Hi! Hope to soon be a motorhome owning mostly wild camper (ABSOLUTE noob).

[r4dent]

If you were to give an indication of your whereabouts, and then ask if there’s someone available to assist you to have a look around, for the cost of a few beer vouchers, it may help your peace of mind.

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Again without rivalling War and Peace I am now post divorce, selling my now too big house with zero commitments or (thankfully) dependents here in my home town just outside Birmingham, and am utterly burnt out of the career in IT that I sort of 'chose' due to having no clue what I wanted to do.

 

[liz]

Hi all, I figured I'd lurked here long enough and even worse learnt a LOT from the forums and I mean proper *Lived Experience* from clearly very decent, kind people with ZERO agendas or products to try and flog. To try and be short which is not at all a skill I possess - I absolutely LOVE these kind of communities that are just full of people who want to help, it's awesome so thank you up front!!

I've always had a fascination with smaller or 'Tiny Homes' is I believe the latest buzz word BS. A perk of my dad working for an American owned car dealership meant we as a family got to borrow a US motorhome owned by the American franchise owner whom dad worked for, thus began my obsession with Motorhomes!! (Rather oddly..maybe, but camper and caravans and tents do nothing at all for me, but put an engine on the front of that caravan.....ohhh my).

Again without rivalling War and Peace I am now post divorce, selling my now too big house with zero commitments or (thankfully) dependents here in my home town just outside Birmingham, and am utterly burnt out of the career in IT that I sort of 'chose' due to having no clue what I wanted to do.

So with still no clue I intend to buy a used motorhome and tour at least the UK and maybe some of Europe to firstly meet people and see the amazing spaces in this lovely country and maybe I'll get lucky and find a clue to what I want to do to earn money, where and if I'm incredibly lucky maybe even someone looking to share my adventures! (SO not going to happen!!).

A bit TMI but I've spent too long NOT talking about mental health, a recent bereavement has shown me just how wrong this is. In as short as I can this 'Change EVERYTHING!!' approach of mine does have an additional hope attached. I've had some very rough experience with anxiety and depression, and after who knows how many hours and days and TEN different SSRI/SNRI and even an old Tricyclic Anti-Depressant over years and years that at best did nothing and at worst made me very ill, it seems our dear NHS has very few options for my situation, all of which sound even more miserable than my current circumstances honestly.

I could give up and gods knows I can totally understand from a purely intellectual point why people do, but as I've always tried to encourage when speaking with folks who are really struggling - real severe depression can actually 'free you' I personally believe. I figure if you are having to seriously consider the most permanent of endings then you also can lay everything on the table as something that CAN be changed if you see? We often have many things or places or situations that, by default almost we think we cannot change. Without suggesting that being suicidal is anything but the most utter misery, I have no intention of belittling people who are in this situation, my suggestion of 'freedom' means that in desperate times you must consider changing ANYTHING, hence my change everything 'plan'.

I do really hope that makes some sense to somebody at least as I'm very aware my description is very poor at best, the concept is very hard to put into words online without sounding glib or dismissive and I hope that my caveats have clearly stayed that glib is the opposite of my views on mental health and suicide.

Ah, enough on that. Too much info I suspect but I'll leave it, it is honest at least.

I hope this is not a complete Mickey Take to ask in an introduction thread but if anyone knows any good Used Motorhome dealers in the Midlands that have stock below 25K I would absolutely LOVE to know please!

I think that without any real experience I have too much choice weirdly regarding what MH to buy. I now have time and I think being able to view first hand possible purchases would be incredibly helpful to decide my own important criteria in a MH.

Wow I have waffled on wayyy too much sorry lovely to meet you all

Kettle would be on in Whitley Bay if your passing by and good luck I finding your perfect MH ,best wishes Liz

 

[lurcherlad]

We have just purchased a MOHO from these guys, roadhouse leisure in Leicester and have to say they were great, they sell older ones upto 2010 ish and there not overpriced, we visited many times to view ours with loads of questions coming from a caravan to a motorhome and they always had time for us and wasn't pushy. Tony shows you around the vans and demonstrates how everything works. We thought they were brilliant with us and can't fault them.

 

[trevskoda]

Make sure it has solar panels and good batteries, you will require these to go of grid, good luck with the van and health to wear it out.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

I hope the OP is OK - it’s well over a year since he made his introduction, folks, and we haven’t heard back how he’s doing? Hope he found a suitable van.

