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Yup, maybe I'm being a bit too generous in this first giveaway, lol.....
There's probably the best part of £500 of gear being given away here.
Will there be anything left for subsequent giveaways?......yeah, no worries as I have been planning this for a few years.
All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is be in the UK, be subscribed to this channel and comment on the video with a personal story about camping - it could be something awesome, something scary or something disastrous.....camping can go many ways....
In mid-December I will check which comment has the most thumbs up and that person will be the winner - as viewers of this channel you're effectively judging yourselves which is the most democratic way to choose a winner.
In a time where 'democracy' has essentially become a meaningless word in the developed nations (US, EU and UK especially....) I thought I'd bring back true democracy and let the people choose. ...... and I promise there won't be any mysterious arrival of thousands of votes (all for one person) in the middle of the night.......people with eyes to see know what I'm talking about, lol
These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times.
My promise to you:
I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel.
We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Tent review video: ua-cam.com/video/DFOJyDnxGok/v-deo.html
Yup, maybe I'm being a bit too generous in this first giveaway, lol.....
There's probably the best part of £500 of gear being given away here.
Will there be anything left for subsequent giveaways?......yeah, no worries as I have been planning this for a few years.
All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is be in the UK, be subscribed to this channel and comment on the video with a personal story about camping - it could be something awesome, something scary or something disastrous.....camping can go many ways....
In mid-December I will check which comment has the most thumbs up and that person will be the winner - as viewers of this channel you're effectively judging yourselves which is the most democratic way to choose a winner.
In a time where 'democracy' has essentially become a meaningless word in the developed nations (US, EU and UK especially....) I thought I'd bring back true democracy and let the people choose. ...... and I promise there won't be any mysterious arrival of thousands of votes (all for one person) in the middle of the night.......people with eyes to see know what I'm talking about, lol
These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times.
My promise to you:
I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel.
We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
(my other account) How the Hell has my comment got most votes??? don't worry though, I won't count this one as the most popular, lol
Good luck winner
Best camping trip I ever had was to Arcachon in the 3rd year at school. We caught the coach driver shagging the music teacher, met one of the UK’s premier boybands recording a pop video at the top of the sand dune and saw the maths teachers knockers. Magic.
I went camping last summer, we were using airbeds! We came back after a long walk only to find our airbeds had completely deflated. We were using a generator to inflate them originally, said generator packed in and we ended up with completely flat beds. We thought it would be a good idea to gather fallen leaves to help pad the base of the airbed out to make it comfier. Once finally getting to sleep, I woke up at 3am after choking on something in my mouth, the taste of two earthworms is something I’ll never get out of my head 😂
We went camping when the 2 kids were younger. First day was glorious weather, couldn't have wished for better. Next day a completely different story! Never seen rain like it, absolutely tanked it down... Same again the next day.. So bad the neighbours in a safari tent took pity on us and we sat in there nearly all that night! Next morning we decided enough was enough, packed up and went to a hotel... underneath the tent when we packed it away can only be described as if we had been camping at Glastonbury it was so thick with mud!
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Have a good Christmas.
Regards,
Richard
@Thousand Yard Stare thank you so much, we have emailed 😀
Last time I dared to go camping was with the cubs. It was very uneventful. No inflatable tents back in those times. Thanks, Richard. Good luck to everyone, I'm enjoying the camping stories.
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I went camping at whitewall hall as a kid with the school. It’s was the best time ever, freedom from the parents. We had cows in our tents one morning. We played” all pile on “ on the rope swing 22 kids on one rope ! We sang songs every night around the campfire and dared each other to cross the bulls field. I also got badly burnt, whole saucepan full of fat down my legs while light wait cooking but I still went the next year why ? Cause it was fun best days as a kid with my school mates . Loved them days when no worries or problems were about just total fun. Would like to give my kids an experience like this !
