To ask posters to read which topic a thread is in before replying...

[JuliaDream]

I was on a thread yesterday which was not in AIBU, hard to imagine I know.

Posters were replying YANBU or YABU.

MN is not just AIBU.

Thank you

Living the dream! Who knew sitting in a shed with a gas canister could be the stuff of aspiration? Who's for a "Somebody has sat on my beach hut 'frontage'?" AIBU?

See what I did there? :) ¡

Yanbu, 26

Oooh I lubs a beach hut. My Godmother had one at Southwold and it was the best for a nice cup of tea (with condensed milk ) after a chilly swim... and she always had cake. (You could get changed out of your cozzie too without the wind whipping the sand up your important places.) She would sit and judge the neighbours while we played.

This happened to me on my first ever MN thread.

It must be five years ago now, I guess, but I had posted on one of the education boards about a particular issue concerning my dd. I explained that certain family members felt that I had made the wrong decision about something and I asked what MNers thought.

Lots of people came on and said "yanbu" and I had no idea what they were talking about! Took me ages to figure it out. If they had all said "yabu", perhaps I wouldn't have stayed!

I don't think it matters really if the yabu/yanbu terminology escapes from AIBU to one of the other boards. AIBU is only a part of MN, but it's quite an important part!

I don't think a beach hut would be for me. I stay fully clothed on the beach and I would struggle to spend any more than a few hours on one. And sand bothers me a bit.

We don't have beach huts in Ireland. We have wetsuits.

No matter what the weather we used to put the kids in wetsuits first thing. Then add suncream/sunhat or fleeces/wellies/woolly hats, depending on weather.

Then go to the beach. At the end of the day bring them home in wetsuits, put them in the shower in wetsuits, wrap them in towels and straight to pyjamas.

It made life so easy [nostalgic]

The big problem with the beach is that awful sand so that sounds very practical Maryz.

We used to stay in a mobile home (I think you call them static caravans?)

I wouldn't let the kids back until they had showers. I used to make dh take them to the public showers, not shower in the mobile. We had towelling dressing gowns for them to stagger back once washed.

I miss those days in the pissing rain and howling gale with whinging kids and no tv

YY a static caravan. We used to go to Lydstep Haven in Wales. Bucket to pee in if desperate in the night, and a toilet/shower block full of Daddy Long Legs. Perfect.

Those were the days ,no fancy toilets and showers in the caravans we used to stay in.

Not like today,the last caravan I stayed in was better than my house.

We actually had a shower/loo in ours, but I wouldn't let the kids in it.

And dh was forbidden to use the loo - it was only for emergency child weeing. I refuse to clean loos on holidays.

This summer I'm tenting in France. No loo to clean

We tried a caravan holiday about ten years ago. Kiln Park in Tenby, it was much the same as the 70s. Didn't do my research v well. Had to queue up in the bar for bed linen. What's that all about?

The mattress appeared to be covered in plastic so we went to Tesco and bought a proper deep quilted mattress protector and a decent quilt cover to start with.

We ended up in the one right next door to the shower block for the touring caravan/tent people. One person knocked to ask if they could borrow my hairdryer.

We had the class bear with us that holiday, and even he was depressed.

helpme a Southwold beach hut? The ones that cost the same as a small flat? Bliss!

I have terrible memories of caravan holidays. There was one where it rained continually for five days in West Wales and my mum had chronic morning sickness all day. We went home early.
And the one in France where my db wet the bed whilst in the top bunk made of a mesh. While I was in the bottom bunk. This was during a thunderstorm and I thought the roof had broken for one happy moment.

Oh dear Giddy

Mine are very nostalgic about the camping/mobile holidays. I honestly think that their beach memories are based on always being warm (hence the wetsuits).

dh and I otoh remember the rain, and the rain, and the wind and the rain...

If caravans are your thing...have you checked out George Clarke caravan man on the other thread?

What some of you go to the beach without your christmas tree? Odd.

Something for everyone, christmas trees and wind breaks, no beach huts sorry, but a nice bar at the edge of the sand.

good for stabilising sand dunes so I've heard.