And I Hope Life, Will Treat You Kind
And I Hope That You Have All
That You Ever Dreamed Of
Oh, I Do Wish You Joy
And I Wish You Happiness
But Above All This
I Wish You Love
I Love You, I Will Always Love You
Happy Anniversary!
When I wanted sunshine I got rain…
It’s funny how things pan out. While camping on Saturday night we were all sat around singing to country songs. Some Neil Diamonds came on and I happened to mention that he wrote a few tunes for The Monkees. Despite delving deep into my brain I couldn’t remember which one, although it just happened to be one of their, if not the, biggest hit. No one could come up with a title and without access to the internet, the thought passed. Obviously it was of little real significance and I never gave it another thought. Driving in to work this morning, I thought that I must do a look up when I get to my desk, I turned on the radio around nine, tuning into The Chris Moyles show, and Comedy Dave was just coming to the end of his “Tedious Link”… which just happened to be The Monkees: I’m a Believer, penned by Neil Diamond! Ker-Ching!
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The Devil went down to Georgia
So, despite the fact that all weather forcasters were forcasting really bad rain with some really bad wind for the weekend, we still went camping.
The first thing that I must point out here is that was not intended to be a camping holiday. It’s not about finding some idyllic place to spend a relaxing time, we do after all live in the New Forest, this is about five families getting together for a social weekend where all the kids can play together in a relatively free and safe area.
So, five families went down to Holmsley on Friday. Holmsley is about 30 minutes away from our house and thus close enough that we can bail out at any stage. The blokes went down first and set up the tents. The weather at this point was dry with a slight wind. We found a suitable location to create base camp, high enough away from the possible and very likely rivers of rain that would be descending into any camp placed at the base of any hill, and sheltered by a small copse. Five tents were pitched around a central multi-gazebo-covered eating and drinking sdtation, with an en-suite gazebo-covered field kitchen.
Friday went pretty much without hitch. The kids loved the freedom they got. We ate plenty, drunk plenty, and retired to dry and relatively comfortable tents.
Saturday. It rained! No really, all day! Yes, I know rain all day was forcast, but hey it’s a bit like the spanish inquisition. Despite that, the rain never put us off. We spent all day generally lounging around the camp, eating, drinking, and making adjustments to parts of the camp that would be affected by the water. We had to cancel the dressing up part of the western BBQ party that we were having as dressing up is pointless when you have to walk around in wellies and a coat at all times.
The kids loved the freedom they got. They got very muddy and very wet and went through all the extra changes of clothing that was brought for them pretty quickly. We ate plenty, drunk plenty, sung along to western themes and country soungs, and then retired to semi-dry, if a little suspect, and relatively comfortable tents.
It rained all night and the wind was pretty angry. I was sure that we were going to lose a tent or two either to the wind or the rain. It was a far cry from the experience of last year. Do you know what is the worst think about lying in a small tent, pitched near large trees, with a tropical monsoon coming down around you; newly forged rivers of rain winding their way around your tent creating makeshift moats around your thin, semi waterproof clad castle, and wondering how long it’s going to be before the hurricane that is whirling around you is going to take you off to oz? It’s having spent all day drinking beer and cider and needing to go for a piss every 30 minuites!
However, we didn’t have to bail and our little campsite pretty much held up. We didn’t get much sleep but we had a lot of fun…
Sources-
campervanfinder.com.au
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James Bond the Virginian
I was going through some CD’s in order to create a western style soundtrack for a potential camping trip over the weekend, local monsoon permitting; anyway I came across the theme tune for The Virginian. The start of it is the start of the James Bond Theme!
There you go.
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Energy Saving Lightbulbs – The return
Just thought I’d follow up my previous post on installing energy saving bulbs.
I picked up an energy saving GE R50 Spotlight to try out in the house it cost me about £4 from Tesco. I currently need 5 of these for Rebekah’s room and under the stairs. The good news is that unlike the GE R63 that I tried in the hall way, this one worked. The bad news is that it was too long! Too long? I really wasn’t aware that there is a length issue on bulbs. This is part of what makes the transition to Energy Savers far from straight forward.
Anyway, looking online I found that Megaman are doing a good line in bulbs that are almost a perfect replacement… the downside is that they are almost twice the price of the GE equivilents! They also have some good dimmable options too!
I also thought I’d hilight something that Ken said in the comments of the previous post… Basically that there is a ‘Warm Front’ grant that covers energy saving costs for Bulbs, Boilers, and insulation contractors Rochester NY for those recieving “Working Family Tax credits”.
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