But I won't take too much notice of any of them from now on. Last friday it was a beautiful day, but heavy rain and cold forecast for fri night, and sat & Sun. After a big row with hubby on Fri morning, because he didn't want to go because the forecast was so bad, we went on fri evening. a very warm sunny weekend and not a drop of rain at all, so we stayed the sunday night as well.
Hi daleswalker, i got the long range weather on here,clicked the weather map on the opening page. I obviously know how our weather works so didnt take too much notice.
Im off to get waterproofs and will enjoy it whatever!!
When my kids where small I use to buy small toys, nothing expensive, whenever I saw them when out shopping and save them up to take away with us, then if there was a really bad day and we had to stay in, id give them one of the toys its amazing how long they will play with something new, like a new car or a small duplo model, also made paper planes and see who could get them to fly into a container, or early learning centre had some good craft kits.
Be prepared and you will have a great trip whatever the weather.
I have a box of toys such as colouring books and dough that is kept just for camping. As Fiona says its amazing how long kids will playwith something different or simply because it it the camping one rather that the identical one they have at home. Always bear in mind that there will be times, regardless of the weather when you have to or simple want to sit either in the tent or outside, simply enjoying the air. Having stuff for youngsters to do really helps - especially if they can do it with minimum supervision. I pick up things from our local bargain shop - the most expensive things being something that will last the season like a £3.99 blackboard. I never buy anything too expensive, then I'm not worried about it getting ruined, or disappearing if they are playing with other children. I keep some spare stuff hidden away at home, and replace the other bits as and when.
The only thing to remember when camping in the wet is to establish some good house rules - like peeling off wet outer layers and dumping them in the porch (if you have one) along with muddy boots etc, and try to keep at least one set of warm dry clothes in the tent so if you do get soaked to the skin you can strip, towel off and put fresh dry stuff on.
As for the problem of drying things out - I have fond memories of driving around Kilarney looking for a laundrette and then spending a happy hour chatting to locals in there whilst our kit dried!!
We have one really popular (and cheap) rainy day plan...head for nearest town, go swimming at the local leisure pool, lunch out then trawl round the local charity shops. Swimming pool gets you warm, charity shops usually yield enough cheap toys to keep kids going for a couple of days. PLUS....more spare clothes, if everything you took for the kids to wear is filthy and soaking wet.
One tip...if you`re going camping , take all the kids` oldest clothes. Mud ruins clothes once ground in and marinated in a laundry bag for a couple of days. Camping ruins kids` clothes, period. Don`t take clothes you`re going to stress over keeping wearable. Tough shorts, wellies, fleeces and more socks than you`d belive possible, preferably of the 5-pairs-for-£1 type that you can regard as disposable. (I swear by Tesco Value socks for kids on campsites.)
The only thing to remember when camping in the wet is to establish some good house rules - like peeling off wet outer layers and dumping them in the porch (if you have one) along with muddy boots etc,
Ooh, absolutely. No wet clothes in sleeping pods, ever! Once your bedding gets wet, you might as well go home.
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Topic: wet weather advice.
