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If we are on a big site my 7 yo goes skip surfing - looking in the bins for discarded windbreaks and flysheets to build dens out of on site.  Last year he came back with a complete windbreak - on questioning him we discovered it hadn't come from a bin but had been left rolled up next to someone's tent

He returned it before they came back luckily. 

My daughter keeps forgetting her shoes.  She leaves them outside someone's tent when she goes in to play, comes home barefoot and forgets which tent she left them in.  We've actually lost 2 pairs of shoes completley like this.

Last camping trip the 7yo burnt the tops of his fingers on one hand.  We had put the fire out a couple of hours before but he picked up one of the bricks that were around it.  One nice set of blistered fingertips later and he won't be doing that again.

Quote: Originally posted by Lullabelle on 11/8/2009

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Turned out my darling 4 year old was sticking a feather up her 6 year old brother's bare bum...

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Pmsl! Social services have been called for less.

That's a story that needs to be saved for one of their wedding days.

Had our first trip this week end with 22 month old granddaughter. She slept like a log but she too had a thing about being naked and took her clothes off. She loved all the textures of the tent and rolling about best fun to her was when we were trying to put it up and later on when we took it down. She couldn't quite understand why we needed to get her to stop rolling on it.

I was worried about her making a lot of noise but she didn't so obviuosly a natural camper.

wasnt the kids but i once hired a caravan off a friend of a friend, i got driven there with 2 children my son and neice then left to my own devices. key worked in the door but it was stiff and i had to push really hard to open door. entered alarm code given, but ten minutes later a security guard came saying alarm was going off, he couldnt switch it off so he put a sock over the sensor. unpacked and went out for evening.next day took kids swimming but lifeguard told me i had to be accompanied by an adult. i was 22!!. went back for lunch and nap. a lady knocked on the door and was rather irrate.she was a cleaner for the owner and she never hired her van out. id got the wrong van and broken in and slept there. after finding right van and moving stuff halfway across park i was bushed so went to supermarket for a bottle of wine and something nice for supper. they wouldnt serve me and i had no id. what a week.!!