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PersonPeggybabcot
26/7/2008 at 10:12pm
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Well, we're all packed and managed to get all our requirements for a week away in the boot of our car and in a roof box so our car has officially been renamed The Tardis. We're all packed up and ready for the off tomorrow on our inaugural trip to London so if you see some mad woman driving a Ford Maverick with her face pressed up against the windscreen due to having luggage rammed into every crevice with a car that looks like it's fit to burst, honk your horn tee hee hee! The best of it is, that when we go and do the weekly shop at Tescos the boot always seems full then so it's made me realise just how much be actually buy. Does anyone else own a tardis?

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If you have a problem stressing you, sort it. If you can't, there's no point worrying about it coz it won't make a blind bit of difference!!!! Jules


PersonBernie47
26/7/2008 at 10:19pm
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It does not matter what size of car you have, the camping stuff only just fits in.

 



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PersonBreeze
26/7/2008 at 10:22pm
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But you can always squeeze a little more in!!  That little something you just had to have!!

B


PersonJaydee55
26/7/2008 at 10:37pm
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I'm another member of the Ford Maverick club!  We put chairs, cool box, aquaroll, TV, 5 stone of labrador, etc, etc in ours  - and that's as well as the stuff we've packed the van!  Tardis is right!  I'm sure we don't need half of it but it all comes anyway - just in case. 

Enjoy your trip!

 

 



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PersonPeggybabcot
26/7/2008 at 10:41pm
 Location: Swadlincote Derbyshire
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I know what you mean but when I bought the oven from Lidl I did wonder whether that was gonna be the straw that broke the donkey's back. Now I know I can fit it all in I'm looking a fridges on t'internet! That WILL mean the kids being seriosuly squashed though lol! I suppose cars are like houses, the more room you have the more stuff you find to fill it. Our problem is that we seriously need to sort our garage out to store our camping equipment in or the car will become the shed. Too much stuff, too little time and definitely not enough time spent camping.

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If you have a problem stressing you, sort it. If you can't, there's no point worrying about it coz it won't make a blind bit of difference!!!! Jules


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Personrexgrant
26/7/2008 at 10:49pm
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Hi Peggy
The problem is not loading to take it away. It getting it all back in to come home every thing grows
Good luck.
Rex.

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Persontony+dawn
26/7/2008 at 10:50pm
 Location: Milnrow Rochdale.
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I would love someone in the know to explain my signature.......

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Give a monkey control of its environment and it will fill the world with bananas.....


Person2plus1
27/7/2008 at 12:22am
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I own a skoda Felixcia estate and have fitted a 12 x 12 market stall in the car.


Personsonja.p
27/7/2008 at 7:13am
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Quote: Originally posted by Peggybabcot on 26/7/2008
we seriously need to sort our garage out to store our camping equipment in or the car will become the shed.

we don't have a garage so my little astra van is my shed! :( Although i don't have quite so much stuff in it when i am not actually going camping .

i thought i was going to have to leave my big blue tub trug behind but i managed te wedge it in:) 

 

 

 


PersonDaveH24
28/7/2008 at 8:27pm
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I agree with Rex , It's pretty depressing looking at a massive heap of tent and camping equipment and a tiny car and roof box , I tend to pack fairly inefficiently on the way out and more efficiently on the way back , especially if traveling to a supply of good wine !!!


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Personthefishdude
28/7/2008 at 8:45pm
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i are i remember he good old days when iw as lil off he over packed car. dad used to fill boot up and the entire backseat apart from like 12 inch gap for me to sit in and have someiting on me lap. lol

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PersonFINLAYSMUM
29/7/2008 at 12:35pm
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I have the answer to all your packing problems - it's called a caravan!

(Runs away and ducks to avoid flying tent pegs)

Carrie



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Personmumshadenough
29/7/2008 at 1:44pm
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Sonja.p - did your car explode??

 

 


Personkev5176
29/7/2008 at 7:44pm
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heaviest stuff in the back of my astra : a trip to scrapyard at cardiff i was able load in 3 centre railway buffers,off old epb stock  1 class 86 drivers seat, and driverss loco door, if i had my roof bars prob more

might astra mighty big and it pulls my archway van no probs !!

 

 



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PersonSam Coleridge
29/7/2008 at 10:54pm
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I'm taking a day off just to pack the car and make sure I don't forget anything important.

Large saloon car, nothing above parcel shelf. Don't trust the roofrack - though I suspect I'll have a pushbike strapped on the back next year.

When I'm done, there will just be room for me - with all round visibility, and with a bit of luck, the tent will be accessible without having to empty half of the other stuff.

I really miss my van sometimes ...



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