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Subject Topic: 1st weekend :-) Post Reply Post New Topic
15/7/2013 at 12:44pm
 Location: chesterfield derbyshire
 Outfit: vango icarus 5 airbeam and citroen c5
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well our 1st weekend with the monty wwent like this , tent pitched ok and was very happy , about an hour with the guying etc , asked oh to get kettle on , for a much earned brew, no problem said she, where is the teabags sugar and coffee i thought you had packed them ?? erm no off to find a supermarket oh goes in , i sit in car with dogs and aircon running , out she comes , back to site !! she has forgot coffee , back to shop, finally get to relax , darkness creeps in , no problem switch light on ?? oops no bulb , ok dig out gas lantern !! o dear, gas mantle disintigrated and no spare , ahh but we have headtorches , ok no batteries hmmm off to bed it is then


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derbyshire bloke, born & bred, strong in t'arm, weak in t'ead
and remember only dead fish swim , with the flow!!


15/7/2013 at 1:24pm
 Location: Manchester
 Outfit: Vango Maritsa 700; Isis 600 + canopy
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Oh well! At least you know what to pack first next time!

I KNOW we are going to forget something this weekend. I just don't know what it will be yet. But I keep telling myself that as long as we have somewhere to sleep, then we are only going to Cheshire. Not Outer Mongolia. Whatever we need I'm sure I can find a 24 hr Tesco that will have it!

Our last holiday, two weeks in Norfolk, my hubby forgot to pack the electronics box. We had no iPad, no phone chargers, no food mixer, no hair dryer, no anything that needed any kind of electric. (This was a cottage not a tent, just to add, I wouldn't take my food mixer in a tent!!)

I didn't really care, but my hubby and son went into iPad withdrawal within about 2 hours of arrival! He even started looking into how much it would cost to get a courier to pick it up and bring it to us!!


15/7/2013 at 2:37pm
 Location: wirral
 Outfit: Outwell Nevada m Vango sigma 300
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Sounds typical. hehehehheheee guaranteed that some one will forget something.   I always do.

heath63

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15/7/2013 at 3:20pm
 Location: Lowton Cheshire
 Outfit: Vango Maritsa 700
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I'm really sorry to hijack this post (grovel, grovel please forgive me coz I'm a newbie!!) but where are you going in Cheshire RachIN76? We're based just outside Manchester and are looking for somewhere fairly close to head off to for the weekend either Cheshire or Lancashire way.
Thank you
x



15/7/2013 at 5:00pm
 Location: Aberdeenshire
 Outfit: Several tents and a hammock
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Ah well, at least you're still smiling! Make a list next time.

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15/7/2013 at 6:18pm
 Location: North Wiltshire
 Outfit: Elddis & 3 tents
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At least you can laugh about it and you will remember them next time (and probably forget something else instead )


15/7/2013 at 6:31pm
 Location: Manchester
 Outfit: Vango Maritsa 700; Isis 600 + canopy
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We are going to Shays Farm.

We could have matching tents!! LOl

Hang on, I'll find you the link. I don't think they have any electric hook up pitches left at this stage though.

Shay's Farm


15/7/2013 at 6:37pm
 Location: Kent
 Outfit: 5m Bell Tent & Olpro Pop Tent.
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Oh dear. Checklist me thinks, 1st on list is check the check list.


15/7/2013 at 7:34pm
 Location: Manchesterish
 Outfit: Kampa Hayling 6 1997 abi marauder
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Try anywhere in the Derbyshire dales. Loads of sites that went even on here. Amazing views, breath taking


16/7/2013 at 3:35pm
 Location: Lowton Cheshire
 Outfit: Vango Maritsa 700
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Thanks RachIN76 - that looks lovely and is nice and close. Unfortunately OH is being mean and says we can't go away this weekend now Although, on the upside it is because we're getting a towbar for the car which he has to fit this weekend so we can get a trailer to take our camping stuff in And he has promised we can go away next weekend instead. Yay! So, we'll have to organise to be tent twins another time!!!

Thanks also babycake for the suggestions - we've been to Derbyshire the last couple of times and love it but just wanted something even closer to us just to nip to for the weekend (was trying to sneak an extra trip in between our Derbyshire jaunts without giving OH a reason to moan about pennies!!)

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17/7/2013 at 9:55am
 Location: Manchester
 Outfit: Vango Maritsa 700; Isis 600 + canopy
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We'll do it another time then!



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