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Quote: Originally posted by JK98 on 17/8/2009

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I've never needed to rescue a neighbours tent, but I would if the occasion arose. I did remove a load of washing from a neighbours guy ropes when the heavens opened. I pegged them to a line I use under our front canopy. I dried myself off, then suddenly thought that they may not notice it under our canopy & think that someone had stolen it, so I wrote a note & went out in the pouring rain again to slip the note under their tent door.

They arrived back about 10 minutes later, but half an hour later they still hadn't come to fetch their washing, so daft as you like, I folded it, put it in a dustbin bag & took it over to them (getting soaked again). They said they'd seen the note, but were waiting for the rain to stop before they fetched it. Doh

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Bless you Jean, you sound like a really nice person.

I would certainly help others in these circumstances, and would be extremely grateful for someone doing the same for me.

In the Great Loire Storm of 2003(?) the tiny tent on the next pitch was flattened. I and another couple of neighbours went out and rescued the tent and kit before it got scattered to the four corners of the campsite. This was at 2am (I was out checking the guylines) so where were the owners? They had decamped to the shower block for safety and were peacefully sleeping through the entire thing, one assumes.

Was quite amusing though when they came back to the pitch the next morning and found...nothing there. Don't know what they expected! We owned up after a couple of minutes though, lol.

Quote: Originally posted by nanashirley on 17/8/2009

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Last year near Warwick the weather was awful, we came back from a day out to find a trailer tent and a folding camper with bits flapping about.  The trailer tent was in a state, so we took the awning down, and rolled it up etc.  Contacted the owner of the site ........ who in turn eventually contacted the owners.  They had gone home as the weather was so awful!!!   About 3/4 hour later they turned up, took them down and went back home.  Didn't even say thanks.  We couldn't really believe that anyone would go home and leave them up on site when the weather was so bad.There was easily a couple of thousand pounds worth of stuff there, and had we not helped out, i am sure most of it would have been severely damaged.

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How rude! I really dislike bad manners and they should have been very grateful to you for your thoughtful actions.

I have helped out in situations as others have described - repegging flapping tents and fetching washing in etc. Someone very kindly tucked a book I had left outside back in under the porch door when we were by Lough Neagh last year. For me this is part of camping "culture".

Ooh Numbersix, good question. If they were not in I would still have to help out, but if they were there and struggling? Ooh I don't know