Friday morning, and indeed some of Friday afternoon, passed in a bad tempered haze of packing, carrying, putting into car, realising it wouldn’t fit, taking it out of car, repacking and so on. Not much fun. I had wanted to be away by midday, in the end it was (just) after 3 🙁
At least we had a good drive though, although I was less than impressed when the heavens opened extremely impressively when we were just 10 miles from our campsite.
Putting up the Montana 6 Man Tent
was made much easier by Em running off with soa – she had one baby strapped to her front and one to her back, go Em! And soa was very happy with it. Also grateful to help from various not so small children – Big, Sb and Barbara’s E.
Tent is slightly more difficult to put up in light wind with rain showers, but we still got it up in under 40 minutes. Given that it goes up with inners and groundsheet already attached means that it’s then just a case of chucking the carpet and bedding in and you’re ready for the first night, a definite bonus.
Life took a bit of a nosedive though, when I got the stove set up and discovered I’d left a piece at home 🙁
Thank goodness for friends. Especially for friends with the same stove, so they can lend you the bit you are missing 🙂 Pasta and sauce for tea, and really the children were just happy to be in a field with their friends, meaning that I could be happy to be in a field with mine 🙂
Saturday morning and as usual we were pretty much the last ones out of the field. Though we did then bump in to theBabs in the Tesco carpark where we’d stopped off for packed lunch supplies 🙂 Which in turn meant we arrived at FoH in the rain, sigh. But it was a short sharp shower, and by the time the second one arrived we were safely ensconced in the YAC tent dissecting poo. (Well, OK, it was plasticine poo, but it was still a very interesting activity. Particularly for Small, who spent over 20 minutes making sure he had every last seed and stone out of his portion, doing an extremely thorough job of it. More thorough than the ppl manning the stand had ever seen before in fact!)
Thankfully that was pretty much it for rain for the afternoon, meaning that we could sit and eat our lunch at the Victorian seaside while the children watched Punch and Judy and then something about Robin Hood I think (may edit if I can find program). Rest of afternoon was just wandering around the various encampments and medieval market where the children bought a few bits, and then we headed back to the campsite for an evening of bubbles, friends, marshmallows and sky
lanterns. (Can’t believe I didn’t get pictures of the sky lantern! But here’s some others.)
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