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I keep thinking that someone, somewhere, should write a book about camping aimed at the leisure market in the UK rather than Scouts or the USA market. (Let`s not mention the dire Camping For Dummies, here, OK?) There`s so many new folk taking up camping that it`s perfectly possible for a campsite to be full of first timers and first seasoners nowadays, while ten years ago there was always a grinning ring of seasoned old timers far too ready to point out everything you were doing wrong when putting up your tent. (Ask me how I know......) The "lore" just isn`t getting handed down the way it used to, not unless you grew up in a camping family. That`s why this place is so useful, I think.

Incidentally, last time I was out, two weeks ago, it was so windy I broke a pole on my brand new Vango Oregon when putting it up. Nothing to do with a poor quality tent or me not knowing how to pitch it...it was just that the wind was too strong and caught the tent the wrong way as we were putting it up. It happens.