***As all good stories start*** ….it was in the early 80’s. School trip, whit week away in the Lakes (no frills sort of stuff). Over night jobbie on Mount Coniston. It was a very hot summer, and supplies were running low so much so the teachers took charge of the water for us boys. However, one particular boy who was a right nasty pasty had a 2-litre bottle of 7up. Would be share it…NOPE! A teacher took a group of the older boys away to a farm on the O/S map to bring back water. I and my mate being young lads stayed behind and snuck in the offending boy’s tent for a quick little slurp of that 7up. Things got out of hand and about a third was polished off. We where in trouble deep when he got back make no mistake, in for a black eye or worse. My mate came up with the brilliant idea of having a little wee in the bottle to fill it up, after all the boy WAS a nasty pasty. The older boys and the teacher came back empty handed and it was decided to call off the overnighter and make for the Coniston village. It was at this point the boy with the 7up broke it out and started passing it around everyone in the group…..including the teachers. By the time we got down to the village not a drop of that 7up was left, and all I and my mate could do was look on in horror, with the old knowing look and a giggle.
When I was 15, my mate and I went camping and he borrowed his neighbours tent. The campsite was only 10 miles away and we went on the bus. We were both 8 stone weaklings and the tent was a 6 man frame tent that weighed more than we did. The bus stopped 1 mile from the campsite and went no further. It took us 2 hours to drag the tent to the campsite and another 2 hours to erect it. We fell asleep after eating the only tin of beans we had brought( we forgot the bread). It rained for the next 3 days and we were the only people left on the site. Best holiday of my life!
It began on a dusty forest track, a storm, a tent, and a man to long without sleep to carry on", in the early light he rose",unzipped " to find the forest had gone",
Long before I was born my mam and dad used to go camping with my two oldest sisters... mam dad two kids a tent all crammed into and on a motorbike and sidecar... They had this old style green canvas tent the type you used to get in the scouts.. my mam kept going on about how she loved camping until one time a cow stuck its head though the door and tried to get into the tent. My mam and sisters were going nuts all while a my dad is trying to usher it away with little success.. It was this story that sparked my desire to go camping and have done and loved it ever since... Even now I find myself with an odd smile on my face as I tell my kids the same story of the cow and the tent.. 🐄🎪🤣🤣
Well this year we went on our first family camping trip since before COVID. We normally do 2-3 trips a year. However because of the pandemic we realised that the sites we often like to vist were extra busy with people who would normally go abroad. This was not what we wanted as we like to get away to nice quiet sites to chill we dont want crazy busy sites. This year due to my wife's workplace having a 3 week shutdown before the summer holidays we decided to take a 3 day trip to The Mains farm campsite in the Eden valley Cumbria. We booked our pitch a couple of months in advance not knowing how the weather would turn out and hoped that it would be dry and settled as our previous trip before covid saw us come home early due to a wind damaged tent. It turned out that during our 3 nights we had the hottest days on record with the whole country basking in the high 30s. I was so pleased to be camping those days as the aircon at my workplace had been out of order for some time and conditions would of been terrible to work in. While my workmates were suffering in the heat i spent my time swimming in the river Eden. I think the timing of the trip was perfect.....
started camping in the summer as the two kids wanted to try it. ones 10 and others 4 started off great very organised on my part if i do say so my self or so i thought . until i ripped the tent air bed has a hole in it which went down during the night and to top it off the youngest wet the bed to which i woke up soaking wet. with all that been said it hasn't put us off we spent a few times this summer camping with the kids just have to pack a few extra items incase the above happen again 😂
i loved camping but camped on my own a long time ago was pretty scary too as strange noises were around my tent, well opened the tent and there they were....cows!!! all around me i was scared they would trample my tent more than me! am still here to tell
So here is my camping story. In 2016 a meteorite exploded a couple of miles away from my house in Scotland. The following evening my daughter and I spotted 4 orange Orbs searching the night sky in a grid like fashion. The Orbs stayed for over an hour and we could not identify them as having any frame , made a deep light humming noise and completely ignored us watching them. Fast forward a couple of weeks later. My daughter is a huge wild camping fanatic. We have quite a large wooded area close to our home and so we were trying out her new camping gear for an overnight stay. There is a beautiful spot that has panoramic views stretching for many miles. As we settled in for the night we were star gazing as we often do pointing out the different planets and constellations. I pointed out Saturn to her which was very bright and felt really chuffed that we had such a clear night. Within 10 minutes of us gazing I thought I saw Saturn move? I made comment to my daughter expecting her to laugh it off but she didn't. She too saw it move and then very quickly it moved from it's northerly position very quickly and covering quite a few miles to an easterly position and dipped below a hill top for a few seconds. The next thing we knew this very large reddish Orb thing was making it's way toward us and we both freaked out! Suddenly it flew off again and positioned itself back to it's original space. Now having had the experience we had a couple of weeks before hand our imaginations ran wild and we have never packed up so quickly! Problem being we had a 1.5 mile hike to get out of the wood. What a nightmare camp that was.
