Last night at 11pm I was
falling asleep when I wanted to be having fun with friends. I woke at
2.30am and with nothing going on lay awake for the rest of the night.
I heard someone go for a tiddle (and a fart) at 5am. I'm not
sure who it was, but I have my suspicions.
The weather forecast had
predicted dry overnight with rain starting at 6am. I heard the rain
start falling on the tent at 5.57am. Another bunch camping down the
hill from us must have heard the same weather forecast; I heard them
taking their tents down the moment dawn broke. They were long gone by
6am; but their tents would still have been wet with the morning dew.
One of the worst things
that can happen when camping is rain when you are taking the camp
down. That happened today. Despite my fervent hoping for things to be
different, the tents were soaked but they had to come down. We worked
hard, got everything packed and got the cars loaded up, said our
goodbyes and were off the site shortly after mid day.
We made good time getting
home. I arrived home shortly after Cheryl had delivered "Furry
Face TM" back home; he too had had a
holiday this weekend.
And once home we then
spent a little while (three hours) putting the camping gear
away. I managed to get the toilet tent and the banners on to the
washing line this afternoon and then spent a little while posting up
blog entries and photos
from the weekend to the Internet.
After an hour in the wind
the banners and toilet tent were dry, so I put them in the shed (I
will put them away properly in the week) and put out the carpet
to our tent as that was damp. I then put loads of stuff into the
dishwasher and washing machine and set them doing their things whilst
we had a rather good bit of scoff. Just as "er indoors TM"
set off bowling I got the (now dry) tent carpet in. There is
still a lot to be dried off during the next day or so (even if the
weather forecast is against it) but I'd rather not do it
overnight. I then emptied dishwasher and washing machine and gave
them both more to chew on and put the telly on.
There was quite a lot of
stuff on the SkyPlus box to catch up on; I watched it with a rather
soppy dog crashed out by my side.
Much as I do like going
camping there's no denying I do get rather homesick; and I certainly
miss this silly little dog...
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