I left the keys to our bike rack at home. We had five bikes on the rack at the back of the car which we were unable to get off. Worse still, we could not open the rear door so had to pass all of our camping gear over the rear seats in order to set up. After trying many local stores, we finally found a very helpful man at the local Jewsons building suppliers who lent me a pair of heavy duty bolt croppers and sold me a new padlock
We went away a couple of weeks ago for the first time this year. We took the double burner stove and had the car packed up to the roof when I remembered that the gas bottle was still in the garage. We then got to the site (3 hours away) and it wasn't until setting the stove up that I realised that we had forgotten all of the pans for cooking ! We were only away for a few nights, so ate out during the day and just ended up using the stove for boiling the kettle.......
Not me personally as I'm a total nerd and have a list on the computer so it all gets checked off once it goes in the car, HOWEVER, when I was a kid heading to the south of France with my parents we had to pull over three miles from home because Mum had forgotten the frying pan! BUT when we finally got to our destination she'd also forgotten a sleeping bag and a double airbed for me and my sister so we ended up sleeping on the rubber dinghy. It's a shame Mum didn't remember the more important things when we were three miles from home rather than in St Tropez lol!
------------- If you have a problem stressing you, sort it. If you can't, there's no point worrying about it coz it won't make a blind bit of difference!!!! Jules
We have only ever forgotten the very first thing normally packed, all of my 3yr olds meds (she has Cystic Fibrosis). We were 75 miles away when i realised. We pulled into locherbie and i ran to the nearest pharmascist explained the situation and he phoned our surgery who agreed for them to give us Flucloxacillin 3 bottles, ketovite tablets ketovite liquid, vitamin E, co-amoxiclav, fortunitly i always keep her creon in my bag or she wouldn't be able to have anything to eat.
last weekend we went hours drive to a camsite, sh!t i took a differant rucksack.
Fortunitly inlaws had a bottle on their mantle piece and drove the hour to give it to us phew.
I forgot my cooker when I went to a Land Rover show.
It was not all bad though, I found out that it is possible to boil a kettle on a Cobb barbeque.
The following day I went around the stands at the show and found a Coleman dual fuel double burner at a show special price that was considerably less than retail and they even threw a tank full of fuel in with the deal!!!!
------------- Love a lot. Trust a few. But ALWAYS paddle your own canoe!!
Minds are like parachutes:- They only function when they are open!!!
Those who talk don't know.
Those who know don't talk.
The funny part was I was stood in my shed with my mallet in my hand thinking " imagine going and forgetting the mallet what would we do". Got there and searched high and low saying to OH that I had stood in shed thinking about it..lol I was convinced it had to be there somewhere but had to borrow one from a fellow camper and upon our return there it was on the floor of my shed..lol. But hey don't beat your selves up about it, I have never been and not forgotten something. I too have computer check sheets, the works yet I always forget something
Its not that I exactly forgot something, I just took the wrong thing.
You see, the last time we went away, I packed my daughters knickers, not mine. She is a slim size 10. I,on the other hand, am not!!. I discovered my mistake in the evening. I was stuck in the showers trying to comprehend why the wretched things wouldn't fit?? Realising that they weren't mine, then desperately struggling to release my trapped legs, then wondering what to do?
Go comando, of course, and then wash the only pair I had got in shampoo, and dry in the sun, ready for tomorrow!
We have just got back from a week at Wild Duck and have only a few mobile phone photos to show for it!
After taking our Relum for its first outing at Easter minus both side panels, curtains & roof liners I was really looking forward to getting some great pictures of everything as it should be this time.
Except that I had the camera in my handbag, and when I tried to take the first photo the battery died. No problem, I think. The charger has been in the glove box since Easter. So off I go to get it only to find it absent. Turned out that OH had in his wisdom decided to remove it from the glove box LAST WEEK, and it was resting in a drawer in the kitchen at home.
So still no proper photos of my beautiful canvas house. Roll on next time.
Oh, yes. I also decided to believe the stupid weather forecast before we went away so took only long sleeved tops and walking shoes for myself. I had to buy T shirts and a pair of sandals while we were away.
I did the reverse, and went to the Peaks without a jumper. Did you know it's impossible to buy jumpers in July, even when it's f-f-f-freezing?
We're quite good on the not forgetting front, as most of our stuff lives in two crates in the loft and stays packed and ready to go. However, I sense a catastrophe about to happen as the peg collection is now far too large to fit in the crate and the poles for the bedroom are kept in a separate bag, with the groundsheet, or the tent is too heavy to get up into the loft. We could easily go away with no pegs or sans poles.
We also have lists, Mr F is positively anal about them. There are at least three, sorted according to location of item, order it goes in the car (Mr F goes into meltdown when we have to pack differently because I've bought something new, the order differs from his list), and alphabetically. I'm sure there are more.
It takes Mr F roughly twice as long to do all the ticking off of lists as it takes me to pack the bags and load the car. This is no bad thing, it stops him from getting under my feet and generally interfering.
we forgot towels last week so had to pop to the local market and buy 2, i have told hubby that the towels now stay in the 'bedding bag' as we nearly forgot them the week before as well
------------- A tent is like a newborn born baby..... to some they all look the same..... but if its yours it's beautiful.
:o) gillychick
Willows - Laceby March
Lee Valley - London May
Nanctol Wales June
Croatia September
undecided October
Not me, but on a very cold September night a couple of campers arrived really late on for just an overnighter, we got chatting as they unpacked and pitched next to us and realised that they'd forgotten their sleeping bags.
We loaned them our picnic rugs from under our airbeds but I bet they were still freezing that night. I know I was BALTIC with the rugs missing!
------------- Please forgive me if I ask too many questions - I'm learning :-D
Amazing family weekend with old steam engines, classic car displays, market stalls, and full catering and bar. And camping on site - Save £25 by booking in advance.
Topic: who`s forgotton what?
Realising that they weren't mine, then desperately struggling to release my trapped legs, then wondering what to do?
and then wash the only pair I had got in shampoo, and dry in the sun, ready for tomorrow!
