no i'm not. What happened to the moldies thread?

[HullyEastergully]

eh?

Lowering anything is way beyond me. Although I did a bit of drilling today. How do you goabout lowering a camper van,Or any vehicle?

I want a camper can

Oh, yes Tufty, imagine a convoy of mumsnetters. We could trundle up the M4 like

Telly but don't the rusty ones cost loads to stop being rusty? I've bought a 1981 Leisuredrive. I'd have loved a 70's one but they are more than my budget.

MrsWembly I've wanted one for so long and then ridiculously in the summer I accidently bought a caravan. Which we never used. I've sold the caravan, sold 2 sofas and will sell a car. We should come out even. We've decided that if we don't like it/want it/too expensive/can't drive it we'll just sell it and probably get our money back. I want the DC to have adventures in it. before long they'll have grown up and we never had a camper. So, now we have

LittleDog can come, can't he?

Of little dog can come. Brown dog's coming. Not the cat with no name though. Oh no, no, no, no. I will make tea.

Of course LittleDog can come.

But I'm not taking FeckingAllergicCat. Or FatCat for that matter.

Or dh.

tifty darling have you really bought a van?

Oh, Tufty, is yours a real camper . I missed that.

My children's favourite memories of childhood involve camping trips, mostly in the pouring rain. Camping/caravanning is a real leveller.

One piece of advice: buy a plate/cup/bowl/cutlery for each person in the family, in a different colour each. And a drying up cloth. And make them do their own. They cop on really quickly and discover they can eat sausages from their cereal bowl and eat most food with fingers.

Washing up for five people can ruin a camping holiday.

Camper Convention

Yes Hilly I really, really have!

Very good advice Mary, I will get on to Amazon.

Tufty, mine was a t25 as well.

Was it you I was talking to on mn about camper vans last week?

Mine cost a fortune in keeping it rust free.

Oh, we can have sporks

Viva, I can't listen to talk of rust. I figure if we get a year out of it and then put it on ebay it'll be fine.

Sporks!

Excellent advice there, MaryZ. We are slowly introducing our DCs to the wonderful world of tents and I think that will do us for next summer when at least one of the blighters will be tall enough to reach the sink.

They don't have to reach the sink, MrsWembley. They can run it under a tap. There's always a tap somewhere on a campsite surrounded by knee deep mud where other kids have run their plates under the tap

I have another tip for you. In fact I have lots of tips, but here's one:

If you are camping by the seaside get them wetsuits, onsies, and wellies a size too big. That way you bring them back from the beach in their wetsuits, take them into the campsite shower, strip off wetsuits wash them and the suits, change them into their onesies and wellies, and march them back to the tent/caravan. If you don't like onesies, try towelling dressing gowns. But then you need thick warm socks.

Watched Masterchef now.
Have eaten all my burger.
Still pregnant and cross.

We're finished with haikus now though, aren't we?

PILs have a campervan. They won't lend it to us though, the meaners. Sigh.

someone linked to the Moldies site at the time and I tried to register cos I am nosy
About a year. later they sent me an email saying I had been rejected. I found that very strange. All a bit school bully-ish.

I like the idea of onsies, but I just don't get how they'd work... I mean, don't they need flaps or something?!

I leave you all alone for a day while my beloved "upgraded " my Mac to Mountain Lion, and you've all gone stark, staring mad.

YY to onsies at campsites.
yyy to lovely, lovely campervans.
(Mine had to go to the great campsite in the sky due to general wonkiness and being too old to get bits for)