Early daze!

22/04/11

He is Scwaggy 1, she is Scwaggy 2 the pet is Chester Fester of Perth (WA) - a fat cat no less!!

Our first week of our first year as campsite courieres! Phew what happened? Quite a lot actually..................

First day for the season 2011 and our first client is a no show for a tent! good start............

We had an electrical storm and the Germans (Herman and his son - a giant!) were the first to complain, got it sorted straight away. No electricity in the mobile homes at bottom of the hill including ours.

A fridge not working, so we had to put the clients food into another unit, Scwaggy 1 pulled out the fridge and tried the sockets and fuses - no worky.. We had booked the day off to go to out for lunch, luckilly Jimlar the maintenance guy solved the problem it was a loose wire in the roof. Also the fire needed a new battery.

Our cat Chester cut his paw on Saturday night; we only arrived on the Thursday! He ended up at the vet on Monday morning and he had anesthetic and stitches. He couldn't walk for about 2 days because the vet had used an old fashioned anesthetic, scary stuff as he slept with his eyes open! We had to get up every 2 hours to give him water.

2 families arrived in 2 taxis, no car! Are you having a larf??? 4 kids with them they had never camped before and didn't know anything about how camping worked. We had to get them extra blankets, they had arrived with no provisions. Turned out to be ok and the enjoyed their stay.

Man U v Schalke footy match on, Herman and his Giant and several english in the bar watching the game, The Maestro does not like football, but we pressured him to put it on.

Had a nice free meal and bottle of wine in the restaurant for free gratis - brilliant stuff!!

Sink pipe came away water leaked under the sink - Scwaggy 1 to the rescue!

I gave dutch family bottle of wine when they shouldn't have and forgot to give English couple their wine on arrival, had to take it to them later that evening.

Went for a meal with other courriers.

Area Boss and The Storesman came to ours for a bbq

Heater guy and wife arrived – they thought they were going to be gassed to death in their beds due to bottled gas fire and boiler! they took a lot of convincing so we gave them a plug in electric heater. 

 Sat night – 30/04/11 went to see Heater guy (from Essex) on our evening walk by, he said he has seen a place called Sorf Samdi ( french=sauf samedi). We had to tell him him it means except on saturdays, but he wasn't convinced.

Mr and Mrs Numpty-prawns – we saw them night before they were due to check out on their departure the next morning. They thought they were staying an extra night, we had to tell them they had only booked 4 nights not 5! 

Really nice american/english family first thing he asked was if we knew the blackburn score.

Laura and mike came for a day and night on the motorbike.

Been speaking to lots of french campers – really nice and friendly. Fat man on his sun lounger enjoying his hols, he was a Jabba the Hutt and just about fitted onto the lounger.

Flipo the puppy went missing, but returned next day – naughty pup

Went to my son's parents for lunch and met them for the first time it was a great day and very haute cuisine!.

Went to Carrefour Scwaggy 1 forgot his wallet when we got to the check out, had to go to the car to get it!

Three in the morning and fast asleep – suddenly the toilet flushes! Agggghhhh burglars?? Quick send the wife to investigate the intruders (so brave am I). It was Chester the cat trying to get out of the bathroom window and had stood on the toilet flush button!! We thought that he may have gone around the bend and be swimming in ****!!!

Been at the bar every night although said we were not going to do that, spent a fortune so far , stayed in first time 30/04/11 with our own wine. Very cosy!

Fed and mothered the 2 montage lads.

The company trainer is to bring 2 couriers here for their training to see how we do things – perhaps we are doing it correct – or not! 'This is how NOT to be a courier'

Had to wait 1 week to receive our post from my mum from the UK.

A deer ran out in front of us in the car.

I slipped on the gravel and landed on my bum and bruised by hand.

Went to Le Bugue and it was heavenly to come back to our small site!