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i love the TV and camping debate.. we take ours not too watch soap..its to keep an active 7 yr old amused for that vital hour or so in the morning...

and he even takes his xbox now aswell...omg!!! how awful is that??? but still we get away from the every day crap and worries...and we love it!!!

so there!!! and if you dont like it lump it!!

Quote: Originally posted by Chorleydave on 20/9/2005

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Well, everyone to their own, but why anyone would want to take a telly when camping is beyond me! One of the pleasures of camping is getting away from the bloody thing.

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I take the dvd player but its just for wet afternoons. My daughters out running round like a heathen most of the time with the other campsite kids anyway and that's what it's all about  We take things like uno, cards and a few travel games.

Last year there was a strange family pitched behind us, he had the car door open with the radio going full blast, took the owner a couple of hours before he came to sort it out. Once he'd been told to turn it off he decided he'd let the kids play cricket with a proper cricket ball amongst the tents, it hit the back of our tent and if anyone had been standing at the back it would have knocked them out!

fin

Quote: Originally posted by sarahjaques2002 on 20/9/2005

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Quote: Originally posted by Chorleydave on 20/09/2005

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Well, everyone to their own, but why anyone would want to take a telly when camping is beyond me! One of the pleasures of camping is getting away from the bloody thing.

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I agree totally, that would be the last thing on our list, but each to their own !

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Hi I think that the problem is not that people take the tv it is how much time they spend watching it, most people probably imagine that those with tv's are clock watching and forego any other activity to watch a certain program, wheras i don't generally believe this to be the case.

We don't take a tv as me and husband barely watch it at home anyway, but we do take v-smile pockets for our two boys (3&5), but we met a lovely family last year who had everything tv, dvd player, radio and games console however the amount of time they spent using them was minimal, it was there as a back up if the weather turned or in the morning whilst waiting for other (lazier!!) family members to wake up.

Seemed ok to me. they did keep sound well down too.