Jon’s Diary

It turns out that there was a summer this year. Unfortunately it was only one weekend long, so I’m glad we made the most of it.

The weekend before last Vicky and I went camping on the south coast with a couple of friends. On the Saturday we visited Corfe Castle, Lulworth Cove, and Durdle Door. The weather was amazing, and I even got a touch of sunburn!

Unfortunately I’d lent my little camera to my friend Steve, who’d gone walking in the Lake District, and I didn’t take my SLR with me. However, we did get a few pictures on Vicky’s camera.
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As the nights draw in, the weather turns colder, and things generally become more miserable, I thought it would be nice to remind myself of something from the summer.

On September 24th, Ann and I were down in Sussex for my cousin’s 18th birthday party. We’d driven down a day early and camped overnight, so that we could make the most of the weekend, since the party wasn’t starting until the evening.
We were woken in the morning by the sound of a slightly demented cockerel, and a rather noisy brood of hens. Opening the tent we were confronted by these three characters:

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Last weekend Ann and I met up with some friends from the Bike Chat Forums and went to the Rock ‘n’ Blues Custom Bike Show in Matlock, Derbyshire.
These are the guys we were camping with:

From left to right, and top to bottom (going on head height); Nicky (Queen of String), Helen (Nighteyes), Ann (Annabella) me! (Suzuki), Lloyd (non-BCF), Steph (Steph T.N.S.), Tam (Mrs Hippy), Mike (Psycho Hippy), James (TNO), Steven (Ste), Tom (Wildgoose), Ian (fastyan).
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I’ll start by explaining the rather random title of this post.
Up until now, Ann and I have been using a gas stove whilst camping on which we could only boil a kettle since we had no pans. So, she went to get some pans, and made a joke with a guy in the camping shop holding up a £50 Trangia and asked “How much discount could you give me on this?”. The chap was so helpful, that Ann walked out with a £50 Trangia, and matching kettle, for only £15. Bargain!

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Due to a rather shocking lack of funds at the moment, the idea for this summer’s holiday is to spend a week camping in France on the bikes.
As a prelude to this, we went camping last weekend in Wales as a sort of test run with the new tent.

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