Went camping with the scouts, went for a night walk and got chased by horses. We good in a bush/ thicket for hours until we eventually got rescued by police and a very relived scout master.
years back on a joint hen/stag do in which we all went and camped out in middle of nowhere. next day our main driver realised he had lost his car keys. a frantic 2 hour search and nothing eventually someone remembered that during the drunken evening said driver had found a rope swing about half mile down road which we had all forgotten about and amazingly we found the keys at the swing. Was full on hungover panic stations.
Took a trailer tent to the south coast, not known to me an Atlantic depression heading landwards. Well we found out about it when the entire trailer tent was ripped out of the sodden ground and then dropped us down! We survived with one bent pole! Unlike most of the caravan awnings that were destroyed or badly damaged! 😮
The first experience I had of camping was one I will never forget 4 days fishing on the meres in Shropshire. Waking up in the night with more ice inside of the tent/bivvy than there was outside all just to reel in a slimey dustbin lid. Rising exhausted in the morning to chef up a full English on the camp stove with the smallest frying pan in the world and only a teaspoon as your utensil of choice. Sat with a thousand yard stare across the lake as you witness the true spectacle of a foot long turd from a neighbouring peg float on buy your rod tip. Magical
first time camping in lakes buttermere, no ground sheet had to scrounge fertilizer bags off a farmer, put tent up in the dark after a few pints, rolled over in night hit tent side we had pitched on a slope, woke up next morning heard a queer sound opened tent flap nearly got licked by a cows tongue whilst it was scoffing grass, that was in the 70,s never been camping since
lol, a familiar tale that my wife would identify with and as far as she is concerned camping would be secondary to ritual suicide.
Long time ago father had a business trip just one night away but couldn’t afford hotels so took me and camped , tea that night was only a tin of beans and sausages and as we didn’t have a say’s pan just used the tin , unfortunately he didn’t punch a vent hole in the tin and it exploded covering everything and everyone in beans including the shirts and trousers he was wearing to the meeting , he had to explain in the meeting why his clothing was bean stained and I thing it helped him break the ice ,
One time myself & wife purchased a tent which was a 6 berth tent with aluminium poles. We set off to the lakes and selected a site. On arrival at the site we saw a number of tents already pitched. We selected our pitch and began to set up. We noticed all the tents were 1 man or 2 man pop up tents, We looked a bit out of place !. 3 hours later in the pitch black and pouring rain we finally finished putting up the tent and put on a brew. What a crazy first time to set up. Our tent was more for a week holiday in Devon rather than a rough field just off one of the fells. It didn’t put us off, we continued to camp several times over the summer. So to win the giveaway a new small pop up tent would be a bonus and something to forward too for the summer next year.
@@thousandyardstare1 fantastic news, hopefully I will be lucky. I really could do with some. 👍
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30 years ago I went camping in the silly isle on saint Marys, in the dead of night I heard snorting and rustling and fearing for my life grabbed a torch and shone it into the darkness, only to be met with the biggest hedgehog I’ve ever seen. Try shoeing away a hedgehog the size of a Westie terrier out of a tent whilst it’s munching it’s way through a week’s supply of food!!
