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28/11/2008 at 8:14pm
 Location: Blackpool Lancashire
 Outfit: Vango Sungari 600 LargeLichfield
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It`s been four months now but finally I feel the time is right to issue an apology to my Brats and any nearby campers. When packing up from our annual two week stay at Tregarton park I swore.....not a dam or blast but a full-on F word, whilst trying to take down the massive Lichfield in the storm from Hell, and standing in two inches of water. TWO hours it took,everything and everyone soaked through.The tent finally bundled into the trailer poured water all the way back to Blackpool, god knows what gear we lost, and the promises to buy a tin tent next year, but now I have mellowed, whisky has passed my lips, and maybe the sun will shine next year !! 


28/11/2008 at 8:18pm
 Location: aberdeen
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I thought shouting swearing and fighting with your partner while putting up or taking down the tent was part of the holiday cos an awful lot of peeps do it.

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28/11/2008 at 8:36pm
 Location: Cumbria (Upper Eden Valley)
 Outfit: Cabanons SunValley Michigan Khyam ABI
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It was you then    No seriously I'm sure no one heard you and if they did they were prob to worried about getting their own tents down and stuff packed away.

The thing is next year it can only get better. Since the last couple of years have been pretty nasty weather wise then it must mean a good one for next year.



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28/11/2008 at 9:17pm
 Location: barnsley
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im almost certain that you can be forgiven, given the circumstances. i too would have used those words in your situation

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29/11/2008 at 12:43pm
 Location: West Scotland
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and you reckon buying a van stops the swearing just try putting up a full awning with your OH or forgetting to fill the aquaroll at night. or even worse when turning the aquaroll onto its side to move it and it lands on your foot

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29/11/2008 at 1:07pm
 Location: Teesside
 Outfit: Challenger Sport 524 + Volvo V90 D5
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A bl***y good swear reduces blood pressure and stress. Keep it up for a long life


29/11/2008 at 5:58pm
 Location: South Yorkshire
 Outfit: sprite musketeer caravan
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Or as us this year in France closed the door behind me and it locked, both sets of keys inside, never had that problem with a tent.



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29/11/2008 at 10:19pm
 Location: Bergamo Italy
 Outfit:  ESVO Pyramid & Ridge
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I'm sure the instructions for my tent state

12: swear repeatedly as you try to fold the tent down small enough to fit it back into the carry bag.

Must go and check.

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Are we there yet?


30/11/2008 at 12:56pm
 Location: East Sussex
 Outfit: None Entered
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The Khyam instructions [should] make much of the scope for swearing practice.

"The unique click-lock fittings on the poles afford plentiful opportunities for extending the breadth and variety of your cursing as you pinch your fingers in them. This is especially the case when your hands are cold and wet (ie at any point during 2008) and the pain is considerably intensified."

Arnica cream should be included in the repair kit.



30/11/2008 at 3:46pm
 Location: nottingham
 Outfit: Grand Canyon 8 Pennine Fiesta
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I never like arguing with OH, but it nearly always happens when we put our tent or camper up.But the making up after is great. Should this have been posted in the nookie thread?lol 

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05/12/2008 at 8:42am
 Location: Blackpool Lancashire
 Outfit: Vango Sungari 600 LargeLichfield
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So if we all bl***y swear while putting up or taking down, who are all those happy, smiley campers we see in the holiday brouchures ?


05/12/2008 at 10:42pm
 Location: Somercotes Derbyshire.
 Outfit: Peakland Stanedge (aka Napoli 500)
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You know what they say:

I am a good boy,

I don't swear,

Sh*t, Bu**er, Ar*ehole,

I don't care...................................................................Anone.



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08/12/2008 at 9:17am
 Location: Bootle
 Outfit: various tents & A steam train
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When we went away in May I was tempted to drive home, leaving Richard alone on site.
It was heaving it down when I was packing the car, and he wouldn't help because "it's wet out".    I inadvertently forgot to pack the big bag of pegs we use, so we only had a few.    Well it was all my fault, I should have checked.     He should have got up off his a""e and helped - the kids did more.  
I was the one who had to drive into town, despite the fact that he knew the way and I didn't.
Managed to get pegs without a problem.
If it wasn't for the fact that the kids would have been bitterly disappointed I would have driven home.

 

BERNIE



08/12/2008 at 11:25am
 Location: Cumbernauld Scotland
 Outfit: Monty 6Icarus 500 Halo 300
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Been there..Done that...had a few sweary words while pitching/unpitching..Anyone from a meet will tell you what I was like when I was trying to set up my TT(mostly alone)While the promised help(kids) disappeared in all directions as soon as we parked on site...Worst barney I ever witnessed was a couple in a two man tent pitched beside us one time..Started as they pitched 16:00 pm.. were still going at it at 3:00am in the morning..When..after me shouting at them to shut up..they got up de camped and left(still arguing!!! They left some gear behind (another tenter took it in..in case they came back for it)Meanwhile an elderly couple turn up and pitched an identical tent on the same spot!!! Origional guy turns up at 1:00am next morning and starts accusing the old couple of stealing his tent/gear(which he had taken with him when he left!!)Till most of the menfolk in surrounding tents got up and calmed him down...Turns out he had left Perthshire(where we were camped) got in the car..drove all the way to Blackpool..went to pitch his tent..found gear missing..left his..as it turned out(fancy woman??) in Blackpool??? and driven all the way back to Perthshire..still fuming...saw the identical tent..pitched where he had been..forgot?? he had taken his tent to Blackpool..and thought this old couple had pinched his gear!!!! What an absolute WALLY!!!!!!!

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08/12/2008 at 12:59pm
 Location: aberdeen
 Outfit: 2 Gelert tents
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Quote: Originally posted by jelboy53 on 08/12/2008

Been there..Done that...had a few sweary words while pitching/unpitching..Anyone from a meet will tell you what I was like when I was trying to set up my TT(mostly alone)While the promised help(kids) disappeared in all directions as soon as we parked on site...Worst barney I ever witnessed was a couple in a two man tent pitched beside us one time..Started as they pitched 16:00 pm.. were still going at it at 3:00am in the morning..When..after me shouting at them to shut up..they got up de camped and left(still arguing!!! They left some gear behind (another tenter took it in..in case they came back for it)Meanwhile an elderly couple turn up and pitched an identical tent on the same spot!!! Origional guy turns up at 1:00am next morning and starts accusing the old couple of stealing his tent/gear(which he had taken with him when he left!!)Till most of the menfolk in surrounding tents got up and calmed him down...Turns out he had left Perthshire(where we were camped) got in the car..drove all the way to Blackpool..went to pitch his tent..found gear missing..left his..as it turned out(fancy woman??) in Blackpool??? and driven all the way back to Perthshire..still fuming...saw the identical tent..pitched where he had been..forgot?? he had taken his tent to Blackpool..and thought this old couple had pinched his gear!!!! What an absolute WALLY!!!!!!!

Jelboy.


Bl***y good entertainment though

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08/12/2008 at 5:35pm
 Location: Cumbernauld Scotland
 Outfit: Monty 6Icarus 500 Halo 300
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It had its moments B...But 3am and 1am next morning were not two of them

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