Follow the blog and anyone knows that although british I spend not much time in England as the disruption makes any functioning work impossible. I would describe it as an epidemic of ‘poor me’ stupidity and a dash of the envies…
So as I sit on a dismal rainy day in a b and b looking at the mizzle and trying not to think too carefully about the preceeding three days. I realise that the utter disregards that some people have for the welfare and safety of others that they are contracted to provide it mind blowing.
Lets just remind 72 hours. Packed for a ten week work and leisure stay in England and arriving at the ferry port. The trip passes fairly uneventfully. Then I head to the car decks and I clamber into Rupert… ( if you follow this you know that he is my car )
He requires a brake pedal depression to start engine. So as literally touch the brake. Up comes the warning light ‘No Brake fluid’
Ok so it was full six hours before and working perfectly regularly serviced and checked over just three months before.
There is mopped fluid when I get out of the car by the nearside rear wheel, but the mopping is extensive. No one has mention a large flammable liquid leak to me. Staff are stood around and I gesture there is a problem and I a told I have to drive off of the ship ‘no brakes’
These series of stupid dangerous reckless decision by the staff mean that I literally have to drive with hand brake on just in case. I pull around to the first space. Staff come over I explain that it is suspicious and they completely disregard me. The first answer was ‘I hope you have recovery for that ?’ ( i know someone so that is why I travel to Portsmouth }
I point out my concerns and without allowing the removal of the spare wheel, the staff lie that it is the drive shaft leaking. I check myself and the fluid is covering the upper brake pipe and everything below it. The staff then say there is corrosion and the pipe is metal with a plastic coating although a small amounts of dirt there is no visible break in the line to cause the entire loss of the fluid
Recovery is arranged and the staff tell the driver it is corrosion.
Then Portsmouth the island city shows it true bravery. One guy quietly having a cigarette says to me ‘ the only way that happened is someone laid on the floor under wheel and damaging the line with a tool. Honestly score 10/10
Brittany Ferries staff are so difficult and so utterly uninterested in the safety issue of not dealing with a flammable liquid spill, the fire risks and then lying about the cause.
So a stay in a premier inn and garage hands me the old pipe, a clean cut near the join to the brake. A tool required
I am delayed for first appointment 24 hours and then the fun begins.. I have booked a homestay. Before booking I send over all my details and blog so the person has a chance to make an informed decision about a ten week housemate.. She is cool and says yes we agree checkin time and I arrive…
The description of the place it is fair to say bears the appearance of colourful pagan barn conversion. Pretty but cluttered.
So I am welcomed shown the place and the room and we sit to have tea we swap the usual domestic violence stories that always happen when people have read the blog, then suddenly she announce that she manifests animals and a crow… I stay quite quiet, an area of my expertise, Then at 8pm as I start to get ready to bring in bags and cases. She suddenly says ‘I dont know if I want you to stay’ the vlogging and stories. I am shocked as I had given so much notice and detail for the booking.
I am left with no where to stay in the middle of nowhere,
As I sit typing this in a b and b hotel I am actually bloody angry at the total disregard for safety and responsibilities of fully functioning adults…
But there we are the usual careless disregard shown by the minority of people who have zero regard for others… No wonder so many children are killed and missing in the country…