ooooh - have just booked a camping pod in the Lake District!

[DottyDot]

OK, OK - I know it's not real camping, but I'm horribly excited!

Dp's got a busy weekend in a few weeks' time so I'm taking ds's up to the Lake District for such delights as the Galactic Emporium (a must for any Star Wars fans), followed by a look in every trashy toy shop in Windermere, then off to one of the National Trust campsites for a night in a camping pod.

So, no putting the tent up on my own and a cosy night with the boys.

I've never stayed in one before, so please don't tell me they're hideous/full of spiders..!

What's a camping pod? I'll bet they're full of spiders!

Is it one of these? It does look lovely! And it must be fine if it's in the Guardian!

yes it's one of those!!

Can't do spiders though - at all - and for some reason we don't seem to get any in the tent - but I bet they'll love a wooden camping pod...

Dot, you have two boys, don't you? You do know the reason for having boy-children is that they are very good at picking the spiders up by their dangly legs and putting them outside. This is the sole reason that I continue to feed and clothe ds1. Otherwise he'd have been down the mines by now!

I wish..! Ds1 isn't too bad but unfortunately ds2's like me - which is annoying as I've spent all their childhoods not shrieking every time I see one, but being horribly brave - whilst getting dp to deal with them immediately..!

So, I'll just have to find a fellow camper to remove them - and take the shame...

my boys take pleasure in my spider shrieking! I am worse as I also have a fear of Daddy-Long-Legs and moths. (And yes, I know it's irrational!)