Sat in car on a campsite. Happy Holidays

[babysgotthespends]

Morning All, after an accident involving urine in the sleeping bag me (not guilty) and 4 year old are sat in car on a campsite in Pembrokeshire waiting for rest of family to wake up. Wish I could say it was a beautiful view watching the sea/sunrise or listening to birdsong but we’re both fed up and tired. She’ll probably fall asleep but I shall silently seethe and think of my dry, sweet smelling bed at home. It’s day 2! But no more rain. Apparently. Been here since 5:30am. Can I hear your holiday horror stories whilst I hold my own bladder and wait for a reasonable time to wake everyone else up. Thanks 😭

Do Amazon deliver to campsites?

Staying in my DM had a caravan. I came down with a bug, DH cleared off to the clubhouse and I had to try and feed DS 12mth sat in his baby walker whilst laying on the sofa!
Camping at a festival in 1990. Friend and I needed wee at 3am, queue for portaloos was long. We decided to use a biscuit tin we had a BBQ in the night before forgetting it had holes in the bottom!
Ended up using my towel to mop up all the wee it in the middle of the tent.
On way home friend wasn’t looking where she was going and crashed her car! Wrote it off and we came home in the cab of a recovery flatbed. Her poor dads face when he saw the flatbed come in to their street with her crushed car on the back

We went camping this weekend. Lasted Friday night, came home first thing Saturday. It poured non stop. Absolutely horrendous. Never again.

Bless you OP glad you have had some coffee!

I did camp America for two summers. One group of girls had a girl around 8 who wet her bed every night. Luckily we had a big washing machine, spare blankets and warm weather. One night she wet it twice though and ended up wearing my jumper and in my sleeping bag after round two as we had run out of pjs! Cold night!

I'm from Pembrokeshire and the collective responses to the sleeping bag situation are hilarious.

What a weird sentence.

Sorry OP, I love camping but yeah, if something goes wrong you really don’t have a cushion, do you!

Hope you can find a washing machine, coffee and carbs this morning and then I reckon you’re due an afternoon nap!

Personally I'd dump the sleeping bag and buy a new one! Factor in cleaning and drying costs plus the time it takes to do that and I'd rather stump up the cost for a new one.

We found out why a certain type of groundsheet is known as a "bathtub groundsheet" one year. Horizontal rain meant that the water in the outer part of the tent was up to my ankles (amazingly, the bit we were sleeping in was fine).

Two of the tent poles snapped in the wind and we spent most of the night sleeping in the back of our estate car, with 2 damp and smelly dogs for company. Luckily, it was the last night we were away, so the holiday wasn't ruined.

Is there a drive thru coffee shop nearby? If it happens again I would drive to get a coffee, hopefully DC will sleep and it would pass the time

Ha ha. This is actually a great idea

This,

buy a new sleeping bag.

Well bully for you.

We went to a caravan site recommended by a friend of my DM's when I was about 10 years old. It turned out to be 4 caravans on some land attached to a beach-front pub. It's the only holiday where I remember coming back early (we were only there 2 days). The double bed in the main bedroom was supported on breeze blocks, there was a handful of cutlery provided but most of it were those little wooden forks you get with a cone of chips, and the promised 'games arcade' was a teddy grabber machine in the pub! The weather was awful and I don't think the radiator in the caravan worked.

Camping in North Wales in November.

It had been raining heavily before we arrived and much of the campsite was flooded. The rain stopped long enough for us to put up the tent but it then transpired that not so DP had mixed up my sleeping bag with the spare tent - yes two tents and no sleeping bag for me!

I used his and he had to manage! I slept very well but I'm not sure the same could be said of him.

DBaby fell off the bed in a hotel in Aberdeen and also projectile vomited mushed up avocado all over the place. He also vomited fish all over me when I was breastfeeding him in a very hot car. We’ve had the wee in a sleeping bag too, we ran water over it in the campsite toilets and dried it over a camping chair the best we could. Still grim though. Hope your holiday improves OP.

When we were about 7 and 9, my brother and I saw an advert in some magazine for a caravan park in England. We decided our mum deserved a surprise holiday and asked our nan to help us (i.e. pay for it). Bless her, she did.

Turned out we needed to take about four trains and six hours to get there. It was in the middle of nowhere with one fish and chip shop and not much else. It rained incessantly and we were staying in a dingy caravan.

Happy holiday mum!

We went camping a few years ago to go to a wedding. There were gale force winds and it rained solidly for 24 hours. The wedding was lovely though, but we packed up early (in the rain!) and came home the next day

Annoyingly sleeping bag doesn't split. But a launderette in St David's that does a service wash.
Bladder(s) emptied, coffee drunk and and breakfast had
Off to the laundrette now!

Loving the supportive mumsnet crew. You've made what could have been a miserable few hours doable
Thanks all, now sing with me "Holiday! Celebrate!"

Can I offer up the bucket, we always keep on in the tent, so in any emergency you have a place to wee, or be sick in.
If used, we placed the contents in a cheap nappy bagged it and binned it the next morning....

Offer accepted x

Just back from Italy. There was a power cut so we struggled in the dark and unbearable heat with a 6yr old projectile vomiting through the night. By the end all I had was my Apple Watch for light. Got the power back but vomiting went through all 4 kids over 8 days.

Just dry it out and squirt it with some fabreze fabric freshener which I’m sure can be found far more easily than a launderette etc. You could go to all the fuss and bother of getting it “properly “ cleaned only for it to be potentially soiled again by another type of liquid.
Happy holidays OP x

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Were you in Glastonbury (town not Festival?) by any chance?