 

[trevskoda]

All in some folks heads, dreams dreams dreams, dont understand folks who post and dont come back, im putting this in pet eratation thread.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

All in some folks heads, dreams dreams dreams, dont understand folks who post and dont come back, im putting this in pet eratation thread.

Put your bad spelling in there with it then Trev

 

[trevskoda]

Put your bad spelling in there with it then Trev

School and english was not my best thing, dislexic problem creeps in.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I know Trev, just extracting the Urine My English is passable but never ask me on maths, my dad was brilliant at maths but could never understood why I wasn't and he was a nasty bastard so I paid for my mistakes.

 

[trevskoda]

I know Trev, just extracting the Urine My English is passable but never ask me on maths, my dad was brilliant at maths but could never understood why I wasn't and he was a nasty bastard so I paid for my mistakes.

My last school did car maintenance,i ended up teaching the teacher some things, english not good maths ok, science i was tops one year over the whole school, my only claim to fame.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

If it wasn't for Mr Edward Campion my English teacher, I'd be crap at it like everything else, but the man was a genius he knew how to keep boys interested. He was a ex Japanese prisoner of war, and he knew that we were interested in him and the his history so he mixed it up and we learned.

 

[trevskoda]

If it wasn't for Mr Edward Campion my English teacher, I'd be crap at it like everything else, but the man was a genius he knew how to keep boys interested. He was a ex Japanese prisoner of war, and he knew that we were interested in him and the his history so he mixed it up and we learned.

My car maintenance teacher was a ex militery man and knew how to work the lads in the class, later on in life he was in the 30 vintage m cycle club with me.

 

[barryd]

If it wasn't for Mr Edward Campion my English teacher, I'd be crap at it like everything else, but the man was a genius he knew how to keep boys interested. He was a ex Japanese prisoner of war, and he knew that we were interested in him and the his history so he mixed it up and we learned.

My spelling, punctuation and grammar is often atrocious. In the early 70s some schools experimented with a scheme called RTA (Think thats what it was called) where infant school kids were taught to spell how words sounded. (sounds barmy right). I was one of them. I put it down to that. Its bizarre as even now ill forget how to spell really easy stuff. I did pass English O Level though and came runner up in a speech writing competition, (which really was as sh*t as it sounds).

One thing I discovered quite recently is that I have literally forgotten how to write. (with a pen). I had to fill out an actual manual form with an actual pen the other day. I always was a bit of a messy writer but it just looked like a five year old had done it and of course no spull Chucker!!

 

[Pudsey Bear]

My kids were taught on the Kicking K & the Curly C, it made no sense to me but the wife was a nursery nurse when we met and very well educated, she reckoned it might work, we divorced and lost contact, last time I saw my eldest she was a check out girl at Sainsburys

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I'm okay most of the time but I have the free version of Grammarly installed as an extension.

Grammarly

Grammarly’s free writing app will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful.

app.grammarly.com

 

[barryd]

I'm okay most of the time but I have the free version of Grammarly installed as an extension.

Grammarly

Grammarly’s free writing app will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful.

app.grammarly.com

Part of my problem is Im just lazy. See I just done it there!! There should be an apostrophe on "I'm".

I can pretty much type as fast as I can talk and I just cant be bothered to check it all and fix it. (done it again) Maybe its a social media thing.

I do wonder if we will eventually lose the ability to actually write though. As in with a pen. Maybe it will become a lost art.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I hope the OP is OK - it’s well over a year since he made his introduction, folks, and we haven’t heard back how he’s doing? Hope he found a suitable van.

Looked in a week ago, just keeping the thread warm til he comes back.

 

[merl]

Looked in a week ago, just keeping the thread warm til he comes back.

Kev, when you say "looked in a week ago" do you mean the OP? ( Maybe there's a way of tracking visitors to the site)?
I can't help but be slightly concerned when someone who has revealed mental health issues goes AWOL.

 

[Robmac]

Kev, when you say "looked in a week ago" do you mean the OP? ( Maybe there's a way of tracking visitors to the site)?
I can't help but be slightly concerned when someone who has revealed mental health issues goes AWOL.

Hover the cursor on his avatar Merl and it shows he was last active on 22 Jan so I'm guessing he has read this thread again.

 

[Robmac]

I hope the OP is OK - it’s well over a year since he made his introduction, folks, and we haven’t heard back how he’s doing? Hope he found a suitable van.

Over a month Marie?