The Caravan Insurance season started earlier than ever, birthdays came and went, trips away vanished into distant memories and suddenly it is the last day of the month.

Tomorrow see’s us start March 2011 and we are already 3 months into the new year.

Maybe we will see a little less rain and cold next month – although that is always quite unlikely in the UK!

Todays sees a day of catching up on a week out of the office and boy does that take some catching up! Lots of meetings and the time continues to fly by.

I hope you enjoyed your half term break if you got away, don’t forget to come onto the blog and tell us all about it, good or bad!

Have a good day.

Richard

The beginning of the year can be fairly gloomy and depressing, with the excitement of Christmas over and weeks of cold, wintry weather ahead. The subject of UK caravan insurance may not immediately appear to be one that is likely to dispel that gloom but it may be a good time of year to think about it.

Once the spring arrives, many of us may be far more focused on using our caravans than thinking about the paperwork behind them, so the winter months can perhaps be put to good use in that respect.

What is there to think about in terms of UK caravan insurance?

Perhaps the obvious thing is to take the opportunity to review your current insurance position. Even if it is not time for your annual renewal, perhaps you should be asking yourself questions such as:

• is your existing policy still providing you with a breadth and depth of cover that is competitive when viewed against other options in the marketplace;
• is your caravan and the way you use it, still in conformance with the terms and conditions of your caravan insurance policy (e.g. are you now using it to an annual mileage level that exceeds the level covered by your policy);
• have you recently overhauled or enhanced your caravan, thereby increasing its value or the value of its contents, to an extent that may make your current cover inadequate;
• have you done anything relating to the site of your caravan that may put your cover at risk (e.g. moving it to a site with a known history of flooding, where such risk is specifically excluded from cover by your policy);
• inevitably, the obvious question – is your existing policy still cost-effective when compared to other options?

If you ask these questions, you may well come to conclusion that your existing caravan insurance policy is providing you with excellent, entirely suitable and cost-effective cover.

If, on the other hand, you reach a different conclusion, then it might be time to do something about it.

Being realistic, once the season is in full swing, many caravanners may not feel that they have sufficient time to ask questions of their current UK caravan insurance. So during these dark and dreary nights before the season starts, we may now have something to do!

What a mad week. The days flew by and ended with a trip to Nottingham on Thursday where I could not even venture out in the evening as I had spent the day being sick – these bugs are more cantagious than ever I can tell you.

My recovery has been slower than expected – must be an age thing!!

Friday saw another acupuncture session for my knee – something is making a difference, not sure if it is the needles or the actual fear of them!

Yesterday, Saturday, saw me able to pick up my new car, a shiny white Ford Focus RS. A day later I remain lost for words so lets just say that I remain very happy with it.

Avril Lavigne remains the current music of choice, I have been listening to a bit of Phil Collins but not the usual over dose. I must be having a change of taste!

I have downloaded her new single, What the hell, and I must admit it is really good.

Roll on the new album is all I can say!

Well, back to trying to entertain one healthy child and one ill child  - I have even mowed the lawn today. Cold but fun!

Have a good rest of your day.

Richard

Mr N from Hampshire wrote:

“All round good service, very happy, thankyou.”

Dear All

Yesterday we went and visited the Caravan and Boat Show at the NEC in Birmingham and was suprised that it seemed fairly quiet, I don’t if the fact that it was a Wednesday had an impact but then it was half term?

Anyway one thing that struck me is the number of Park Homes at the show, this is clearly a growing market and we went into a few of the Caravans and as usual were very impressed. It was worth going despite the traffic problems there and back, they seem to do loads of work at the same time don’t they?

Today Catherine and Sophie are visiting the show, I am sure they will give their views on this forum in due course.

Have a great day

Mike