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We're going this weekend come rain or shine as I've had all the new kit sitting around for 3 weeks now and I can't wait any longer...

Bring it on!

this one does 15 day forecasts, here

But I won't take too much notice of any of them from now on. Last friday it was a beautiful day, but heavy rain and cold forecast for fri night, and sat & Sun. After a big row with hubby on Fri morning, because he didn't want to go because the forecast was so bad, we went on fri evening. a very warm sunny weekend and not a drop of rain at all, so we stayed the sunday night as well.

Hi daleswalker, i got the long range weather on here,clicked the weather map on the opening page. I obviously know how our weather works so didnt take too much notice.

Im off to get waterproofs and will enjoy it whatever!!

Thanks everyone

Carole

The only thing to remember when camping in the wet is to establish some good house rules - like peeling off wet outer layers and dumping them in the porch (if you have one) along with muddy boots etc, and try to keep at least one set of warm dry clothes in the tent so if you do get soaked to the skin you can strip, towel off and put fresh dry stuff on. 

As for the problem of drying things out - I have fond memories of driving around Kilarney looking for a laundrette and then spending a happy hour chatting to locals in there whilst our kit dried!!

We have one really popular (and cheap) rainy day plan...head for nearest town, go swimming at the local leisure pool, lunch out then trawl round the local charity shops. Swimming pool gets you warm, charity shops usually yield enough cheap toys to keep kids going for a couple of days. PLUS....more spare clothes, if everything you took for the kids to wear is filthy and soaking wet.

One tip...if you`re going camping , take all the kids` oldest clothes. Mud ruins clothes once ground in and marinated in a laundry bag for a couple of days. Camping ruins kids` clothes, period. Don`t take clothes you`re going to stress over keeping wearable. Tough shorts, wellies, fleeces and more socks than you`d belive possible, preferably of the 5-pairs-for-£1 type that you can regard as disposable. (I swear by Tesco Value socks for kids on campsites.)

Quote: Originally posted by foggers on 18/5/2006

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The only thing to remember when camping in the wet is to establish some good house rules - like peeling off wet outer layers and dumping them in the porch (if you have one) along with muddy boots etc,

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Ooh, absolutely. No wet clothes in sleeping pods, ever! Once your bedding gets wet, you might as well go home.