The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

ellie99

Monnagran, I've often thought that it would be a good thing if we DID melt, if going out in the rain just melted away the extra fatty bits I'd rather be without :-)

I like today's thought for the day, although I did read it as "We've got another chance...to goof it up again".

As a teenager my aim was to run a caravan site. It never happened, although I did once offer on a house which had land attached with planning permission for a site. When I was young and could do anything! Our offer wasn't accepted, life would have been very different if it had.

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Married to my first husband we lived in a caravan for a couple of years when he was working on site. We have had touring caravans, loved it went to so many places in England and France. We sold our last one 3 years ago before we moved here, although we had a motor mover we were beginning to find driving etc stressful. We had been able to keep it where we lived, we could not have done that here, there is a clause in the lease, storage is very expensive these days unless you have a friendly local farmer. I have to admit I do miss it.

Spoke to the hospital this morning re OH they said he was ok.....hmmmm I wonder what I will find when I go in later. Have had his sister on the phone, she is on holiday in Majorca.......is going to ring again tonight. Also had the support officer on from the council, the emergency phone did not work on Friday.

Washing in, I am going to put it in the dryer, it hirts my back if I reach up........want it dry out the way anyway and we are forecast rain, although its sunny right now, but a lot cooler.

nursemaggie

Happy Birthday Ginny Knit :bdaycake: have another cake there are a lot of us now we might need three.

Welcome back Cheapskape nice to see you both.
Back in the days when I did all the decorating. I used to use maternity smocks for decorating. There was lots of material in them so I used the fronts as cloths as well. No having to look for the cloth. I used to buy them at jumble sales.

We used to have a VW camper van. It was only a 2 birth, DS started off in the hammock over the front seats and then we put him an air bed on the floor. Once he got too big for the space and his legs were under our bed we had to rethink it.

On the way back from Somerset one weekend we spotted a trailer tent for sale and bought it. One weekend the tent split so we had a modern tent that goes up in no time. My ex suggested a 10 man tent for just the three of us. We hung on to the trailer and the kitchen bit so much better than having to bend down for cooking.

We had about 12 years of freedom with the camper van and the tents. Went away a lot during the summer and even went away as early as Easter.

I hope you find what your looking for Ginny Knit.

silvasava

Many Happies Ginny!
I'm another one who caravanned for years - loved the freedom to go where and when we wanted and no set times for meals. In our first 'van we had to make the bed up every night so that was swiftly exchanged for one that we could leave the bed up - the last one had a fixed bed (lots of them do nowadays) & we used it all year round. We sold it 18 months ago as our lifestyle is changing so it wasnt getting used but I still miss it on occasions.

LameWolf

Hoppy Birdday Ginny.


I've only ever stayed in a caravan once. A week in Devon, when I was 12, with my parents. I hated every minute; it rained the entire week, the 'van was tiny and uncomfortable, and a week in that close proximity to my father nearly turned me into a nervous wreck. :eek:

Actually, thinking about it... it was about then that I was first put on anti-d's. Hadn't made the connection before.

THIRZAH

The only time we stayed in a caravan it rained all the time too. DDs spent much of the time watching "Big Brother".That and the sound of rain on the roof nearly drove me up the wall.



Half way through the week we had to go out and buy new towels. Nothing was drying in the caravan the atmosphere was so damp.

System

Caravanning... loved it when the kids were little. Not so special now the kids are grown up with lives of their own. I think the kids made it special.

Memories.....My 4 year old daughter dropping her teddy in the brook and getting soaking wet trying to retrieve it. AG Bear never did talk in the same voice ever again.

In competition with the brother in law as to who could drink the most whiskey and still stand up. I won. He fell over someones tent trying to get back to his caravan. Sod me i was ill the next day and being a functioning parent was hard. Not impossible but hard.

Church holiday. Ought to have been tee total really but all the 'unsaved husbands/wives' congregating in our awning and getting lathered.... Twas all well and good till i took the empty beer tins out to the rubbish the next day... meeting the pastors wife on the way.:D Remembering the poor sod next to us who went to bed in his tent only to find only the inner tent left after a gale we had overnight.

Caravanning on a site, going there with one caravan and coming back with another.:o

Setting up on a site miles from home before discovering we had forgotten the seating cushions which were stored at home in the loft.:rotfl:

A toilet tent blowing over and leaving one unfortunate fellow on the portaloo.:rotfl:

monnagran

I actually owned a caravan on a beautiful site here on the island. It had 3 bedrooms, shower room all mod cons including a veranda all the way round. It was next to some trees where red squirrels frolicked and overlooking a beautiful Sandy bay with a path from the caravan that led down onto the beach.
It cost an eyewatering amount but I had the money from my dad who had just sold the family home.

My naive idea was that it would be used for the family to have a holiday once a year and the rest of the time it could be used for families under stress who wouldn't be able to afford a holiday otherwise.
The first year the site managers offered to do the lettings for me which they assured me would cover the site fees and the rest of the money would be mine. Being new to the game I agreed. I still wanted my family to have the 2 weeks holiday I had promised them and was somewhat taken aback to have to pay the site top wack for that.
The money taken that year just about paid the site fees and extras, I was told. Nothing left over for me..
The next year when I took back control the site fees doubled and everything was an extra....Gas, electricity, water, insurance, security, grass mowing, maintence, inspections, lightbulbs, think of a word and somehow that was an extra that had to be paid for.
It crippled me financially and altogether it lasted 3 years before I sold it.

Even then they hadn't finished with me. They offered to buy it back from me for less than a tenth I had paid for it. I declined. So if I was going to sell privately there were even more charges for all sorts of obscure reasons. By that time I just wanted shot of it and sold at a tremendous loss.

A very, very expensive lesson.

Slinky

Judi wrote: »

Church holiday. SNIP

A toilet tent blowing over and leaving one unfortunate fellow on the portaloo.

Is that where your signature came from?

Helebore

My parents had a caravan too. I hated it. My dad snored. Loudly. Horrid horrid horrid. Don't think I would like it much now either. Uck.