Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

The school holidays are over now, not that it makes much difference to me because I don’t work in a school, but the rest of the house have been off for two weeks.  Last week they all went off camping, leaving me to my own devices for a while.  I had a couple of evenings […]

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The weather was a bit poor, but our week under canvas still had plenty of highlights. For a start there was the campsite itself.
The showers and toilets were quite civilised and there was even a bath. We only have a shower at home so I enjoyed the novelty of lounging in a bath one […]

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The reason for the total lack of activity here (apart from Richard and Danivon bashing their heads together in the comments) is that I have been away on holiday.
In a fit of misplaced optimism about the weather prospects we booked a week camping on the Isle of Wight and just got back yesterday. We […]

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Jayne is away with the kids and her sister and her sister’s family. All together there are 3 adults, 5 teens, 3 children and a baby. Camping.
I declined on the grounds that thirteen is an unlucky number and I don’t do screaming babies in fields, and felt vindicated in my decision when we […]

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Wednesday morning I was woken by torrential rain. Having no clock or watch in the sleeping part of the tent I got up and Jayne and I sat outside under the gazebo and had a coffee, wondering if it would ever stop raining. Then we dug out a watch and found out that it was […]

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Holidays were a bit weird this year. Instead of going away for a long time we went away for four days, then came back home for a week, then went away for another four days. The first time we went away, Chrystal did not come with us as she was on her two-week annual […]

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One reason I could not get to the B4L meet-up in London this evening was that we only returned from another trip to Dorset today. After spending 90 minutes wrestling 3 wet tents into the car along with all the other paraphernalia, 3 hours driving home, and then re-erecting the tents in the back […]

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Eagle-eyed regular visitors, if there are any, will have noticed an absence of activity here recently. For a change this is not a result of idleness or ennui, but a result of me spending the last few nights in a tent in a field in Dorset.
Camping is not my idea of a good time, […]

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After many years of [insert non-sexist politically correct synonym for ‘nagging’ here] from the Mrs I have finally given in and agreed to go camping. The other week we bought a 2-bedroom tent, complete with airbeds and sleeping bags, and maybe next week we will take it down to Dorset for a few days.
I […]

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