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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Last time I went camping was down in Devon - we arrived with the tent and gear we normally use at festivals such as Glastonbury & Lattitude to find everyone else had huge tents with mains electricity, fridges and tv's. It was more like living on a housing estate than camping. Thanks, but no thanks - I'll stick to hotels for that kind of holiday and continue to use the tent only for festivals.

Fridges and TVs? That's not proper camping. Mutter mutter bunch of amateurs mutter mutter.


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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Last time I went camping was down in Devon - we arrived with the tent and gear we normally use at festivals such as Glastonbury & Lattitude to find everyone else had huge tents with mains electricity, fridges and tv's. It was more like living on a housing estate than camping. Thanks, but no thanks - I'll stick to hotels for that kind of holiday and continue to use the tent only for festivals.

Fridges and TVs? That's not proper camping. Mutter mutter bunch of amateurs mutter mutter.


I always feel pity for those people. It's so silly to see them walk passed in the morning. While I prepare some eggs on our gas burner, they walk past with bath robes, beauty cases, sometimes even hair nets, etc. One time, I saw one lady going through such a tent with a vacuum cleaner. Or worse, some of them tell me that they've only been able to go camping properly when they bought their current 8 meter caravan.... Dead
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I have many (mostly happy) memories of camping when I was younger, usually with minimal (though good quality) equipment.
 
My last camping experience was at a WOMAD festival 3 or 4 years ago. The weather was pretty good, but we were a long way from the nearest running water, a good 10 minutes from the main performance area and I remember thinking, scruffy and somewhat aromatic after 3 days of little sleep, festival food and only intermittent washing that enough was enough. The camping gear still goes into the back of the car when we go off into the wilds of the UK, but only as a last resort - there are plenty of decent hostels and bunkhouses, to say nothing of reasonably priced self catering accommodation, to make camping largely unnecessary.
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Last time I went camping was down in Devon - we arrived with the tent and gear we normally use at festivals such as Glastonbury & Lattitude to find everyone else had huge tents with mains electricity, fridges and tv's. It was more like living on a housing estate than camping. Thanks, but no thanks - I'll stick to hotels for that kind of holiday and continue to use the tent only for festivals.

Fridges and TVs? That's not proper camping. Mutter mutter bunch of amateurs mutter mutter.


I always feel pity for those people. It's so silly to see them walk passed in the morning. While I prepare some eggs on our gas burner, they walk past with bath robes, beauty cases, sometimes even hair nets, etc. One time, I saw one lady going through such a tent with a vacuum cleaner. Or worse, some of them tell me that they've only been able to go camping properly when they bought their current 8 meter caravan.... Dead

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Now I've heard it all. I might take one to our next Scout camp, just need to find one that's solar powered first.
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Yup, next camp we'll all sit round the camp fire, crack open a few tins and have a good old sing song.

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i wasn't born to be a scout i'm afraid, Alan - but well done on the good work you do scouting, it is a noble institution! Clap
 
i tried camping several years ago and hated every minute of it - after driving all day to some remote location, my booking was for "a flat spot out of the wind"....i was given  - you guessed it - a small space on the edge of a cliff in a force 8 gale...Cry  with a cow in the next field for company!  we spent 3 hours working out how to replicate my new tent to look something like it was set up in the showroom (all before the rain came)  Confused   then another hour working out how to get the petrol stove going only to end up with some disgusting tinned meat and stewed tea Dead
then an uncomfortable night ending up with me crawling into the car at 3 o clock in the morning, and after two more days of misery traipsing backwards and forwards for water  i ended up in casualty with an infected foot Ouch.
i managed to sell all the stuff on Ebay ,  call me a softie but will stick to B&B in future..Embarrassed
 
 


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My only real experience of camping has been at festivals (most often being Cropredy - this year will be our 19th consecutive), so there's been very little in the way of solitude... well, just us & 20,000 close friends.

Over that 19 years, we've seen virtually every kind of weather, from torrential rain to the kind of heat where you really don't want to go inside a tent in daylight for fear of melting (there is little worse than the inside of a nylon tent when the temperature outside is around 28 very humid degrees)

By the way - well done to everyone - 2 pages about camping & no mentions of Larry Grayson, Kenneth Williams or Graham Norton

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:


By the way - well done to everyone - 2 pages about camping & no mentions of Larry Grayson, Kenneth Williams or Graham Norton
 
maybe we could just squeeze in a 'Julian Clarey'....Embarrassed
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:


By the way - well done to everyone - 2 pages about camping & no mentions of Larry Grayson, Kenneth Williams or Graham Norton
 
maybe we could just squeeze in a 'Julian Clarey'....Embarrassed
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I have vowed never to go camping ever again. I hate it!!!!!

This is really only because it has rained literally every time I have stayed in a tent. Last year, I went camping in Devon with a friend and her son. For three days the rain was continual, and I DO mean continual. The paths on the campsite were like muddy rivers. In my infinite wisdom, I insisted in pitching the tent ,on the crest of a hill. We were by the coast, and when we returned from a washed out excursion to Paignton Zoo, the wind had 'sucked' my bedroom compartment, out of the tent, torn the fly sheet and strewn the contents across the campsite.

I had to pay for this pleasure!!! Never again!!

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You'll not be doing Cropredy, then?

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you should come to australia for some good camping,nothing beats sleeping under the stars in the desert knowing the nearest person is 200 miles away.
 
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2009 at 07:25
Originally posted by Vicky Garten Vicky Garten wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:


By the way - well done to everyone - 2 pages about camping & no mentions of Larry Grayson, Kenneth Williams or Graham Norton
 
maybe we could just squeeze in a 'Julian Clarey'....Embarrassed
I don't think soEvil Smile
 
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If anyone's thinking of buying a can of Coke this afternoon, you can now buy 5 shares in RBS for the same price.
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Make that 6 shares.
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damn, has the price of Coke gone up again Unhappy
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Yep. Sir Fred "The Shred" Goodwin has truly Censored us over. His takeover of ABN Amro is now officially "one of the worst and most ill-timed takeovers in history". Meanwhile he still has his pension.
Thanks a bunch Sir Fred.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Yep. Sir Fred "The Shred" Goodwin has truly Censored us over. His takeover of ABN Amro is now officially "one of the worst and most ill-timed takeovers in history". Meanwhile he still has his pension.
Thanks a bunch Sir Fred.
 
I just saw this on the news (off ill today Dead) - I'll keep my fingers crossed for you Alan.
 
 
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Yep. Sir Fred "The Shred" Goodwin has truly Censored us over. His takeover of ABN Amro is now officially "one of the worst and most ill-timed takeovers in history". Meanwhile he still has his pension.
Thanks a bunch Sir Fred.
 
 
..for today i renounce the name "Fred" in protest at this outrage...Angry
 
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