Another early start

I woke up yet again in the early hours and couldn’t get back to sleep and I can’t just lie there tossing and turning when I’ve got things to do. So I was up again before dawn and after a wash, shave and an early light breakfast I decided to tackle an essential job on the caravan, namely sealing the toilet compartment with waterproof white silicone sealant.

It has to be done because even if I can’t take a shower in there for the moment (the water heater still hasn’t arrived and the supplier who says it’s been delivered hasn’t replied to my message of a few days ago), in a few days time I’ll be washing, shaving etc in there and water is bound to be splashed around, in which case any nooks and crannies that it might get into have to be sealed up. I started the job at around 7.00am and was all done by 8.30am when the guys arrived to continue the work they’re doing to bury my and my neighbour’s electrical cables and was very pleased with the results.

When I got the caravan some idiot had ‘sealed’ the toilet with black gunge that was a completely solid plastic and consequently wasn’t a sealer at all. I had to strip it out doing as little damage as possible, and they’d also ripped out what was probably a perfectly serviceable Thetford cassette toilet and installed a ghastly cupboard unit in its place which also had to be removed.

Here are some shots that I took before I started working on it.

And here are some shots that I took earlier this morning of the finished job.

So at least I’ll have a working toilet and bathroom when I move into the caravan on my land at Fleurac shortly. Depending on what happens (or not) over the next few days I may have neither electricity (in which case I’ll have to get my generator going) nor water (I’ll have to buy a camping water carrier) but at least I’ll be able to have a wash and shave and retain some semblances of a civilised lifestyle before I sort out all my services 🙂