A camp weekend
March 31st, 2005 13
There’s nothing quite like waking up at 4.30am on a very cold night, desperate for the loo, and then realising you’re in a tent on top of a foggy hill in the middle of Derbyshire. It’d actually been a really nice sunny good Friday, perfect for mountain biking. So we set off: Four blokes, one van and Jayne - Gripped, sorted, we were ready to off-road.
The riding was good, nothing too challenging, just easy riding to ease us back in after the long winter. So as we left for the pub about 5.30pm the sun was shining and all was right with the world. The meal was awesome, and spirits were high, so we decided that camping would actually be a really good idea. I knew of a camp-site, nothing special, but this was camping right? We’d got tents and sleeping bags, what more did we need?
We set off, Jayne leading the way, the last of the warm spring sun disappearing behind the rolling hills. About half way to the site, a few spots of gentle rain began to appear on the windscreen. We wiped them away. The roads became windier (is that a word) the closer we got, the rain was now slightly more than a a gentle smattering, and we were starting to think this was a bad idea. We finally arrived at eric byne camp-site it was dark, pi**ing down, and bloody cold.
After trudging up and down the hill several times, even the trip to the pub didn’t cheer us up much. All I can say is thank the Lord for Little Chef!
13 Comments (+0 in the moderation queue).
#1 On March 31st, 2005 at 6:35 pm kris said...
I ****** HATE CAMPING!!!!
#2 On March 31st, 2005 at 8:25 pm derv said...
“The riding was good, nothing too challenging, just easy riding to ease us back in after the long winter”
speak for yourself, it nearly killed me!!
#3 On April 1st, 2005 at 7:43 am rob said...
Dude congrats on your theme winning man!
Pixel Perfect Design Prize Winner !!! Dude thats great !
l8r Rob
#4 On April 1st, 2005 at 11:23 am Paul said...
Perhaps you should mention who Jayne is?
Oh and the landlords directions (you’ll see a pub on the right - keep going, just keep going, don’t turn off, just keep going… repeat to fade), and perhaps more emphasis on the cold and wet, the freezing temperature and the rain - oh and the fact that it was cold and wet.
Perhaps something my blog…
#5 On April 1st, 2005 at 11:59 am Jon said...
Jayne, oh Jayne how I love you. Light of my life, you are the yin to my yang. You don’t say a lot, but when you do you say it twice. I could listen to your dulcet tones all day. A poem…
Oh Jayne,
Oh Jayney, Jayney, Jayne,
Whoa Jayne,
Not that way love it’ll take us through the centre of London you stupid bi***
*sniff*
#6 On April 1st, 2005 at 12:14 pm Kris said...
What did you just call Jayne????
I’m gonna have to ask you to step outside!
#7 On April 1st, 2005 at 12:33 pm Jon said...
It’s only cos I love her so, we all get a little frustrated sometimes baby, I’m sorry. It’s like the time I ejected her SD card, you should have heard some of the names she called me, the air turned blue!
#8 On April 1st, 2005 at 1:46 pm sturdy girl said...
i feel ur pain..dad used to think rough camping in scotland was a great idea! but he was anti camp sites..he was all for going out with a compass and praying we’d arrive where he thought we were headed, not to mention the mooks in scotland are vicious - i think they shrpen their teeth! add thte joy of digging ones own loo and you have the basic skeleton of my summer holiday’s trauma..one piece of ‘character building’ my kids WONT be subject to!!
#9 On April 1st, 2005 at 3:28 pm Kris said...
Hey, I’ve just noticed i’m Swedish if I post from work, hmm thats rather clever!!!!
I’ll let the Jayne comment go just this once!
#10 On April 1st, 2005 at 3:31 pm Jon said...
Yeah, what’s going on with that? It’s based on your ip address, is your company Swedish? Somehow you have a Swedish IP address. Ok, that’s enough geek rant.
#11 On April 1st, 2005 at 3:33 pm Kris said...
Yes mate, Scania is a Swedish company and all our servers are in Sweden. We have a big picture of Ulrika Johnson on the wall!
#12 On April 1st, 2005 at 3:40 pm Jon said...
You lucky, lucky sods. We have to have a picture of the Queen. Gawd bless her.