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At last,have bought a trailer tent!Now proud owners of a Raclet Marathon which we picked up today and is now settling into new home.Children are really excited and want to sleep in it as soon as possible and wont be put off by me mumbling about frostbite.

The actual tent itself is really easy to put up/fold down but the awning.....the guy we bought it from has used it once and so we whiled away a few hours with him taking it down with noone quite knowing where it all went,and because we were amongst strangers OH was unusually polite in his cursing!It all went a bit wrong when the vendor smacked me in the head with a pole during the awning take down and then OH knelt on top of the kitchen breaking the lid.I left the men to it while i looked for a mallet that would do for both of them.

On the way home i mused as to how long it would take us to do the awning by ourselves.'Pah!Piece of cake',he says.'i've been a scout and erected tents,sheds,playhouses....Sistine Chapel,blah,blah!'..Yep,you've guessed it,he's still out there now 3 hours later while i've got the kettle on and offering words of support such as 'its getting dark now'.

After a brief trip in my thoughts over to the Dark Side(caravan)when it was all a bit chaotic earlier am now looking forward to life with a trailer tent!

Congratulations!  Sounds like you're having real fun  with this camping lark! Welcome to the club. 

Pauline

Thanks everyone!And yes Haribo ,will really benefit from some professional help particularly with the awning as we are the Great Pretenders of camping by far.Will choose our pitch carefully,seeking out another trailer tent/camper for expert knowledge nearby so if you see a family of Raclet Marathon owners looking confused near you its probably us.

Aired out the awning indoors last night,woke up to find a miniture zoo of earwigs,ants and other things with legs roaming around on the carpet.Lesson learned:de-bug as much as possible before bringing awning in!

I hope you didn't let the kids have them for breakfast!!!

Go on book Hamble, i'll show you how it's done!!!!!

Hi Haribo,

Children wanted to take miniture zoo in for Show and Tell but explained might get a bit complicated as mum would have to answer lots of questions by their teachers.....

Still deciding on Hamble,awning now having a few repairs so not sure when coming back....and more importantly will be freezing!!!!!! But watch this space may venture out onto the wilderness yet(well the campsite)and have a trial run with tt.Will dig out woolly hats and buy a fan heater!

Quote: Originally posted by 5HappyMillsys on 03/10/2007

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At last,have bought a trailer tent!Now proud owners of a Raclet Marathon which we picked up today and is now settling into new home.Children are really excited and want to sleep in it as soon as possible and wont be put off by me mumbling about frostbite.

The actual tent itself is really easy to put up/fold down but the awning.....the guy we bought it from has used it once and so we whiled away a few hours with him taking it down with noone quite knowing where it all went,and because we were amongst strangers OH was unusually polite in his cursing!It all went a bit wrong when the vendor smacked me in the head with a pole during the awning take down and then OH knelt on top of the kitchen breaking the lid.I left the men to it while i looked for a mallet that would do for both of them.

On the way home i mused as to how long it would take us to do the awning by ourselves.'Pah!Piece of cake',he says.'i've been a scout and erected tents,sheds,playhouses....Sistine Chapel,blah,blah!'..Yep,you've guessed it,he's still out there now 3 hours later while i've got the kettle on and offering words of support such as 'its getting dark now'.

After a brief trip in my thoughts over to the Dark Side(caravan)when it was all a bit chaotic earlier am now looking forward to life with a trailer tent!

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Quote: Originally posted by samcat on 25/2/2008

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Hi do you know what the Raclet website is? been Googling for 5 minutes... they don't want to be found

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 WWW.RACLET.FR