Its raining...

Quite right. Makes you feel vulnerable but in charge at the same time (ooo, hark at me the poet!).

Often tempted to put my tent up in the back garden but I'm worried the locks might get changed while I'm in there.  :shock:

I remember the last camping holiday with parents was up in West Yorkshire round Bronte country. I think it was June or July but weather was like this. We found a farm to pitch on before it got dark and spent the coldest night I've ever known fully clothed in sleeping bags shivering, just hoping mornign hurried up and arrived so we could get home and have a warm bath. Didn't put me off for long mind you.

Rob

It's what makes the British special.  

Adaptability.

The only time I've ever slept in a tent I was woken in the middle of the night by a really, really weird sensation - like I could hear the ground rumbling underneath me.

Realised about ten minutes later we'd camped right next to a railway line ... :oops:

Am hoping for some rain soon; I spent all day planting out my veg in my new raised beds (yey, I have a veggie patch at last   ) on the basis that it was going to be wet tonight ... so far, not a flippin' drop... :roll:

Can't help on the ecoli/salmonella score, P - though I haven't noticed it mentioned round here except as a question, so I guess maybe it isn't that big a problem?

Certainly does ... and an aching back  

Its the first time I've ever actually managed to make a bit of garden the way I've imagined it ... I've always been really good at virtual gardening before  

Not convinced that anything I'm growing will actually get as far as giving me a crop though - last year my tomatoes ripened too late to be edible because of the rain, my peas were eaten before they had a chance to grown more than three inches, my cucumbers were finished off by slugs and my little patch of sweetcorn was flattened by either pigeons or cats about a week before it was ripe to pick  :evil:  :evil:  :!:

And don't brassicas take up a ridiculous amount of room??  Bought some plants last week in a flurry of excitement before we built the raised beds - I've only planted half of them and already most of my planting space is gone  :roll:


oops, sorry folks ... wrong forum  :oops: