Lijaboc ……. You can’t get away with that , not on here .
We need details , explicit details of your embarrassing moment in Cornwall .
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Apparently we had storms last night . I didn’t know anything about them until I heard my wife telling her Mum this morning . I slept all through them
……… but then I was in the pub earlier !!!!
You are doing a great job SP trying to protect and help the wildlife particularly with the dwindling numbers of some species.
Ok Walt, you want it you'll get it, although I must warn you it is very tame and not controversial or salacious in any way, just personally embarrassing, full unabridged story coming up:
We booked a camping holiday in Bude, and it had an ominous feel on the day we left, dark grey skies, around 12 miles in on the dual carriageway I looked in the rear view mirror and saw various bits and pieces flying off the roof rack, luckily it was pretty early so hardly any traffic around so I pulled over and carefully retrieved what I could, although there is a very rotted sleeping bag still lying in a ditch somewhere.
Off we went and then it started to drizzle and by the time we got to Exeter it was raining quite steadily, we carried on regardless and by the time we got to the brow of a hill approaching Bude the town was bathed in sunshine, great a change in our fortunes (or so we thought), got to the campsite and was told by the Receptionist that they had a cloudburst a little earlier and our pitch was still underwater so we were moved to a pitch higher up.
Tent erected and everything installed, the wife said she would go into Bude and get some groceries, when she got back I was greeted with the usual "I've got some good news and bad news", the good news being that the AA do a 24 hour service, the bad news - the car is ok until it gets up to about 30mph and then a horrible rattling noise kicks in. Phoned the AA about 6pm and around 1am we could hear the sound of a noisy large vehicle coming down the site, it turned out to be a large recovery truck looking for us.
The AA guy looked under the bonnet and all around the car but could not find anything at all wrong with it, finally he suggested that we take the car out on the road to see if the rattling sound would re-appear, I took him out to the nearest road and sure enough at about 30mph the sound started up, he turned to me and said "that does sound bad doesn't it, but I can tell you what it is - it's the sound of the wind going through your roof rack" (it was the first time we had used one). I did the only thing a red faced person could do - offered him a cup of tea, which he politely refused as he wanted to get back to Barnstaple about 30 miles away.
Post embarrassment: What was left of the night went fine, and then it started to rain early the next morning and it rained virtually non stop for the next 4 days, it was so bad that the childrens' play area suddenly had a spring emerge, and behind our tent a small stream appeared that seemed to go through the middle of our neighbour's tent. I won't go into the smell when we lifted the ground sheet sufffice to say that the site was an ex-farm and we were on the part where they kept the pigs.
We did get a Christmas card from the owners that year containing a £5 voucher for our next stay, funnily enough we never took up the offer!!