Camp News---- and mad idea # 610

Camp News


Campers are having a whale of a time. Camper Carys was bitten by ANOTHER wasp this morning..... wheras the other kids have the sense to RUN AWAY from them she picks up her hand and swipes them. Camper Adam desserted base camp last night and joined the neighbours campfire as they had marshmallows!!! Pauline and the kids arrived to join in the fun yesterday and they are at this moment and time eating pizza at pizza hut in Banbury... now why they abandoned one pot cooking over a stove for mouthwatering cheesy pizza I'll never know!


Mad idea #610

I have finally accepted that we are inthis house till we go to NM .. so that means true suburbia! ...no animals, no treehouses in the backyard and we'll always have nosy neighbours! I still refuse to compromise on the outdoor life for the kids but know it is insanely expensive and so out of our price range to buy a small holding. So...... I have been toying with the idea to buy some woodland instead. I have been doign some research and have found we can buy some woodland for a reasonable amount, clear a bit of it for a little camping outpost and then use the rest as an outdoor playground for the kids to explore. It will be a home away from home a weekend retreat when there is good weather to be had. There are strict rules about it though, its kind of like you buy the land but you cannot 'do' anything to it. Its to conserve what woodland there is left.... i.e we would never be able to build a cabin or anything permanent on it. We'd even have to apply for permission to erect a shed to leave camping stuff out there. This would mean no toilet... no trash facilities... no running water... etc.. you cart out what you cart in, no fences... But it would be our own place to escape. Now I only have to sell the idea to Patrick!

Still no sign of K so no camping for me.... patrick is still surviving but has expressed to me on the phone that he is stressed out from the constant Can i have... from Adam and Carys' histrionics when she doesn't get her own way.

This is great torture for men... let them look after the kids in a strange place with no electricity, basic toilet facilities, no TV, little toys and the contents of a cookout kitchen.. hehehehehe.