LRW Show at Eastnor

We spent the weekend at the LRW show at Eastnor Castle. This was really our final camping trip before we leave so we wanted to test everything and make sure the packing and storage systems work for us. But as with all Landy shows we ended up spending the whole weekend either drunk, socialising, or taking part in the club challenges!!
But I did manage to get around to changing the rear antiroll bar balljoints and bushes as well as change the rear shock absorbers. Jen gave me a hand doing the shocks... shes a hands-on type'a girl, ya know! ;-)

We also met up with Paul and the Myway roof tent chaps. We've been moaning about the ladder on our tent for quite a while... well' since we got the tent actually! It's a bit bendy, a bit wobbly and not really man enough to cope with me and Jen climbing up and down it everyday for several months, so we started looking at replacement ladders. The Howling Moon ladder was the first that sprung to mind, nice and sturdy, but its a bit on the big side. Anyway, after mentioning to Paul at Myway that our ladder was rubbish he gave us a new one... just like that! It's the same design, but much more chunky and sturdy, and made from aluminium rather than super expensive stalnless steel! :-)
So we are how happy. All I have to do now is make some extensions for the new ladder as it's a bit short for a Defender... Doh!

The water tank we got from Boab made life so much easier... no more having to worry about filling up jerry cans, then having to lift them up to the roof! The water tastes a bit funny, but you get used to it.

May have to get some practice in on the Coleman stove we have. We gave up with it in the end and ate pasties from the fridge instead! everything thing I did went wrong on Sunday morning... I fancied a bacon butty. Got the cooker out (Really need to get a cooker shelf sorted on the back door now!!) Couldn't find anywhere to set it up out of th wind. When I found a non windy place, I went through the start-up procedure only to find that out soooper-doooper "turbo flame" lighter has decided to loose all its fuel! So I eventually found a smoker who lent me their lighter. Got the stove lit, put the frying pan on, then the flame went out. Do'h... borrow lighter again. Stove won't light... Double D'oh... out of fuel! Gave up and had weetabix for breakfast instead! Doing all this with a hangover is a major chore!