Winter checks

[Mortblanc]

OK SS do some math.

Take your age and subtract the number of active years you have left which contain the ability to drive a van or pull a caravan behind a vehicle.

Now subtract the number of vacation days you will actually take.

Now take the cost of the vehicle of trailer and divide it by that number.

Lets say you are 75 so you probably have 6 years of van pulling or camper driving left. Lets say 30 days of the year to really get out and about.

That is 180 days use total for the remainder of your lifetime, unless you want to live in the caravan like someone on a BBC report on elderly poverty.

Cost of a van or trailer is possibly 15k pounds for a usable one at the least. Probably closer to 20K if you get a nice one. You could get a cheap one and spend the difference fixing it up to usable condition.

My calculations show that each night spent in the camper or van costing 15K will set you back 83 pounds. Not counting maintenance, insurance, fuel, damage to a vehicle pulling a caravan always causes...

Take Wild thing to a good hotel and let someone else keep house and cook for her.

She'll love you mate and it will be cheaper!

Or just do like the rest of us and say you have the bug for a new toy!

BTW, I have a 27 foot "pull behind" that has not been out of the back garden parking area for 6 years! It is used as a guest house.