As it is a wet Sunday, tent talk. What do you do when I rains and you are camping?

[Blandmum]

Are you intrepid, put your wellies on and walk in the rain and the mud types?

Or do you all snuggle up in the tent, drinking hot chocolate, eating cakes and reading books?

(sugestions of 'go to a hotel' will be politly ignored after a rueful grin )

Last year it rained the whole week we were camping in July

Having two small kids with us it wasnt possible to sit and relax so we were out in the mud types.

I hope this year, the summer is better.

It's pretty bleak, there's no soft soaping. I insist on pub lunches. Sometimes you just have to put on waterproofs and brave it, but having a tentful of wet clothes is miserable.
It's slightly easier to brave it in the woods because of the cover.

We haven't been camping for years, since I was pregnant with dd, but we would do either, depending on how the mood took us. Sometimes we were in the mood for getting wet so went for a walk, other times we weren't so stayed in the tent (usually getting wet, it has to be said!). I remember being in Glen Coe in a lovely forestry commission site, snuggled up with hot chocolate and chocolate biscuits, being dripped on in various places as we discovered new leaks in the tent, and being perfectly happy about it - not sure I'd want to do it with the almost-5-year-old and her incredibly short attention span though.

it sounds nicer on line than in relaity (the chocolate cake and books)..it sepends how big the tent is and how far through what to the toilets...

indoor swimming, beach or pub

Actually dh does a nice trick with a tarpaulin and makes a little sit down area between our two tents. It's well worth it. Or you can buy those garden shelters/gazebo type things. They do tend to blow away in the wind though.

last time we also took the EHU and set up a DVD!

Softy me!

I don't even know what an EHU is.

We went camping last August for the first time since having the three kids. So of course we had a few days of torrential rain and freezing weather...........

In the evenings we did drawing, DSs played gameboys, we read books nad we played 'hunt the slug' (b*strds). That fun game involved using torches to find the slugs and then seeing who could flick them out of the tent with a fork in one shot.

During the day we just went out in the car and looked for indoor things to do. We weren't very prepared as it was a last minute thing, so I was often forced to just grab people with kids in shops and ask them to point me towards things to do!

We're planning on going to North Wales this summer (hopefully to a rather spiffy campsite Moondog recommended on another thread) and I will research and plan rainy and dry activities before we go.

As I'm in full smug flight today I have to say that it really pisses me off if neighbouring campers have noisy gadgets and music. We go camping to get away from that stuff after all.

spidermama - I'm with you. I want P&Q on my holidays (which is why I go to the Highlands of Scotland away from everyone!). Love camping, don't like people closer than two miles! ha ha

In our favour, can I say we are very quiet campers!

I have to say that although many of the tents around us had TVs and DVDs (one tent with two youngish men had an XBox we didn't hear a thing from them. On the non flood nights the worse noise was from the kids let loose until 10/11pm whose parents seemed to think it was ok for them to scream like banshees whilst running round and round other peoples tents. No problem with kids in the playground or just generally running around, but shrieking 2 foot from my ear is a tad annoying.

We have the portable DVD player too!!

Actually DH and I used it last time in france, the kids would have a sleep and we would watch a film!!