The twitter thread

Rochdale and Oldham RSPCA are taking a lot of the animals but don't have much experience with parrots, Daryl is back on the scene and they have just discovered a shed full of birds, breeding pairs of Macaws and other tropical birds. We are softie's Eilis but we love animals and if we can help we will. The tropical birds need warmth and will not survive if they are left without heat, it's going to be a long night as they are being looked at by vets at the moment. Will let you know what we end up with, we wont know for a few more hours.

well damn that sounds a lot more serious than i thought

take care loves

They thought that most of the animals had survived but a lot of smaller birds and animals haven't, over 60 chickens have been rescued and a lot of the baby rabbits, and all manner of small fury creatures are out too. Shortly after the Macaws and parrots were found the fire broke out again in the main building. There hasn't been time to get cages for all of the large birds because it was dangerous so they have been taken out in small carriers and a dog sanctuary at Bury has several large cages vacant that will do for now so that's another noisy journey for Daryl tonight. We will be taking some of the baby rabbits and small fury creatures to look after temporarily if they survive, because of the smoke inhalation some may not. The reptiles also didn't make it

People seem to shine the brightest in dark times and everyone who helped has been fantastic.

It's been a mammoth task for the emergency services .........they are amazing people.

May I qoute "People seem to shine the brightest in dark times and everyone who helped has been fantastic.

It's been a mammoth task for the emergency services .........they are amazing people."

It's not just the emergency services that are amazing people. Your a STAR!! <<(That's nearly a star).
Thank goodness for kind people with big hearts.

im a big softy when it comes to animals


anyway been up for an hour so far as like to say goodbye to my wife before she heads to work when I can, and its -3 outside , cars and dandy covered in heavy frost

wont see her till the back of 9pm tonight so its me and the girls.
going to pop out to overland caravans to have a look at their shop and see what they have in the way of security etc. and prices.
maybe a wee trip to yeomans outdoors as they have craghopper trousers on sale at the moment down from £40+ to £22.

might even try and get the front storage box off to start the rub down and re paint of the a frame.

naedoot wrote:im a big softy when it comes to animals


anyway been up for an hour so far as like to say goodbye to my wife before she heads to work when I can, and its -3 outside , cars and dandy covered in heavy frost

wont see her till the back of 9pm tonight so its me and the girls.
going to pop out to overland caravans to have a look at their shop and see what they have in the way of security etc. and prices.
maybe a wee trip to yeomans outdoors as they have craghopper trousers on sale at the moment down from £40+ to £22.

might even try and get the front storage box off to start the rub down and re paint of the a frame.

Fun day then,what did we do before we had dandys

well before the dandy

I would do similar but drag 2 of the three kids kicking and screaming ( the middle one is my pillion partner so no moaning from her) to the bike shops just to look at motorbikes and clothing.
would spend time with my bike.

We seem to have had the Dandy for ever but before that it was still camping shops trawling

It's a beautiful day today, cold but sunny If its the same where you are Tom with the help of the girls perhaps you can have your Dandy set up

Just had a nice one looked on my account at tesco and it said there was four vouchers we hadn't used 2 x £5 1 x£4 and 1 x £10 this isnt true but what the heck printed them of and used a £4 one earlier today.

well had to rush to the caravan place as my eldest is going to Loch Lomond with her pal to go for a walk.
managed to get pair of wheel chocks and a hitch lock for under £20 so cant complain.

going to get my middle daughter down the road before i forget what she looks like.

then hopefully tool time

trying to change the shower head and tubing (from shower body to shower head) and the nutcase of a previous owner put the shower outside the actual cubical and put the tube through the side of the door.

now i have managed to manhandle the old tube out from the door but cannot for the life of me get the new one in (sadly we don't have an emoticon for bloomin livid lol)

am now having a break and will try again in a minute

so not impressed with this idiot who did this - how am i supposed to have a shower for work tomorrow??

We have the box section coming this week to raise the suspension, I think a couple of dry sunny days got us giddy

There is now a forecast for snow and more snow so it will have to wait ........ again

thankfully no snow forecast here but some frosty nights

hope there isn't too much snow and you get the things done x

Dandy went up last night.

shopping list is growing

cord for roof supports, replacement bungee cord for round trailer cover, replacement roof cord as the blue in it is a bit thick and doesnt match - by all my reading so far it looks like 6mm is the way to go.

looks like a bit of tinkering with the fuse box ( see the early days thread)

some more practice on getting it up and down is required to refine it

6mm is the way to go Tom, Caths shopping list that will grow and grow too once you have the necessities sorted out

It's freezing, potato pie for tea tonight. It's one of those days where it looks like you could go out and do stuff in the garden or with the Dandy but it's not

There is snow forecast not just for us but for the East side of the country on Saturday.

We have another dilema, we have the box section to raise the suspension but when you take into consideration the suspension will also be taking the weight of this it may just be wiser to upgrade now, there will be a 3cm (30mm) shift on the position of the wheels if we go for 750kg so we are going to have to see if the wheel arches will allow for it, I think they will once the box section has lifted it a bit.

Any how we won't be doing much until the weather improves but would like to have everything ready as I think it will only be a day of a job.

had a quick run round the dandy today with the measuring tape - looks like i need roughly 10m of 6mm bungee or shock cord to replace old rope on the cover.

going to go for camo cord as it has brown and green in it and looks nice

just remembered going to the Scottish caravan and outdoor leisure show this weekend


might just see if I can nab a bargin there.

Just booked our first outing. And JUST realised as I started typing, we are setting off on April Fools Day lol.

Going to a Forest Holidays campsite in Snowdonia for the week. Can't wait. Getting all excited.....

Krist0n wrote:Just booked our first outing. And JUST realised as I started typing, we are setting off on April Fools Day lol.

Going to a Forest Holidays campsite in Snowdonia for the week. Can't wait. Getting all excited.....

Hope you have a great time

have fun at Hadrians wall

we will be celebrating our moddle daughters 10th birthday that day 1st April (explains a lot)
we should hopefully be away the weekend after that somewhere

Krist0n wrote:Just booked our first outing. And JUST realised as I started typing, we are setting off on April Fools Day lol.

Going to a Forest Holidays campsite in Snowdonia for the week. Can't wait. Getting all excited.....

It's now time to pack, unpack, then pack it all again just to make sure, then unpack it all to see if you can condense it, then pack again after you realise that you probably couldn't.

heehee!!! sounds like you speak from experience cazz.

cazz wrote:

Krist0n wrote:Just booked our first outing. And JUST realised as I started typing, we are setting off on April Fools Day lol.

Going to a Forest Holidays campsite in Snowdonia for the week. Can't wait. Getting all excited.....

It's now time to pack, unpack, then pack it all again just to make sure, then unpack it all to see if you can condense it, then pack again after you realise that you probably couldn't.

You'll see what she means soon enough .......... by the way wellies are a good place to put bottles of wine for travelling if you don't open the Dandy to put them in the fridge for the journey.

Was checking when my car was due for its third service and of course first mot, new it was march but didn't realise it was the meet weekend,any way with looking at it now have managed to get it booked in at the beginning of march. at the beginning of the winter i was giving consideration to winter tyres when i went into the fiat garage they had an offer of 4 wheels with winter tyres £265