I went wild camping in Dartmoor with 4 other friends in early March, it took 6 hours to drive down there so by the time we got to our camping spot it was quite late in the evening and getting dark, at which point one of the people who was meant to be brining a tent informed us that he forgot the poles and pegs, so we ended up with 5 people crammed into two tiny 2-man tents. The two big boys in one and the three skinny guys in the other. The tent was so small they couldn't even close the inner doors on the one with three people so had to just hang out under the fly in -3 Centigrade weather, didn't help that it was snowing and the strongest wind I've ever felt. I managed to sleep a little bit somehow, but in the tent with three people they had to just huddle around eating hot dogs out of a jar all night.
My only respite was that in the morning my boots were full of snow instead of rain, so at least I could tip them out and have dry feet. We immediately retreated to a Travel Lodge the next morning, after being harassed by the local homeless schizophrenic.
Jesus sounds like hell
"in the tent with three people they had to just huddle around eating hot dogs out of a jar all night"
hahaha brilliant, got to stay warm somehow 😂
My favourite camping trip was with my grandad who was my hero I was about 9 and he would always tell stories of when he was a kid
This particular trip I remember quite well as it was the last summer I got to spend with him
We went to a woodland he knew from when he was a kid and setup the tent now my grandad was always making trips into adventures and this one was no exception he said we needed to collect some sticks to make a fire and while we were collecting them he said he saw a goblin run off with his pipe and that we should try and catch him so we started walking round in these woods looking for my grandads pipe stealing goblin
After a while my grandad sat down and started laughing and said that he couldn't remember where we pitched the tent so we need to find a farm so we can get home which we did
The next morning I got up for my breakfast I asked my nan where grandad was and she told me he had gone to the shop for his newspaper and pipe tobacco but when he got back he was carrying the tent when he saw me he just laughed and said that the goblins had left it at the shops
It wasn't until a few years after that I found out from my nan that he hadn't forgotten where the tent was it was just that he was getting to old to sleep in a tent
Hope you like my memory look forward to reading yours
After a good day walking at Langdale we headed off to The Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel for food absolutely chucking down with rain I got back to my tent at midnight very drunk after a rumble about in my wash bag, I brushed my teeth with my Betnovate ointment. There's a moral in this story but I'm too old to grow up lol.
my friend and i decided to camping in the north of scotland just outside Aberfeldy, beside loch Tay. So we could do some photography as we were doing a photography coarse at collage and landscapes were needed for our portfolios, we had pitched our tents,eventually got a fire going(Ray Mears why had thoth forsake me) and cooked up our pot noodles, then after a couple of cans of lager hit the hay......i woke a few hours later needing to go for a pee, so i climbed out my sleeping bag and thought i dont need to get dress we are in the middle of no where and i wasnt going to be long, so i took my cheap nasty torch(none of your maglight/olight) this bad boy had a glass bulb and made my way to an old wall nearby and start the job at hand(literally and figurativly), when i hear some movement in front of me, so lifted my torch to see what it was and face to face with what must have been an 8ft stag and like every mature 18 year old i let out a scream that could only be discribed as a 3 year old girl but only with bigger lungs to which the stag gave out this almighty roar(i could smell its breath) which caused me to drop the torch smashing the bulb, i turn to runaway and ran face first into a tree causing me to scream again....fortunately i heard the stag roar in the distance in response. by a stroke of luck the commotion had woken my friend (and the family on the other side of the loch) and managed to make my way back.....i don't know who was the scared the most probably me as he was armed to the teeth
I went camping and one night I woke up and found a frog in my sleeping bag with me. Next day we had a look around the area even though it was raining. When me and my partner got back to the tent a stream had appeared and went straight through the middle of the tent, which made it collapse. Everything was drenched inside. We packed up and went home after that.
First time when camping when young scared to death by horses outside an ended up going home at 7am and was at back door great times lol
Never go camping in Scotland, or the islands when midges are crazy.
We camped by the coast in roof top tents in the landrovers on the Isle of Lewis.
