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[VX1]

Hi everyone we have arrived back today from our weekend away to Charmouth in Devon. 5 miles from Lyme Regis. Well set out on Friday from home (Reading) at 10.45 am and arrived at the site at 13:45. The weather was good on the arrival, checked in and set out to find the pitching, found were to pitch and set out to erect the tent (Haven 800). This was not a challenging task as we had a practice run on setup a few weeks ago, We managed to erect the tent up in about 1hr and 15 mins, unloaded the car with the rest of the stuff and got the inside of the tent sorted. Finally got it all sorted and went down to see the old man (who came with us in his caravan) and had our dinner at his van. Anyway the night was drawing in and decided to call it a night, so walked back to the tent and got settled in for the night.

Woke up at about 4.00 am in the morning busting for a waz, got dressed as quickly as possible unzipped the tent door and WOW daylight, mist (low cloud) and still busting for a waz, couldn't hold it any longer so.............. (you can imagine the rest) didn't get to the toilet block, anyway then decided to sit in the car for a smoke and listen to the radio, so one did, finished the fag and then started to nod off. After about half an hour woke up and decided to go back into the tent to get some more sleep. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Snore, snore, snore. Anyway eventually woke up to the sound of (no not singing birds or alike) but to it p1ssing down with bloody RAIN   . Well this made me a bit dogged off as you can imagine, so one said " Thats ok it's just a passing shower" to cut a long story short IT DIDN'T STOP RAINING UNTIL THIS BLOODY MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!! . Thankfully we were leaving today so got up and started to pack up. Got everything packed away by 10.30 this morning and left for the trip home at 12.15 and arrived back home at 15.00. So the morel of this story is look at the weather before taking a trip away for the weekend camping and if going to be crap all weekend DON'T BOTHER GOING!!!!  

[Danny]

good weekend then?

have you got for sale signs in your car windows yet?

[VX1]

Is that for the car or tent?

[Chopsdad]

You just need to accept the British weather Paul.

We had a day of outdoor activities planned yesterday, my eldest went canoe rafting in the rain and then we spent the afternoon orienteering - and we didn't have too!

So today we got kitted out and went walking in local woods - even though the sky was black and as expected we got thoroughly soaked - a most excellent afternoon.

[VX1]

I accept the british weather thats not a problem, but when you can't do anything because its raining and especially when in a tent, thats when it becomes daunting and a disapointment to the whole family. But at least we survived the weekend and didn't go a rowing like some people have with all this rain with the floods all over the country. Lets stop and take a minute to reflect how lucky some of us people are and think about the unfortunate ones like my uncle who has been flooded out of his home who waded and battled through 5 feet of water and then swept away down the river AND swam back to get to the upstair's window, by ladder, to be able to get back down stairs to rescue his wife from 5 feet of river water that was in the kitchen and then get back upstairs and wait for the rescue team. I was told this by my father over the weekend and my uncle is 73 yrs old, now that is a fit old man who can do all that to save his wife from certain death. My hat goes off to my uncle   What a brave man he is. WELL DONE UNCLE JACK YOU ARE MY HERO FOR THE FAMILY  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Good on your Uncle..

Shame about your weekend..

[VX1]

Good on your Grandad..

Shame about your weekend..

I can only say one thing to you spongebob, and that is  SPECSAVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uncle, I say Uncle  man not GRANDAD    

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Imgetting too old to remember these days..Ameneded..

[VX1]

Imgetting too old to remember these days..Ameneded..

Thats ok. I know how you oldies are at reading    Not to good