AIBU to let them camp on an island overnight?

[chomalungma]

(Inspired by another thread)

We are on holiday in the Lake District. Lovely cottage. DH is working away. DC's have seen a lovely island and want to go camping there for a few nights. Light a campfire, cook for themselves. They'll get there by sailing boat. Youngest is 6 and oldest is 14.

Would you let them go?

Are messages on arrows recognised by The Land Registry?

I'm inclined to think that on balance, anyone who is lazy and slapdash enough to post on an AIBU thread without bothering to read even a few posts other than the OP let alone RTFT, probably shouldn't be letting their kids do anything that requires a good level of planning, skills, self discipline and common sense.

@chomalungma

Are messages on arrows recognised by The Land Registry?

I don't know, but I recognised that an arrow on the path meant we shouldn't help ourselves to the aforementioned hoard of gold coins.

I am quite impressed there's been over 700 votes. Its a good thing the mum didn't post in AIBU for advice. I wonder how many people would say contact DH for permission.

Well, you know maybe the immortal telegram

Better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown

should be the motto for AIBU

(I imagine I must be one of the few posters on this thread to remember telegrams & have actually received & sent them).

(My post was in response to @ErrolTheDragon btw.

Peter Duck and We didn’t mean to go to sea were my two favourites. Arthur Ransome gave me a life long love of sailing. And our children as well...

@CatandtheFiddle that would be really funny if people used that phrase on other AIBU threads

the immortal telegram....

Is it the most famous telegram in literature? I'm sure I know of others, just struggling to think of any right now.

Telegrams in literature ... well, if you count Punch then 'Peccavi'? Extract from a wiki page

. Napier was supposed to have despatched to his superiors the short, notable message, "Peccavii^", the Latin for "I have sinned" (which was a pun on I have Sindh). This pun appeared under the title 'Foreign Affairs' in Punchh^ magazine on 18 May 1844. The true author of the pun was, however, Englishwoman Catherine Winkworthh^, who submitted it to Punch, which then printed it as a factual report.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CharlesJamess_Napier

I've enjoyed reading this thread! I never read Swallows and Amazons when I was growing up I wish I had now. I was obsessed with The Famous Five.
It was still obvious to me it was a joke though after the first couple of pages because I actually RTFT 😂

Errol, I remember my O Level history teacher telling us about 'peccavi', but as far as I recall, he told it as if it was genuine.

🥇 for you @RightOnTheEdge

@askgoogle

As a very laid back parent I wouldn't even consider this

Not even though three out of four of the children can swim just fine, and the elder girl is happy to do all the cooking over the camp fire? What on earth could go wrong?

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross the more I think about the books the more I realise just how much did go wrong. Thankfully, all the children are resourceful and resilient enough to solve all problems (and without even recourse to a phone or the internet)

Is it the most famous telegram in literature?

E. M. Forster's 'telegrams and anger' in Howard's End, but I can't remember whether we ever read a telegram text in that novel ...

And does Dickens ever do telegrams? Certainly, the transAtlantic cable was (finally) laid in his lifetime.

And what a pity Friar Lawrence couldn't have sent a telegram ...

@CatandtheFiddle

And what a pity Friar Lawrence couldn't have sent a telegram ...

Technological advances have ruined so many stories...

Marking as an avid S and A fan (two sets of the entire series of books). Paperbacks for reading, the lovely hardbacks for display.

Nancy is my favourite character. Always found Titty and Dorothea a bit annoying.

I googled telegrams in literature and there are plenty of telegrams from and to famous writers but I couldn’t find anything about them in fiction.
What about in Brideshead Revisited when Lady Marchmain is making difficulties about Julia’s marriage to nom Catholic Rex Mottram and he wires Lord Marchmain to ask if he has any objection to the wedding taking place withnProtestant rites and Ld M cables back ‘delighted’.
I’ll try and think of some more.

Not having read the book, skimming the OP would make no difference and I fail to see how that makes others tripped up by it stupid, it’s just so grim.

I haven't read the book but I got that it was a children's book, I'm guessing from the 1940/50s.

To any FF fans, have a look at the Comic Strip Presents version.

Telegrams feature in Cold Comfort Farm iirc.
I am also old enough to have sent and received telegrams. Bizarrely I have the telegrams from my parents' wedding, but not ours.

Reading the book at the moment.
Should I have mentioned a deal with the local farmer to get fresh milk straight from the cow every morning?

Not having read the book, skimming the OP would make no difference and I fail to see how that makes others tripped up by it stupid, it’s just so grim

There's nothing as funny as someone having a strop because they didn't understand at first what was being discussed. Bless. Like a sulky 8yo.

@EatsShootsAndRuns

Not having read the book, skimming the OP would make no difference and I fail to see how that makes others tripped up by it stupid, it’s just so grim

There's nothing as funny as someone having a strop because they didn't understand at first what was being discussed. Bless. Like a sulky 8yo.

TBF - it's obviously fine if people don't get the reference. But that said, if people are still commenting on the OP despite the many many references to S&A, as well as commenting on the books, then that does say something about their approach to MN threads,