Left the beautifully secluded and green Veerse Gat campsite this morning, bidding goodbye to Marie and Andrew and their tent-boxed Defender, and drove to Lianne’s sister’s place in Belgium.
On arrival, I came across a whole new area of van maintenance. The bench seats in the caravan are folded up vertically for travel ( so we can fit the bikes in), and on trying to reset them to the bed configuration, I found a certain amount of undesirable floppiness ( the old problem). On closer inspection, I could see that half of the screws meant to secure the hinges of the aluminium seat frame were missing or very loose.
2 spares were located in the jamjar which L uses to store small BDOs (*) we have found through the ages, and I made creative use of some double sided sticky pads to keep one in a hole which is now mysteriously too wide for it. I’m sure it will be fine. Probably. But I’m sleeping on the other side just in case.
(*) Bits Dropping Off – often these are screws , bolts, nuts, but sometimes we find excitingly unidentifiable bits that seem important . We harvest them from the floor, and they go into the transplant jar under the cooker for future reference. It’s jolly exciting when you eventually find out where they fit.
I agree, it is very satisfying when you find a home for a mysterious BDO. I’m sure I’ve got some screws like that lurking in the garage.