To cold to camp?

[JumpShip]

The nice thing about an awning is being able to sleep with the sliding door open should one desire, maintaining privacy and keeping one cool.

We did this and was awoken by a noise early hours , shot up out of bed thinking we were being robbed only to find a duck that had commando under our van and into our awning .
I must have startled it as it repeatedly flew at the roof of the awning trying to escape, quacking loudly and crapping fluorescent yellow crap everywhere!
After a short while it scurried back out the same way it got in ....I lay back down and gave it a minute for my heart rate to get back to more normal....all the while thinking 'what the fook just happened' and who is gonna clean all this crap up ?
Scared the life out me!

 

[Sasquatch]

Christ on a bike! My lab is a gun dog, there would be merry mayhem if a duck came to visit us!

It does keep things cooler for sleeping though.

 

[JumpShip]

We have a dog now that can hear a spider fart at a hundred yards and would be up and growling so there's no chance we could sleep with the door open now .
She'd quite happily give chase and trash the joint in the process....

 

[GUMY]

You’re better off with an electric blanket. Best £20 we’ve spent camping gadget wise.
Aldi or Lidl are your best bets.

Middle of Lidl yesterday (Preston) they had a double Silentnight Self-Heating Mattress Topper - I think it was 35 quid.

 

[Captain Quick]

Yeh, I remember when I was a kid and waking up in my attic bedroom to frost/ice on the inside of the window. Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon.

Ah the good old days when central heating meant a bowl of hot gruel for breakfast… if you were lucky.

 

[Bav]

Ah the good old days when central heating meant a bowl of hot gruel for breakfast… if you were lucky.

I feel s skit coming on....

 

[Captain Quick]

I feel s skit coming on....

Ay. There’s nuthin’ like a good glass o’ Chateau du Chastelet….

 

[Kind of Blue]

Bread and drippin and a clump on the back the head for putting a scowl on.....miss those days......

 

[JumpShip]

You lot must be proper old

 

[Captain Quick]

You lot must be proper old

Yep. Brought up on the hardstuff…

 

[Bav]

Yep. Brought up on the hardstuff…

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I'm not that old!!

 

[Kind of Blue]

I remember cod-liver oil tablets as a child. I also remember that my parents bought a rather expensive Sun-Ray Lamp which I remember looked a little like those hairdryer contraptions that women’s hairdressers had. Their used to be a queue youngsters and parent from the area waiting for their turn. Always whiffed of Ozone and also a bit of a Palava wearing UV protection goggles. One only stayed under for a few minutes at a time, it was quite powerful.

 

[Captain Quick]

I'm not that old!!

I am. That stuff was seriously addictive.

 

[Salty Spuds]

I am. That stuff was seriously addictive.

Gripe water was even better, had the alcohol equivalent of a double G&T for a toddler. No wonder it kept us quiet.

 

[Captain Quick]

Gripe water was even better, had the alcohol equivalent of a double G&T for a toddler. No wonder it kept us quiet.

And warm… to get back on topic.

 

[Martinw]

Yep. Brought up on the hardstuff…

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My dad had lots of those in his shed, full of nuts, bolts, screws and other useful junk. All from feeding me when I first arrived. Big tins they were!