Stunning scenery but by 4/5 in the morning in August 2019, the midges made it through the fly netting no bother.
Waking up to a swarm of them in your face, we packed up and escaped the swarms as fast as possible!
Scotland is definitely best in early spring or early winter 👌
Cheers
Aaron
We went overboard with stuff we took camping so much so we had to do 3 trips in the car OMG 😱 when I set everything up it was absolutely shocking as I took comfort to a new level and ended up selling most of the stuff lol , and we went back to basics as it was more enjoyable hahahaha I still can't believe I took a smart TV camping lol I would have been foaming if I broke it , you live and learn lol 😂
This story is true, but I’m not proud of myself .me and my wife we’re driving to a cottage in the Lake District and we heard that somebody had drowned in the river one-year nearby. We stopped at the local pub for directions and I jokingly said I hope the cottage isn’t haunted and made a ghost noise .. ooooohh .The guy in the pub said that was my mother-in-law who drowned . We had been camping up at the Langdales and went to the cottage as a treat , wish id stayed in the tent
Hey Richard cracking giveaway I go camping all the time as I'm a keep carp angler and once when I went camping I pitched my tent set up my rods and alarms and went to sleep when my alarm went off I went to jump out of the camping bed and there was 6 inches of water everywhere the river had rose by 2 foot over night and me and the tent was in water 🤣🤣🤣
A few years ago my mates and I went camping in Ross on wye, we were taking canoes down the river. We all turned up with cheap but ok tents and a stack of waterproofs knowing we’d get wet. My one mate who is built like a brick you know what turned up and put up his child’s pop up tent! He got in with most of his lower half sticking out the bottom. No worries he said I’ve got this. He pulled out one of those free pack away ponchos you get a festivals put it on and got back in the tent. In the morning his legs were drenched and covered with mud and his top half not much better. 😂 If I win I’ll give him the tent!
Went camping in Wales, got set up cooked some food then decided to go to the pub about 4 miles from campsite. While we were in the pub the weather took a turn and it rained heavy for hours on end, so we decided to stay in the pub until it slowed down. When it decided to slow down we walked back to the campsite and as we approached the site I could see my and my friends tents in a different field but couldn't quite see over trees, when we get near the field we were originally camped on it was waist deep. Everything we had was either under water or floating around 🤣. Somebody didn't open the flood gates for the nearby river so all the farmers fields were also under water. We ended up staying at a local hotel, was probably better to sleep in the wet tent as the hotel was like faulty towers. Never seen anything like it in my life, my room might as well not had a roof as water was coming through the ceiling all night, it was absolutely filthy, wires hanging out of every wall and ceiling all round the hotel, it was crazy. We paid for breakfast, was waiting in the dining room for 30 minutes for our breakfast to be told the owner also the "chef" was too hungover to cook. I think we dodged a bullet missing out on that breakfast, but we did a refund 🤣. Went back and visited that area 6 weeks ago and the hotel is having a makeover with new owners, the campsite is still there which also looks like it's been updated. Great memories.
Hm Short story
So shortly after arriving in Uk -2002-maybe no so shortly but after 2 yers we went for trip 4 cars 16 guys all Polish nationals-
“Born and raised between woods”🤣🤣🤣 - all off us had some good experience in camping- we all bought Argos tent and packed all our kitchen gear including pans- and plenty polish sausages- shortly after arriving in Wells - Snowdon we located in someone’s field
Next to small stream
2 off us went to local village with little knowledge off English language
To buy some dry wood logs to start fire (it was raining so much we couldn’t start any fire with soaking wet wood we founded close by )
There was no wood available at that time apart briquettes which we thought was something like coal at list looks like from picture on bag - we managed to grab 2 bags before shop been closed and went back to wild camp- us you can expect it is not easy to start fire with out fire starters in rain so after 1h
we give up blowing mostly because we run out off steam and matches 😂😂😂
Any way from that time I fell in Lowe with Wells
We book holiday there every year mostly in cottage with wood burner 😁
I love camping it's great, love waking up 6am & having a cuppa in the morning dew. Been to Bobby shafto, Silloth plus many other places round the North East. Silloth was funny, great weather until the last night & it tipped down, so had to take the tent down the next morning in puddles up to my knees.
