First Camp

After a false start we arrived at Speyside yesterday at about 1730. why the false start, well I loaded the motorhome home up got Tara my dog on board then got Sheila comfortable, I said after all the rushing about I hope she starts. I turned the key, click, turned again click, "whats up Sheila asked", Flat battery I replied, what are we going to do she asked, I said I will get you and Tara back inside, can you charge it she asked. yes but it could take a long time, so I shall drive to Elgin in the car to buy a new battery, this I did a couple of hours later we were on the road to our shake down camp.
The idea of the shake down camp was to try everything out, I got out our brand new orange hook up cable, no good it didn't fit, lucky I had the previous owners old one which fitted, got connected turned the switches on, ok, right lets get a cup of tea on, went to fill kettle on after switching on water pump, nothing happened pump running just air coming out, then a little trickle of water, with white bits and it stank rotten. Yes I should have known to check the water, before I left, The previous owner had told me the water tanks were full, but I didn't check. Lesson learnt, it will not happen again when we get home on Thursday first job is to flush water tank taps out etc.
Lucky for me I had bought a spare five gallon water jerrycan, why lucky i was going to leave it behind to make space but I changed my mind.
Next job make a cup of tea, filled the electric kettle up with lovely fresh water, turned the kettle on no light, oh no no electric this is getting worse I checked the mains switches yes all on ok did the earth reset button yes ok. Over to see the site manager who got his tool kit and over he came, Sheila was laughing she said we have electricity, I said how, she replied you forgot to turn the plug the kettle was plugged into.
So after a lot of anxiety we had a nice cup of tea.