A Day of Mixed Feelings

It’s been a very emotional day for us.  Our lovely Waiouru was sold today and whilst we earnestly hope her new owners love her as much as we did both of us grieve for our loss.  Jan believes the five years we spent on board were some of the best in her life and it’s hard not to agree.  The canal community can best be described as a genuine caring community and we both miss it.
We treasure both our memories and photos and what great times we had!  But there is little point in spending all your time looking back and dwelling on the past.  That’s how you walk into lampposts!
One thing I have done is to change the blog banner to reflect our new direction and future. There are a few things on the ‘bucket list’ and time is starting to get tight.  Shortly I’ll commence the modifications to the 4x4 which I will include in the blog posts.  I’ve also started more detailed research into outback camper trailers.  The cheap trailers don’t meet my criteria and the expensive outback trailers are……… just too expensive.  My latest plan is to complete some major modifications to a basic Chinese manufactured 7x4 trailer thereby keeping the cost down.
This morning I checked the Araldite repairs to the damaged bread maker and everything looked fine.  Reassembling the appliance was considerably easier than disassembling it.  Obviously because I knew how it went back together!  The attempted repairs to the headphones hadn’t gone as well and consequentially I’ve done some further work on them.
There was yet another quick trip to the local hardware store for a further five 3 pin plugs.  these were fitted in the afternoon and completes the changeover from UK to AS plugs.