Murphy’s Law states “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”

And that’s why the fridge always runs out of gas in the middle of the night, sending off a beep, beep, beep and frightening you out of a deep sleep!

In 8 years of motorhome ownership the fridge has never run out of gas during the day but inevitably runs out in the deepest dark of the night. You are startled to wakefulness by the beeping of the fridge and that sets your heart racing.

Then there’s the usual discussion about who is going to get up and change the gas bottle over. I usually lose this one because we usually have the slide-out out and Richard can’t fit underneath it to access the gas bottle bin. So out of our nice warm bed, into jeans and my fire jacket, shoes on and torch in hand I set off into the cold and dark.

I have to get down on my knees and crawl under the slide-out to reach the gas bottle bin and it’s really a simple matter to turn the knob to the other gas bottle, turn off the empty gas bottle and turn on the full one. Then one has to crawl back out from under the slide-out, without banging your head on the edge and job is done.

It really only takes a couple of minutes but why does it always have to be in the middle of the night?