Got invited on a last-minute, unexpected camping trip at a time when I didn't have a tent. I quickly went out and looked for a cheap tent from the local Millets (this was back in the 1990s), and managed to pick up an ex-display two man "Eurohike" tent for a pretty sweet deal.
Got to the site and opened up my new tent. Turns out that the shop staff hadn't put the poles into the bag, so I actually had a poorly-shaped tarp and mozzie net. I (with help) managed to cobble something together that was mostly weatherproof. Would have been easier if there'd been trees or similar to tie on to. But there weren't.
That was the last time I tried going for "a pretty sweet deal".
A friend and I decided to got walking up in Glencoe in November. We both had our sleeping bags . I had a Anjulak one that supposedly some of the military guys use in Norway or the likes. It was way to warm. I slept with the zip open down t my waist . Only a t-shirt and shorts on for clothing.
My mate had two sleeping bags with him. When we woke there was snow on the bivvy bags were were in. Only snow before that was on the mountains .
He said he was freezing and a one point he was tempted to sleep in the car . I said did you not use the other sleeping bag and he said yeah. Still too cold . I told him I had to keep with the zip open as I was too warm 😆
We did the walks we planned to do but decided not to camp in the hidden valley as we planned to do . We ended up staying at the same site and using the tent instead. We swapped sleeping bags also.
I guess with me being a bit more plump helped with the insulation 😆
We always wanted to try a snow cave but that experience in the bivvy bags decided that one was not going to happen.
Hope your doing well Richard , do you till Shoot?
Last time I took the kids camping in the tent we went to a home ed festival
Got there rather late in the day.
Set up the 5m bell tent in the dark the kind with the separate ground sheet.
Put the airbed in and went to sleep woke up
To eve thing at one side of the tent
Rolled off the bed got drenched
It had rained all night and we had a literal river running though the tent
My first time camping was going so well until i spotted a SPIDER in the tent! I got out snd refused to get back in ever again. I didnt sleep that night and so we all had to go home early the next day lol. I was only about 7 think
My first ever camping trip was with the air cadets, was a complete disaster, soaked wet through, no fire, hex blocks crumbled in me kit bag all over everything and meths leaked into the pasta. To make it all worse I then shredded my hand trying to rip open the band on a can of spam (snapped the key on the first turn!!)
Promised myself to never be as poorly prepared as that ever again!!
Can't think of a disaster that I've had, I've been lucky, but I do recall a disaster. During a weeks trip I'd been out for my walk really early and got back to the site by about 2 pm, just before heavy rain was due. So as I sat in my porch, coffee in hand, a car turns up and parks opposite my tent. After about 10 minutes the driver gets out and unloads a large tent. Even though I could see a wife and children still in the car I shout over and offer assistance, which was politely refused. The rain is now torrential. I made another coffee. He struggled on with his large tent whilst getting soaked and with no help from inside the car. After about 20 minutes he suddenly bundled up the tent and stuffed it into the boot of his car, jumped in and immediately drove off. Whether they went off to find a hotel or just went back home I'll never know as I never seen them back at the campsite. And yes, I'm sorry to say that, I did feel a little bit smug - but I did offer.........😁
My first time camping as a kid, we went to somewhere in Bath. We set up the tent, which was a very old fashioned one, think it was only a 4 man but it had metal poles inside to hold the roof up. On returning to the tent, we found we were somehow surrounded by cows and they had totally trashed the tent. The poles holding the roof were all bent and broken.
