I've just finished reading a book called Blood, Sweat and Tea, by Tom Reynolds (pseudonym).I enjoyed it very much. It was basically lots of blog posts written by a member of the London Ambulance Service but he no longer works for them and so has let his blog wind to a halt. I guess it would be impossible to write about your everyday work if that wasn't your everyday work. Sounds pretty obvious really but it leads me to wonder what to do about this one. We're not travelling about at the moment as we have jobs. I'm not going to blog about my job, or Mike's. I can't write about Mike's 'cos I'm not there and my new company wouldn't appreciate me blogging about my job. So what to do? This is where rollback comes in, as you can see this post is titled. I know I've nicked the name off a supermarket advertising campaign but why not rollback the blog to when we first started out? At the time I didn't blog about our experiences but wrote a newsletter about once a month. I've got the journals though so I'll look at those and this will remind me of our actions and my thoughts and feelings back in the early days.
We first set off on our full-timing adventure in our little house on wheels on December 27th 2002. Neither of us had owned a motorhome before, although Mike had had a caravan when his children were young, which was relevant for us starting out. He knew about chemicals for the toilet, grey water, driving abroad, leisure batteries and that's all I can think of off the top of my head. All I knew was that after a conversation with my friend Katrina, where she pointed out that I didn't want to be cold. I'm just rubbish at it. Fortunately our new CI Riviera 181 had a blown air gas central heating system and because Mike is allergic to cold wet climates in the winter we headed south anyway and bought a fan heater.
Now back to my new found blogging guru, Tom Reynolds. He updated his blog five times a week. I think this sets my bar pretty high. This poor blog gets neglected and will I be able to write often enough to keep my readers' interests alive? Well, I'll give it a go and throw in the occasional post concerning practical tips and Motorhome Lifer news.
Have a great week,
Ali and Mike
Oh, by the way, Mike has been up with D and V since 1.00 am, which clearly means I have too. (Awake that is, not suffering with his malaise.) The only thing he ate which I didn't was a sausage roll so I guess that could be the culprit. He's now feeling much better which is a relief, but it'll be early nights all round tonight. I also feel a bit responsible because I bought him the sausage roll, but how were we to know? These bugs don't advertise themselves do they?
We first set off on our full-timing adventure in our little house on wheels on December 27th 2002. Neither of us had owned a motorhome before, although Mike had had a caravan when his children were young, which was relevant for us starting out. He knew about chemicals for the toilet, grey water, driving abroad, leisure batteries and that's all I can think of off the top of my head. All I knew was that after a conversation with my friend Katrina, where she pointed out that I didn't want to be cold. I'm just rubbish at it. Fortunately our new CI Riviera 181 had a blown air gas central heating system and because Mike is allergic to cold wet climates in the winter we headed south anyway and bought a fan heater.
Now back to my new found blogging guru, Tom Reynolds. He updated his blog five times a week. I think this sets my bar pretty high. This poor blog gets neglected and will I be able to write often enough to keep my readers' interests alive? Well, I'll give it a go and throw in the occasional post concerning practical tips and Motorhome Lifer news.
Have a great week,
Ali and Mike
Oh, by the way, Mike has been up with D and V since 1.00 am, which clearly means I have too. (Awake that is, not suffering with his malaise.) The only thing he ate which I didn't was a sausage roll so I guess that could be the culprit. He's now feeling much better which is a relief, but it'll be early nights all round tonight. I also feel a bit responsible because I bought him the sausage roll, but how were we to know? These bugs don't advertise themselves do they?
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