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19/10/2012 at 12:30pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 18/10/2012
I joined the scouts when I was 11 and went to my first summer camp the following year. I am now 65 and still camping, although I have now given up winter camping, so it's 53 years for me.
53yrs is certainly a long time,bet you have a few stories too tell.
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20/10/2012 at 10:30am
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Blimey.....I feel like a spring chicken compared to some on here..... Started camping 18 months ago, spent hundreds of £'s and have found my ideal escape....even if it is the back garden sometimes  Pitching again later as the youngest has her friends over to stay in the tent in the garden..... (the first question they ask when invited to a sleepover is...."are we in the tent?") Should be fun as I have a suspected broken wrist which is splinted at the mo while waiting for further xrays.....and no I can't let them do it as my tent is special and if they did it wrong I'd cry....
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22/10/2012 at 8:30am
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Quote: Originally posted by daveslisa on 20/10/2012
Blimey.....I feel like a spring chicken compared to some on here.....<img align="absmiddle" src="forum_images/smiley3.gif" width="17" alt="17"> Started camping 18 months ago, spent hundreds of £'s and have found my ideal escape....even if it is the back garden sometimes <img align="absmiddle" src="forum_images/smiley1.gif" width="17" alt="17"> Pitching again later as the youngest has her friends over to stay in the tent in the garden..... (the first question they ask when invited to a sleepover is...."are we in the tent?") Should be fun as I have a suspected broken wrist which is splinted at the mo while waiting for further xrays.....and no I can't let them do it as my tent is special and if they did it wrong I'd cry....<img align="absmiddle" src="forum_images/smiley9.gif" width="17" alt="17">
I have given my daughter a loan of my fishing bivvies when she has had sleepovers at her mums house...All her friends are in their mid teens/twenties and don't strike me as being remotely interested in camping....But like your daughters friends all ask "Are you putting the tents up?"when she invites them over..Seems they all love back garden camping and have a high old time even if its done on the crazy paving of the patio...!!!
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22/10/2012 at 9:25am
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Most of the girls friends had never been inside a tent let alone slept in one, (which was us 18 months ago), and are now putting pop up tents on their Christmas lists....I feel quite proud that we're inspiring the next generation of campers....
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23/10/2012 at 12:09am
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daveslisa - that's wonderful to be inspiring young people to camp - you should be proud :)
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23/10/2012 at 7:37am
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I was camping with our motorbike club last August Bank Holiday and the conversation cropped up about ages. Iwas aked hold I was and said 75 and another pieped up and said I can beat that I'm 83.
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23/10/2012 at 8:43am
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I spent my first night ever under canvass at the end of October last year, at the age of 62.
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18/12/2012 at 11:34am
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Like some of the other posters I unfortunately or fortunately discovered camping only a couple of years ago thanks to my beloved dog and wanting to go off somewhere with her; both of us took to it like a duck to water and have met lots of lovely people and have camped practically non-stop ever since - making up for lost time. Next camp is a NY eve meet which was very successful last year.
Nearly forgot, I was 59 when I camped for the first time ever, never did it as a child and this thread is inspiring, I hope to be camping for a good long while too. Happy camping everybody.
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