I have had a 'Change of Plan' forced upon me due to... I'm not sure if I should describe it as 'Un-foreseen circumstances' or 'Down-right stupidity' on my part.
You can decide.
I own a rather old but, extremely comfortable motor home which has all mod-cons and efficiently, if somewhat slowly, gets me to various locations giving me the freedom and flexibility I need (and saves me the expense of hotels)
A couple of nights ago I returned to the house having been further down the valley and parked the motor home in it's allotted space at the end of the garden, connected it up to the mains electricity supply and, as the weather hasn't been that great out here, turned on the electric night heater to keep things from getting damp.
An uneventful night and I retired to bed early as i was absolutely knackered. The following morning, I went to the motor home to retrieve all the bits and pieces I'd been too idle to remove the previous night. All looked fine until I unlocked the door and... The smell was overpowering. The inside was as black as a coal-cellar. What the hell has happened here?!

The smell was a combination of burnt plastic, wood and fabric. The blackness was soot and smoke damage. I climbed inside to find the night heater no longer existed as a night heater but was now a solidified pool of melted plastic with a small metal fan sitting on top of it. For what ever reason, the bloody thing had melted during the night, which has left me completely bemused as to how this could have happened as it was literally only a few months old, there is a hole in the floor, the cupboard to the side has been burned slightly, the bench seat on the opposite side is also slightly burned and the cushions on said seat are burned and melted. Thank goodness they build these things with fire resistant materials. I shudder to think what the consequences would have been had it caught alight fully and allowed to blaze away unchecked. It is parked directly beneath some trees that are in the garden and the fuel tank is half full. I can imagine the trees being set on fire and the fuel tank exploding, beyond that, I do not want to imagine what could have happened. I was pretty pee'd off but set about sorting this bloody mess out. I quickly discovered that this was a job far bigger than I could under-take my-self. The soot and smoke have penetrated just about every square inch of surface, every cupboard and drawer, into the shower unit. The clothing and bedding I left in there overnight are damaged, the on-board television is probably trashed, the CD disc-changer too but worse of all for me, I foolishly left two of my cameras in there and I know that they are trashed as the soot and smoke have worked their way inside the bodies and the sensors, being as sensitive as they are, are buggered by the acidity in the soot and smoke. This is not a good time to be terryodee. Particularly as the insurance has restrictions on the value of individual items, namely, £100 per item damaged, lost or stolen. needless to say the cameras are substantially more valuable than that. Gutted is what I am. Gutted.
I was, I have no shame in admitting, pretty bloody down and pretty bloody angry at myself. I had, reluctantly, no choice but to ask the insurance company for some help. Well, I can't really complain about the insurance companies response. They are dealing with it but, it is going to take some-time of that there is no doubt. The vehicle has now to be recovered back to the UK for repairs. The reason for this being, although I live in France, much of my official life is still in the UK and as such the motor-home was purchased in England, registered there, is maintained by a motor-home specialist there and is insured by an English insurance company. Which in some ways was a bad move as if I had French Insurance the premium would be about half of what I paid in England!
Oh well, I my-self am off to the UK in the next day or two as well, needs must and all that. So I am altering the remit for the redframe project slightly, it will include the Romney Marsh region of Kent England as that is the area I will be staying in for a couple of weeks or so. If it doesn't rain, It pours hard. Which leaves me wondering, Are there any glaciers left in the world?