is this in Bala, Notwaving, or am I confusing you with someone else? Sounds brilliant - although I'm sure it's really annoying, some people across from us in Cornwall decided one night to sing along drunkenly til midnight when the wardens told them to shut up... the noise wasn't so bad (even though their taste in music ran to Dire Straits/Phil Collins/late period Elvis), it was the fact they didn't know any of the words to the songs and were getting them all wrong. Loudly. My inner pedant (which is never that inner, tbh), was getting more wound up about that than the noise!
Kingsy, hope the tear-aid works. I have a teensy tiny hole in my soulpad which I only noticed on the last day of our holiday, a perfect circle about 2mm across, which I am going to take a needle & thread to and darn like a sock. I have some matching thread and when I come to attempt to clean it after this coming weekend's adventures in Bedgebury, I shall try the mending.
I bought some spray Dettol mildew remover and although it doesn't say you can use it on fabric, I gave it a test on an oven glove that's made of thick cotton canvas, which DH had forgotten to bring inside after the last bbq we had, and had gone very mildewy by the time I realised (grr). It came up sparkly clean. I have now hung it up on the washing line and will examine it in a day or so to see if it's dissolved/rotted the fabric (my big fear wrt using a 'not specifically recommended for fabric' type remover) ... if not, then I will fire away with it on the soulpad!
Thanks again, btw, you are all lovely.
Now I have to sort out the logistics of Bedgebury. This is a girly camping weekend, me and DD with her bf and her bf's mum, whom luckily I also get on v.v. well with. We are going to drink wine and toast marshmallows while the girls make dens and run around. This is the theory, anyway... but as there will be 2 car seats in the back we can't do the usual thing of piling stuff up next to DD on the back seat, so must pack light. Curses.