PLEASE give me good weather for the next 4 days!

[Bob]

Off on my annual camping trip tomorrow - and the UK weather is being erratic as it can possibly be.

Perfect camping venue - it is at a music (folk) festival... so well behaved, bikers get to camp on the local cricket club's outfield (so perfectly smooth, no stones or cowpats etc). But if it throws down the rain hard, it ain't a lot of fun!

So hoping beyond hope at the moment we'll slip back into sunny weather. If it is stormy, going to have to let the train take the strain (I've got weatherproof kit that'll cope with anything, but Laura (my wife) doesn't have that level of protection - and I'm not having her ride for 100 miles (160km?) in a thunderstorm and getting ill!)

So if anyone fancies crossing their fingers for me, it's be appreciated!

Of course, this also means the regular news service will be down for a few days... unless anyone else comes up with something!

[bgd]

Goodluck to you. Hope you've a good tent. Kent got a months worth of rain the other night. I'm hoping it's heading north or west - anywhere but here

[Bob]

Goodluck to you. Hope you've a good tent. Kent got a months worth of rain the other night. I'm hoping it's heading north or west - anywhere but here

Very north would suit me - we're off to a little village called Cropredy - just north of Banbury in Oxfordshire. So it'd be good if the rain could go somewhere that is used to volume! The North Sea strikes me as about OK...

I think a village in Cambridgeshire got TWICE their MONTHLY rain last night! Glad I'm not heading that way...

[wari]

LEttuce know how you geton Bob ...

[Quasievil]

Sorry MAte all my prayers used up to get rid of the Crap we have here !!!

But hope its good for ya

[wari]

Ok Bob ...

Fill usin here mate ...

HOw was the weather ... :spudwhat:

[Bob]

Ok Bob ...

Fill usin here mate ...

HOw was the weather ... :spudwhat:

Well... we checked as many weather sites as we could find - and they all pointed to it being pretty awful at times. So we let the train take the strain (120 miles in torrential rain isn't a lot of fun!) - we spotted a few showers on the way - probably about where we would have been at that point!

When we got to the village (Mother-in-Law met us at the station and drove us over), it was chaos! Of the 9 fields normally used for camping (including the cricket club outfield (obviously the wicket is fenced off) - where bikes are allowed to park for free), the cricket pitch and 3 or 4 fields near it were off-limits due to flooding.

Anyway, after we'd settled in, set up tents etc, we went off to the field to watch some bands. And for about 20 minutes there was a really heavy shower. Happened too fast to get away from it, so just had to suffer.

Of course, a mate came up later and was WAY too smug when he announced "I didn't see any rain at all".

So I was quietly very pleased when, the next day, we were just heading over to the field (the others had already gone) and it started hammering down - just as we were by a canopy. So we sheltered there until it stopped - unlike 'Smug Mate' who got soaked.

(Not the first time he has been 'all smug' as he avoided rain, so nice to see him get his just desserts).

Aside from that? It was dry, cloudy most of the time with the occasional brilliant burst of sunshine.

The festival might not happen next year - which was why we said we were going no matter what - but if it does, I've said we're not buying advanced tickets any more, we'll see what it is like on the day and if it is awful, we'll just do something else (only save £5 a ticket by buying early, so hardly out of pocket by much!)

[toads]

Well... we checked as many weather sites as we could find - and they all pointed to it being pretty awful at times. So we let the train take the strain (120 miles in torrential rain isn't a lot of fun!) - we spotted a few showers on the way - probably about where we would have been at that point!

When we got to the village (Mother-in-Law met us at the station and drove us over), it was chaos! Of the 9 fields normally used for camping (including the cricket club outfield (obviously the wicket is fenced off) - where bikes are allowed to park for free), the cricket pitch and 3 or 4 fields near it were off-limits due to flooding.

Anyway, after we'd settled in, set up tents etc, we went off to the field to watch some bands. And for about 20 minutes there was a really heavy shower. Happened too fast to get away from it, so just had to suffer.

Of course, a mate came up later and was WAY too smug when he announced "I didn't see any rain at all".

So I was quietly very pleased when, the next day, we were just heading over to the field (the others had already gone) and it started hammering down - just as we were by a canopy. So we sheltered there until it stopped - unlike 'Smug Mate' who got soaked.

(Not the first time he has been 'all smug' as he avoided rain, so nice to see him get his just desserts).

Aside from that? It was dry, cloudy most of the time with the occasional brilliant burst of sunshine.

The festival might not happen next year - which was why we said we were going no matter what - but if it does, I've said we're not buying advanced tickets any more, we'll see what it is like on the day and if it is awful, we'll just do something else (only save £5 a ticket by buying early, so hardly out of pocket by much!)

I tend to have a wait and see what the weather is doing on the day approach to our annual camping trip, nothing worse than camping in the rain, we have taken to hiring cabins for our last 2 camping trips due to weather, so I relate!