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Bliss - I am going camping all by myself!

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Blu · 31/05/2012 16:28

Just me, alone. Everyone else is away for the weekend so I have taken the opportunity. Not only alone, but to an adult only site! (I do wonder whether that won't be a step too far and be a bit miserablist and grumpy-old-womanish), the Blackberry Wood overspill site. In August!

Really looking forward to it.

Has anyone else got experience of this? Anything I should know?

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Blu · 31/05/2012 16:45

Actually, not really by myself - my Icey Tek will be with me.

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RandomNumbers · 31/05/2012 16:54

Green with envy

Have a super time

jubilucket · 31/05/2012 22:42

I haven't camped by myself for 14 years... ddtwins are 13.

topbannana · 31/05/2012 23:27

I used to service the washrooms empty the lady bins on an adults only site. I had driven past the site hundreds of times and had often wondered (in an entirely non-smutty fashion of course :o) what went on behind the incredibly high privet hedges.

Sad to relate that when I got there the average age was about 70 and they seemed to spend all day playing bridge and discussing the Daily Mail (though I am not of course entirely sure they were doing this with their own spouses :o)

Sorry to put a dampener on the adults only thing but thats my only experience, and I could never forgive myself if you accidentally got swept up in a bridge playing, Daily Mail reading swingers party that I could in some way of prevented :o

Blu · 31/05/2012 23:30

No, Topbanana, and I would never forgive you, either, if such a fate befell me! The Daily Mail!

OMG, I really hadn't thought that 'adulst only' could be a euphemism or deep cover for swinging....

Has anyone any knowledge of Blackberry Fields?

eeep!

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chipmonkey · 01/06/2012 00:26

Childfree weekend camping has got to be bliss, regardless of the newspaper preferences of one's fellow campers.

topbannana · 01/06/2012 00:33

TBH it was the extraordinarily high hedges that gave me cause to wonder, how high are the hedges at Blackberry Fields?

chipmonkey · 01/06/2012 00:56

oh, isn't that where Sal camped ion her Bell tent in Winter? If that's the place there won't be a Daily Mail in sight!

Quenelle · 01/06/2012 10:43

We once recce'd Blackberry Woods for a group trip pre-children. We didn't stay in the end because the trek across fields to the nearest pub cost put us off.

I second chipmonkeys' assertion though, it is not a DM readers' site. Can't answer for other newspaper-reading swingers though...

Blu · 01/06/2012 10:45

Wibble wibble, should I go to Nethergong Nurseries instead?

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topbannana · 01/06/2012 11:20

Nethergong?! Fnaar fnaar :o

Sorry Blu not being much help really am I?

janinlondon · 01/06/2012 11:21

Have a vision of Blu driving to campsite, iceytek strapped into the passenger seat.......

Blu · 01/06/2012 13:10

PMSL at topButUnhelpfulBanana.

yes, Jan - that's exactly how it is - on it's first outing it was on the front seat - with the seat belt round it! Grin

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HepHep · 01/06/2012 13:12

This thread is fabulous Grin

I am going camping tomorrow for a week at an event with some friends and people I know vaguely. However (I'm a single mum) I will be leaving 4 year old DS with his granny, very looking forward to it! First proper break I've had since he was born, too. :) Camping alone is the business.

Blu · 01/06/2012 13:19

Have a great time, HepHep.

I have now discovered a naturist campsite in N Norfolk - it's a v small site, sounds lovely...I could be freeeEEEEEEEE like the wind without embarrassing DS.

More like freeeeeeeeezing IN the wind though.

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janinlondon · 01/06/2012 13:22

But Blu (ponders whether that's the colour you would be).....will your iceytek mind you gadding about starkers....????

Blu · 01/06/2012 13:24

My Icey Tek is happy naked as god intended, I don't even cover it with one of the special seat pads.

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