We're off to the north of England on Sunday, for a trip up to York, via a stopover at the Caravan Club at Peterborough.
Plans at the moment are to take a look at the Swift factory in E Yorkshire, and to visit converter Wellhouse Leisure in sunny Huddersfield!
Thansk to my new T Mobile thingy, I should be able to keep in touch!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
With the mighty Caravan Club . . .
Spent a couple of nights with the mighty Caravan Club at their new site at the New Forest on Thursday and Friday gone by - very smart, let me tell you.
There's even plug-in TV booster points, for which we bought a new cable, and wi-fi - but that's amazingly expensive - a fiver for an hour and around £30 for a week - I'd much rather use my £15 a month T-mobile phone modem USB plug-in, which works okay (at dial-up speed) there, and at full broadband speed in more favoured locations!
There's even plug-in TV booster points, for which we bought a new cable, and wi-fi - but that's amazingly expensive - a fiver for an hour and around £30 for a week - I'd much rather use my £15 a month T-mobile phone modem USB plug-in, which works okay (at dial-up speed) there, and at full broadband speed in more favoured locations!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Big time stuff . .
. . . with the mighty Caravan Club: Dot and I are off tomorrow to Beaulieu in Hampshire, for the Caravan Club awards evening - there's a posh dinner and an awards ceremony, where member and media awards are handed out. The feed is on Friday night, but we're going on Thursday to have a nice day at the site on Friday - hope the weather is good.
We're also taking Giles Meehan with us, who is becoming our regular away-day cameraman, and he and I are probably going on the Bedfordshire on the Saturday, to film motorboat racing for UK Boating.
But as far as the Caravan Club goes, it'd be nice if TCC could get a little award of some sort, gov.
We're also taking Giles Meehan with us, who is becoming our regular away-day cameraman, and he and I are probably going on the Bedfordshire on the Saturday, to film motorboat racing for UK Boating.
But as far as the Caravan Club goes, it'd be nice if TCC could get a little award of some sort, gov.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Different kinds of shows?
One of the things that's interested me about the last show is how people's views vary - particularly when you look at the split between long-term TCC viewers and newbies.
I'v now produced, I think around 45 (yes, 45!) half-hour caravanning shows, mostly with all new content, although by my reckoning that 22 hours includes around 4 hours (total) repeated material, spread across several winter shows.
The programmes have settled down into a groove which lets me produce material that works for me, and that seems to work for most of our viewers - but the biggest problem we have is with new viewers, who come along, watch one programme that works in the context of the series, but maybe doesn't work as well on its own. They then make what I think are out-dated suggestions, essentially because they haven't watched any other shows in the series!
The reality of course, is that in the 40-odd programmes we've covered almost everything - and some in real depth, others in less depth.
So in future, whensomeone comes along and says whatever, I think my response will be "if you've only watched one show, watch more. Don't look at us like ordinary entertainment TV - we ain't!"
I'v now produced, I think around 45 (yes, 45!) half-hour caravanning shows, mostly with all new content, although by my reckoning that 22 hours includes around 4 hours (total) repeated material, spread across several winter shows.
The programmes have settled down into a groove which lets me produce material that works for me, and that seems to work for most of our viewers - but the biggest problem we have is with new viewers, who come along, watch one programme that works in the context of the series, but maybe doesn't work as well on its own. They then make what I think are out-dated suggestions, essentially because they haven't watched any other shows in the series!
The reality of course, is that in the 40-odd programmes we've covered almost everything - and some in real depth, others in less depth.
So in future, whensomeone comes along and says whatever, I think my response will be "if you've only watched one show, watch more. Don't look at us like ordinary entertainment TV - we ain't!"
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
What planet are you from again?
Sometimes, you get really odd phone calls . . .
Now, I'm not particularly shy - so anyone with a little sense can find a contact number for the Caravan Channel, and ring it.
Fine so far.
I also don't have a big problem with people liking or not liking the shows we make. If you like them, that's really great. If you don't, that's fine, too - turn over, watch something that you do like.
But I do have a problem when people ring to say "Your show was rubbish . . " - no sensible criticism, no discussion, just to have a go. So when this geezer rung to do that, I hung.
What an idiot. If you don't like something, watch something else!
Now, I'm not particularly shy - so anyone with a little sense can find a contact number for the Caravan Channel, and ring it.
Fine so far.
I also don't have a big problem with people liking or not liking the shows we make. If you like them, that's really great. If you don't, that's fine, too - turn over, watch something that you do like.
But I do have a problem when people ring to say "Your show was rubbish . . " - no sensible criticism, no discussion, just to have a go. So when this geezer rung to do that, I hung.
What an idiot. If you don't like something, watch something else!
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