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Edinburgh festival: The Caravan

December 23, 2008 | Author
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

3 out of 5

We are perched on a faded, pink velveteen sofa in a rickety caravan, Martha Carney is talking on the radio and Valerie is making us a cup of tea. She is one of the hundreds of people left homeless after last summer’s severe downpours in England. Valerie was told that she would be living in this cramped space for 10 weeks; she’s been here for 10 months, along with three other family members and a dog.

Look Left Look Right’s new verbatim show offers a glimpse into the lives of a dozen or so deluged householders from flood-hit towns who are still facing headaches over repairs and insurance estimates.

They pass around the biscuits, show us photographs of their waterlogged villages and tell us their stories. Zog had bought his dream house but now he “couldn’t give it away to a family of mermaids”. Gavin remembers the wallpaper peeling off the walls in his home, and the sweaty-sock smell left by the muddy water.

Every time a performer pops into the caravan, they turn the page on a calendar that gives us the name and occupation of the person we’re listening to. Clocking in at a mere 30 minutes, this bit of documentary theatre may not be as powerful as other Fringe shows – such as the campaigning Deep Cut and the admirably complex Motherland – but it is earnest, engaging and often a ticklish pleasure.

These tales of people let down by councils, insurance companies and unscrupulous developers are fringed with hope as well as exasperation. Sue and Jonathan from Whitney have become experts on the Gulf stream; two women natter gleefully about how some things have changed for the better in their village since the flood. The show also has a feeling for how familiarity breeds warmth – most touchingly, in the relationship between a couple who turn to each other and smilingly say: “It’s amazing we’re still together isn’t it?”

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Caravans And The Cold

October 31, 2008 | Author

The only problem that I have with Caravans is the cold Weather. I don’t know if it’s just me but the caravan was never designed for all year round use.

The cold weather seems to be upon us once again, and I have been down to the van and let the water out, replenished the damp stuff and changed the fuel cell on the EFOY. I hope that this will keep the battery up over the winter as it’s the first winter Ive had it.

Well will have to take a look in a few weeks and see how things are getting on.

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Caravan Insurance Article

October 25, 2008 | Author

Do you think about car insurance and household insurance, well if you do, then good for you? You are protected, however, do you go on holiday in a mobile home, do you know that you will need some sort of insurance on that mobile home? Well it is true, everything that you own has to be insured, not because it is the law, but because it will do you good, because anything that you own physically can get stolen, or can get broken. So you will have to look into some sort of caravan insurance. We all know that anything can happen anywhere, now let us take this example for instance. You are traveling down the road, you have your family in the car and your caravan towing at the back, you are all happy and excited and everything is going well. Until, suddenly, as you cross over the intersection you are hit by another car crossing illegally in the other direction, now we all know that it is not your fault, but there is nothing you can do because the other driver just keeps driving on. Now, no one inside the car with you got hurt, luckily, but the caravan at the back is a right off, because the person drove into that you see. So you think, well that is fine, and you go no your way, until you remember that you do not have any insurance on your caravan.

What do you do then, well there is nothing you can do really, beside from asking the insurance company to pay out anyway. Well let me tell you something, you can call them until you are blue in the face, they will not pay out for something that is not under their banner, even if it was not your fault. It is just not done, and who is to blame that the caravan was not insured in the first place? Well this seem to be a topic that your wife will have your ear for, because she did tell you to take the full comprehensive cover, even though it is a bit more expensive. However, you thought that you could save a bit of cash with the other one. Well no your have to pay for a new caravan, or your family will have to sleep in a rental caravan until you can get the rest of everything sorted out, and who know what sort of germs are living in those rentals?

So now we can all see that caravan insurance is a must, we all know that the above example is just but one, there could be a fire, while you are all at the seas side, or at the pool, there could be an earthquake, or something like that, and you will be ever so happy if you know that you have caravan insurance, so get it today, and sleep a bit better tomorrow, because anything can happen anywhere at any time, it is up to you to be protected.

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Liam Derbyshire is author of this article on Caravan Insurance. Find more information about Caravan Insurance here. Related Blogs

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40 years with the same company

September 17, 2008 | Author
40 Years with same company

40 Years with same company

A MAN who started his career building special showman’s caravans for circus performers is celebrating 40 years with motorhome and caravan sales company Salop Leisure.

Service engineer Evan Capes started working at M. R. Pascalls Ltd at Oakengates before moving to Salop Leisure when workmate Geoffrey Betts and his wife Marjorie bought Salop Leisure at Meole Brace, Shrewsbury.

Forty years on and Mr Capes now travels in excess of 30,000 miles a year servicing and repairing caravan holiday homes across Mid Wales and the Heart of England.

Reflecting on his career, he said: “During my first five or six years building showman’s caravans we often had circus people and animals around. If there were repairs to be done to a showman’s caravan the circus people would live in another of their caravans while we were doing the work in the workshop.

“They would be practising their acts, like walking the tightrope and feeding the lions in the rear yard while we worked.

“I also made special exhibition units for banks and building societies and mobile incident rooms for the police. When I joined Salop Leisure, I worked mostly on repairs and I am still repairing caravans 40 year later.

“Modern caravans with their central heating, double glazing and all mod cons are phenomenal, totally unrecognisable from the early models that I worked on.”

Salop Leisure Chairman Tony Bywater commented: “Forty years’ service to the same company is a remarkable achievement It has been a pleasure and privilege to work alongside him for most of those 40 years.”

Mr Capes (seated in the picture) celebrated his 40 years’ service with a special anniversary cake presented to him by Salop Leisure directors Dylan Roberts, Tony Bywater and Mark Bebb.

Thanks to Out & About Live for this news item.

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