Camping Woes

[BellaBobbins]

Am currently camping in Wales (I know...I know...) had a lovely time so far but the weather is AWFUL today. It's windy as fuck, there are gazebos collapsing all over the campsite, and quite a few tents that are looking a bit wonky.

DH is a hardened camper, I'm not.

I miss my bed, I miss my own loo, and in 12 hours I've got to stuff the arsing tent into a bag, pack the car and drive several hours back to my lovely house.

Please cheer me up with your camping tales because I'm very tempted to bin the tent and drive home now.

If the weather is terrible go home now.

The weather forecast looks better in Wales tomorrow, depending where you are of course. I’d hunker down with a good book and leave tomorrow. Much easier to pack the tent if it has a chance to dry in the morning.

I’m on a campsite in Devon, pretty windy and rainy too.

We’ve just been out to eat and I’m now sitting in the car looking at the tent blowing about 😂😂😂

Once it's dark i used to pee behind tent provided you could unseen. It was a consideration pitching

So any biscuits, wine in tent?

Bar on sit?
Are kids old enough to be left and you can sneak off for a drink?

Providing you don't need anything in a tent with wind and rain is one of the few times you can hear the weather. Weather happens all the time but we are usually removed from the sense of it. So i used to, not meditate exactly, more just be in that moment.

Something to read, watch on an ipad, or listen to quietly and it can be a time of calm reflection.

I used to have a big declutter after camping because it connected that objects cost you time as well as money.

We have had camping disasters we all do.

But the kids learnt that hey we're in the middle of a field we have enough that will have to do.

And that's camping in wales in the summer!

I’m also camping just now in awful weather, our last night of 2 weeks. Mostly weather has been lovely though so - you win some you lose some. It’s all part of the thing. But I’d prefer no rain too!

Oh god no no no, not in the rain

Ugh

Go home

Really windy here too but it’s been nice all week so can’t complain. Couldn’t have done a week like today though. Sunny tomorrow just hope the tent lasts the night

I've got visions of tents flying everywhere now! Hope you all make it through unscathed 🧘‍♀️

The only rhat used to get me through camping was alcohol and lots of it

Go home now, if you're only sleeping there to go in the morning, go now!

I love camping tbh. If you're all warm and dry stick with it.

Nothing beats unzipping the tent door in the morning and looking at the scenery contentedly. Unless it's a storm, that I concur.

Many years ago ds2 decided he wanted to camp with his cousin at my Mum's. I agreed and slept in the sitting room with the patio door open and the large standard lamp switched on on the floor behind the sofa. Having spent the whole evening answering cries of "MUMMMMMA" and skidding and slipping on windfall apples as I went up and down the garden I eventually went to sleep.
I was awoken two hours later to Ds2's face an inch from mine...
"Mumma I want the toilet!!!"
"Well bugger off to the toilet and let me sleep!"
I played no part in any future camping arrangements!!

Camping is shit, sorry.

I’d go home. Camping is a form of torture in the guise of leisure.

Oh and pre ds2 DH and I went camping at Hay On Wye. There was a camper van full of Dutch tourists on the site too.
One night I woke up to the most terrible roaring noise outside. Put my hand out for DH and he wasn't there. I called for him in panicked tones. He was outside having a fag and informed me it was an RAF Galaxy plane flying down the Wye Valley.
It was all too much for the Dutch tourists who were running round the site announcing that a UFO had gone last!!

Enjoy it - think of the stories to tell !

I'd be tempted to ride it out until tomorrow as it will be drier. It's so much easier to pack up a dry tent!

It’s going to stop raining and being windy during the night. It will be sunny tomorrow so your tent will dry out and you can have a nice last day before leaving. Just make your seasoned camper check everything is batoned down.

last past

We used to love camping when the dcs were little and had some wonderful and some disastrous camps. Usually a bit of both.

One holiday in South Wales we had a glorious pitch overlooking the sea, which was fantastic until the last night when it blew up an absolute gale - Dh and I literally had to brace ourselves against the front of the tent at about 5am to stop it lifting up and blowing away. We almost lost the whole tent as we were packing up. The worst of it was Dh had looked at the forecast the day before and suggested we pack up early and I talked him out of it. It took a long while to live it down.

I love wild weather camping. It's a proper adventure.i used to ride to winter motorbike rallies and it often snowed. The atmosphere was great but riding home in the snow not so much 😂

After 5 days of rain, near La Rochelle (thanks to Tricolore French textbooks I thought it would be amazing, it wasn’t) I had a shitfit and refused to tent it any more.
I rang a holiday home company and told them I wanted to explore owning a holiday home nearby. The following day we were in a static caravan on a free three night break. It was warm, dry and I could pee in peace. It was blissful. In my defence, we owned a static caravan on one of their sites elsewhere in France, so I don’t feel too guilty.

I'm in my sleeping bag which thankfully isn't damp! DH is very good at pitching tents so ours is rock solid. We are heading home tomorrow anyway so I've had a large brandy in a hot chocolate, and wearing my fleecy Christmas Pyjamas so very toasty.

Kids have had a brilliant time, and generally I do enjoy camping just not when it's blowing a hoolie. Thank goodness for eye masks and earplugs.