested that actually the week before, while the circuit was set up, they run historic F1 racing that would only be about fifty euro to enter. Frustratingly, I wish we had had that conversation a week before. I would love to have seen V ten and twelve NA cars and turbo F1 cars from the eighties. Could have gone with the family, would have been wonderful, dam it.

Split, obviously fabric getting weak

A couple of days ago I made the mistake of commenting how well our awning was lasting. On packing up yesterday Fyfe spotted that the roof was splitting. Don't really want to buy another at three hundred and ninety pounds however we probably have done the equivalent of twenty seven years camping for normal awning use of a month per year.

Not pretty

Today was the first day that this camp had space and arrived to find it deserted, just an english crew packing up. They had hired the entire camp for the period set up tents, erected a catering tent and sold space as a package to Brits coming over for the F1.

On setting up we discovered that we had lost part of the handle for our Aquaroll. This allowed me to brandish my new (crap) drill and effect the repair. Have ordered another to be sent to Holyport for Jacqueline to bring next month.

Elected not to pay the normal four euro fifty electricity tarif and try our stand alone electrical system. Possibly should have discussed it with the CEO prior. With our three kW inverter running the mains lighting, not using the toaster or inductive hob our two hundred and fifty Watt solar system should keep up fine, the greatest strain being charging multiple laptops and iPhones. As long as nothing is charged over eighty percent whereupon the load is high we should be fine. There are two one hundred amp hour deep cycle batteries, one for the twelve volt system, lights, water pump etc and one for the inverter that will power lights and the occasional burst of the nuke reheating coffees etc. The fridge is three way though it appears the twelve volt isn't connected. 

Roman was aching to play Monopoly so we had a great five person game with Fyfe as banker the only problem being that it ran through dinner till midnight. Have discovered that the way to keep peace was to slip Audrey and Roman a five hundred note whenever they were getting light. I knew the bank would be unsympathetic so it had to come from my reserves. Probably good practice for what lies ahead.

On going to bed, discovered that the fridge was off and we were out of gas. Jacqueline reiterated how awesome I was and I only had the choice to run the fridge on the inverter which I knew wouldn't work as the fridge is not particularly efficient. Woke before three with the inverter low voltage alarm sounding. This morning when I connected to mains there was still ice in the freezer so no harm done to Audrey's insulin in the fridge.