The best thing to say to people who think camping is boring , dirty , cold......etc , just say to them " i take it you'll just be sitting in front of the telly again this weekend.........honest you can see them stop and think about it
Quote: Originally posted by Brettsy on 21/8/2010
Actually thinking about it I think Dylan used the words you can FOOL some people etc, rather than Please.
But hey I'm a bit squiffy on a Saturday night, and I think ya'all get my drift.
It was Bob Marley!! 'you can fool some people sometimes but you can't fool all the people all the time'
The best thing to say to people who think camping is boring , dirty , cold......etc , just say to them " i take it you'll just be sitting in front of the telly again this weekend.........honest you can see them stop and think about it
like that one, may just have to use it thanks!
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Vonnie
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KARSTEN CAMPERS DO IT WITH INFLATABLES (OO ER!)
I wanted to share this poem that I have pinned to the fridge door.
DUST AS YOU MUST
Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better, to paint a picture or write a letter, bake a cake or plant a seed, ponder the difference between want and need?
Dust if you must, but there's not much time, with rivers to swim and mountains to climb, music to hear and books to read, friends to cherish and life to lead.
Dust if you must, but the world's out there With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair, A flutter of snow, a shower of rain. This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must, but bear in mind, old age will come and it's not kind. And when you go - and go you must - You, yourself, will make more dust!
Life is far too short to dust, lets go camping!!!
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Vonnie
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KARSTEN CAMPERS DO IT WITH INFLATABLES (OO ER!)
I just love that poem!!
We are new to camping and I to had a very negative reaction when I told my family and friends that we had bought a tent and all the gear and was taking up camping!! Mother says “What you camping? I will belive that when I see it, you will be home before the first night is over!” How wrong was she? I loved it and itching to do it again, even though our tent leaked! (That's another story). Must admit though, had to have EHU or I wouldn't have done it. But now I've done it I would even do it without EHU as its just fab to camp. You know the saying,“Don't knock it, till you've tried it!)
I wanted to share this poem that I have pinned to the fridge door.
DUST AS YOU MUST
Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better, to paint a picture or write a letter, bake a cake or plant a seed, ponder the difference between want and need?
Dust if you must, but there's not much time, with rivers to swim and mountains to climb, music to hear and books to read, friends to cherish and life to lead.
Dust if you must, but the world's out there With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair, A flutter of snow, a shower of rain. This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must, but bear in mind, old age will come and it's not kind. And when you go - and go you must - You, yourself, will make more dust!
Life is far too short to dust, lets go camping!!!
not written by me, i might add. but my reason for not doing my house work
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Vonnie
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KARSTEN CAMPERS DO IT WITH INFLATABLES (OO ER!)
Quote: Originally posted by clunty on 04/9/2010
When looking in the window of a travel agents, my 10 yr old said "Look at the price of that, Mummy, you could buy a tent for that!"
------------- Life is to short to do the ironing....
Hi there dont post much but had to on this subject.
So just got back from 12 days in the lakes my son is 5 we are 35 25
my son climbed a 750 ft and 550 ft mountain and absolutly loved it stood in amazement at the views and how hed climed the rocks at the top.paddled in lake with mum and dad took boat rides off the mysterious mountains or bays.
played with all nationalities of childern day after day on a very safe relaxed site
toasted marshmallows and made popcorn and played glowsticks night after night with new found friends under the stars.
and fell into his sleeping bag night after night with the excitment of another day of absolutly fresh air and playing.
or maybe hed prefer getting a taxi for 2 hours squished, sit in airport lounge another 2 hours, sit on plane after a very long queue,sit on coach another 1 hour or so with hoards of people then stay in pool all day whilst mum and dad drink lager after lager then spend night after night in bar till fall aslepp either in pushchair or on seats pushed together till a rather drunk dad carries them home night after night to have to at end repeat the whole airport process again.oh yes and eat at mcdonalds each day as yes the ever so popular maccies is in cyprus portugal etc etc.
I have converted all my friends and work colleagues to my passion for camping. I even organised a work camping session in May gone in just a field with loos with no pub, shops, electric nearby. Most said they'd only come late Saturday afternoon and leave first thing Sunday as moaned about weather forecast, lack of things to do , for old foggies ( never seen any one over 70 putting up a Hartford XXL!!) kids need proper beds so won't sleep etc. Well ...when they got there after we'd been there since friday afternoon, saw our set up , the kids playing happily in the stream, playing, making friends, adults chilling, singing to guitar round big camp fire with marshmellows, then kids flat out having even a LIE in!!!
Was nice meeting partners/family of people you've worked with and all the other activities already mentioned here for free fresh air fun. They all begged me to book for a long weekend next year and consult regulalry with me on tents, airbeds, where to get glo sticks from ( as they had them in the 80's and didn't realise they still existed!!). Officially converted on a mass group scale!! lol
------------- It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
OK last time we went away we didn't do much - but that is because the kids loved staying on site. They played with other kids/had water fights, there was animal feeding, tractor rides of an evening. Meant we could sit around drinking cups of tea and reading.
For me 2 of the most important things about camping are,
1. lots of people will have holidays with their kids from the age of three(before this I'm not sure the kids remember)until the age 16/17. Then they go there own way. I figure about 15 years at 14 days a year maybe a bit more for the richer folk days a year equates to a maximum of 250 and more likely 200 days holiday in there lives. My target is that both my kids will pass 350 days holiday with me and my wife, and they're well on there way to do it
2 Nothing beats after dinner for me. Everyones fed, washing ups done the kids are playing and we can enjoy a glass of wine watching them play with their new pals whilst reading a good book
Thanks for the replies,
I am glad that im not the only one. Im taking the kids camping this weekend whilst all the other kids are sat in their houses watching ben 10 repeats. Rather them than me.
Quote: Originally posted by clunty on 12/8/2010
What on earth do they think you do, sit in a muck heap? What the flip can a 4 month old do to get dirty other than fill his nappy!
Er, actually my friend's baby spent most of the weekend sucking dirt off the spare tent pegs while his mother was busy sterilising bottles
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Topic: Peoples misconceptions about camping
