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Date: 29 May 2007 10:44:45
So sunday was off to hols, much needed hols in fact. Work wise things have been manic since I can't remember when and it never seems to get any calmer so family decided at short notice to decamp to Littlehampton and have a couple of days off of everything. Oringinally we'd planned to go on the Saturday but then I remembered I'd bought two tickets to see Larry Norman in Portsmouth that day and since that's a pretty rare occasion I didn't want to miss it so we shifted things to the sunday.
The campsite had had a couple of cancellations so we were in.
That should have been the first sign of impending disaster.
All the way driving down it was pretty bad rain.
Which was the second sign.
We got there, kids stayed in the car while wifey and I put the tent up in the rain. Which was fun. The wind was blowing pretty badly which bent two tent poles out of shape as we tried to get the thing to stand.
But we soldiered on.
Once the tent was up, well, it was too wet to stay and too wet to go and do anything so there was only one solution: go and find chips somewhere. We went to the Harvester in Littleh and, after a delay - the place was packed - we found some food and fed the kids who had been amazing all the way through. Found out, accidentally, that a friend was in the very same place although sadly not until the next day when we caught up by text.
Had to rearrange the tent a couple of times, once when a massive pool of water threatened to soak where we had the sleeping bags and once when it fell down during the storm during the night. We didn't sleep much, which did put us in mind of people who have no place to sleep at all anywhere. The next morning son boy was up and happily mooching around at 5, when I say mooching I mean jumping on all of the air beds. By midday, more rain, soaked sleeping bags, leaning tent, the whole kit and kaboodle, we decided that four days might be too much. Got home, put the heating on amd were thankful for the place to stop and enjoy no rain and no wind. Took a long, long while to warm up though - during the night I was teeth chatteringly cold and soaked - which put me in mind of when father in law and I had had a bad case of pneumonia when a car stopped working and we got left behind....
Fun times....
Anyhow, back now, trying to holiday from home but that's trickier, fams just out getting some picnic stuff and we'll hit the park before the clouds get too heavy.
Larry was ace though.