Mind your step
Be careful in this wet weather when you get out of your van onto the step!
Two weeks ago our Fiamma step decided to give me flying lessons. :eek: Not good as now sitting here with broken wrist / hand which I had to have operated on and pins etc put in it.
It wasn't the step that was slippery but the ground underneath the step. It was a hardstanding with the hexagonal stuff on it that the grass still grows through. The type they have at C&CC sites. I stood on step - it went one way and I went the other, flew through the air and landed on my side.
In trying to avoid the wet grass we moved the van further forward than usual so we wouldn't keep stepping on it and churning it up making it muddy. It poured with rain and when it stopped I got out of van to go to the loo and never gave it a thought that it might be slippery. There are holes in the feet of the step which once before we put a couple of pegs in so it didn't move. Didn't think of doing that this time!
The warden was so helpful (it was late at night) and rang for an ambulance which then carted me off to hospital. He was also very kind to Roger when he finally arrived back at the site at 6:00am Sunday morning.
So no more winter camping at the moment for us as I am signed off work for 8 weeks and Christmas is officially cancelled in our house.
I am trying very hard to keep my sense of humour.
Two weeks ago our Fiamma step decided to give me flying lessons. :eek: Not good as now sitting here with broken wrist / hand which I had to have operated on and pins etc put in it.
It wasn't the step that was slippery but the ground underneath the step. It was a hardstanding with the hexagonal stuff on it that the grass still grows through. The type they have at C&CC sites. I stood on step - it went one way and I went the other, flew through the air and landed on my side.
In trying to avoid the wet grass we moved the van further forward than usual so we wouldn't keep stepping on it and churning it up making it muddy. It poured with rain and when it stopped I got out of van to go to the loo and never gave it a thought that it might be slippery. There are holes in the feet of the step which once before we put a couple of pegs in so it didn't move. Didn't think of doing that this time!
The warden was so helpful (it was late at night) and rang for an ambulance which then carted me off to hospital. He was also very kind to Roger when he finally arrived back at the site at 6:00am Sunday morning.
So no more winter camping at the moment for us as I am signed off work for 8 weeks and Christmas is officially cancelled in our house.
I am trying very hard to keep my sense of humour.
;) 
Comment