Some duck tape and a few branches later and we had the best family weekend away ☺️
I went camping with a new fishing tent and didn’t try to put it up till it was getting dark. Disaster. Could get it up no matter how I tried. Had to sleep in the car. On daylight and with help from another fisherman who told me it was inside out🤬🙈
the time I ruined my tent 1st night, on a 5 day camping trip🤕.........In the early 2000's i was an avid festival Gower, in particular " download festival". It was at one of these festival visits I decided to try magic mushrooms ( legal at the time and sold in the festival market). I arrived at the festival to be greeted by a friend who uttered the now engrained words " dude they've got mushrooms for sale here, wanna try them?". We proceeded to the market to purchase our mushrooms, what followed next is hard to describe......Other than to say I tripped my balls off!!! 🤯🤯after the most euphoric day/evening/night I eventually went back to my tent to crash out. This is where things took a turn.....Found myself lying in my sleeping bag within my tent, hallucinating that I was in the belly of some horrendous beast!!! obviously the only solution was to escape....So that is what I did, bursting straight through the side of my tent.....Leaving a man sized hole!!!
after being reassured by friends I was in fact OK, and the mushrooms wore off...I came to the realisation my tent now had a second undesirable opening.....after making best fix I could with duct tape, I spent the next 4 days with a draughty and wet tent.🤬🤬
Been camping since 1961 and love the outside experience,the first time was when I was a young lad in the scouts at Whitby, which was an experience being carried across a river strapped to a stretcher. I could not swim and was terrified but have loved my camping and fishing outings over the last 50 plus years.
Our old dog Molly pulled me in aria force river . The wife was filming and Harry hill has shown it on you been framed hundreds of times . I was wearing a daft camping hat and harry says “ isnt Harrison ford a bit old for this “
In the late 70s as a 12 yr old went camping with mates family to Scotland, me & him got the crappist tent known to man, no ground sheet, Sleeping bags that did not help me sleep such was the cold & it leaked in the worst weather Scotland had had for 30 yrs,
His dad was a canny guy but did he pay for our stay as he should NNNOOOO, at a certain point we had a 5 min call to be packed up & in the car & away before we got caught, This happened at every site we stopped at, Did it stop me camping in later life, hell no
About 150 miles to an airshow went to set up the tent and somebody forgot the tent poles that was in a separate bag 😪🤣👍🍻
Went camping with ex-wife.
2 days in ... a big thunderstorm happens. That thunder stom picks up the gazebo and throws it through the tent, missing me by inches 😳
The moral of the story don't allow the ex-wife to tie down equipment.
P.s. Anyone would think she had it in for me 😅
Hi 🙋♂️
After the first lockdown was lifted I have packed up my motorcycle and went away for 2 nights to Cornwall, bought barley used 2 man tent to save money from a lovely lady who assured me everything is in there. I could've not picked a better place for camping next to the coast whit lovely Hike trails around the ridges, I've set up the tent like a novice but whit no issues parked the bike next to it and went off to see the trails and the suns set at the ridges. Came back whit my batteries charged and my anxieties swept away by the wind to find that the centre stand on the VFR800FI have dug into the ground and the bike fell over on the tent exhaust side 😂😵 Lessened learned always support the stand and bring a head torch whit you just in case 😎👍
Merry Christmas everyone 🎅🤶
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100% - fake channels are all over UA-cam now along with a nation of bot comments. I have blocked that channel and reported each comment for spam.
I've been sharing your channel with everyone I know. I think your channel will grow fast but I fear you may get in the hot water occasionally as well since you tube is so communistic in there behavior.....Lol
I reckon you're right there but it is incredibly difficult to self-censor when there is so much obvious ridiculousness going on in the world. Walking the delicate line between exposure and obscurity on UA-cam is something every channel has to do now unfortunately. It's just a period of history we have to get through and anyone who doesn't crumble and end up being part of the problem will emerge with their soul intact.
I love camping in the UK but it pales in comparison to camping in Africa. Waking up to the sound of a large cat or hippo prowling around your camp makes you appreciate life pretty quick
Last summer I took my boys camping for the first time they were 4 at the time they absolutely loved it but didn’t realise how cold and wet it was thankfully😂 using a old Shakespeare fishing tent hoping we can get out again in the summer but definitely need a new tent 🏕 good luck everyone