As well is two words!
How does a sage know everything about everything? or does he? or does he just think he does?
Remember, if you buy something you bought it, not brought it.
Quote: Originally posted by blueexpo97 on 03/4/2024
That's a tad early for you Billy?
Hi Blue. Pitch prices for July/Aug through the roof in France last year also campsites totally rammed well into Sept so a rethink this year. Go early & go south with ACSI card in my hot little hand & save a heap of cash. Newhaven Dieppe half the price of any other crossing so that’s the route for this year.
As well is two words!
How does a sage know everything about everything? or does he? or does he just think he does?
Remember, if you buy something you bought it, not brought it.
To all those going away at this time of year, ENJOY! I hope you have a great time.
For us though, as we can only afford to go away a limited number of times, this time of year is way too early for us. We don't even start thinking about it until at least towards the end of May. Our caravanning holidays tend to be in June or early July, and September. When we are away in the caravan we like it to be warm and hopefully dry. If we go away before that it will be to stay with relatives, if we get an invite.
In any case, I am far too busy volunteering on a Heritage Railway. Easter weekend was hectic, and I am very busy again this coming weekend. I thought retirement was going to be relaxing!
We’re in Norfolk for a week. So far it’s been 4 days of constant rain. I’ve never got my money’s worth from an electric hook up before but I have this time. My little oil filled radiator has been constantly on trying to keep us warm. We’re on a grass pitch that is totally waterlogged & I think we’ll need a tractor to get us off it come Sunday
Not improved from our first & only trip this year, a month ago. We have a yellow warning for rain and for 50-70 mph winds in W Scotland & N Ireland with Storm Kathleen. I shall heed the warning to keep away from cliffs….
Just got back from 4 nights in Scarborough!
woke up on monday morning to things floating arounnd the awning, I thought that we had pitched in a pond. It is the first time that I have had to put my hands under water to remove awning pegs.
Packed the awning away and we were re sited to a drier pitch so alls well that ends well.
Stop raining! Don't be ridiculous! I've heard rumour they are going to rename the UK to UKALANTIS!
I've got a dog, she gets a decent walk of a mile or two at least, twice a day in the local park (which recently has fields frequently resembling paddy fields, and the river is also overflowing its banks and flooding paths!), plus a few 'wee breaks' in the garden. There are days on end I never seem to get entirely dried out, and the dog is permanently soggy!
I find that a great disincentive to go away, being cooped up in the caravan only seems to make it more miserable, and there doesn't seem to be any parts of the country that are reliably dry any more, the East Coast was always traditionally dryer than elsewhere, but not these days it seems! I've got friends who've recently moved to Lincs by the coast, and they got flooded, first time it's ever happened there!
I'm not really just a fair-weather camper, I love Yorkshire and Cumbria, hardly noted for their perpetual dry climate, but trading my home patch daily drowning for one elsewhere is just not motivating me at the moment!
All this talk of rain, reminds me of an ex-girlfriend who was renowned for saying "it's only a bit of rain, it won't kill you"! As I frequently pointed out to her, she was rarely actually out in it, she left her dry home, to get into her dry car, to go to her dry office! Whilst I spent hours walking my dog and getting totally saturated day in and day out, which she would just poo-poo, UNTIL, we had a week in a cottage in the Lake District, and the rain was Biblical and relentless, the locals said they'd never seen it so bad, and I'd never experienced anything so bad in decades of holidaying in the Lakes. Two days in to this holiday deluge, this 'hardy, bring it on' woman was whimpering at me to please can we pack up and go home! We stuck it out, but it was bloody awful, if that had been my first experience of the Lake District, it'd also have been my last! I know the region well enough to know that's not the norm, and it can and has been glorious weather on most of my visits.
The urge to get away is definitely there, but the weather really is putting me off. I can cope with a shower, I can cope with a 'wet day', but the perpetual, every day rain is too much!
Thanks all for reminding me why we don't go away this time of year.
Forecast is looking quite good in this area over the weekend, but I'll be inside a nice warm and dry train for most of it anyway, volunteering on a Heritage Railway. If you happen to be in Western Essex, drop and and see us.
Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 05/4/2024
All this talk of rain, reminds me of an ex-girlfriend who was renowned for saying "it's only a bit of rain, it won't kill you"! As I frequently pointed out to her, she was rarely actually out in it, she left her dry home, to get into her dry car, to go to her dry office! Whilst I spent hours walking my dog and getting totally saturated day in and day out, which she would just poo-poo, UNTIL, we had a week in a cottage in the Lake District, and the rain was Biblical and relentless, the locals said they'd never seen it so bad, and I'd never experienced anything so bad in decades of holidaying in the Lakes. Two days in to this holiday deluge, this 'hardy, bring it on' woman was whimpering at me to please can we pack up and go home! We stuck it out, but it was bloody awful, if that had been my first experience of the Lake District, it'd also have been my last! I know the region well enough to know that's not the norm, and it can and has been glorious weather on most of my visits.
Maybe because we live in Cumbria (South Lakes) we're not as bothered by swapping daily deluges at home for away!
I made the fatal mistake of putting laundry on the line this morning! Needless to say, half an hour later the heavens opened and it has poured on and off all day. I am really getting tired of it. We are away in a few weeks time so it had better have picked up a bit by then.
Had a walk today, cut the grass and did some chicken on BBQ Shock!
It was a bit breezy earlier. Another storm to come but looks like we are on edge of it.
------------- DS-There's more to life than football!!!
Certainly not very spring like especially in South.
Breezy and showers again here
Spent time on CMC site booked Channel crossings, Red Pennant and site bookings pre and post trip. 5 weeks in June/July. ACSIcard and Critair
Sticker obtained.
------------- DS-There's more to life than football!!!
A day of all things motorhome and campervan. The show is held both in the main indoor arena and across the grounds. Catering, hot drinks and food options are available. Easy access to the site and free parking included. Win one of five pairs of day tickets
Topic: Will it ever stop raining?
via mobile 03/4/2024 at 7:35pm
Shock! 
5 weeks in June/July. ACSIcard and Critair 
