Life Under Canvas

Spent the weekend in Huntly in the tent again.

Weather was mixed but it didn't manage to spoil the weekend.

First night's camping was enlivened somewhat when someone three tents down awoke in the early hours to discover an interloper in his tent. Apparently some guy had returned from his mate's caravan somewhat over refreshed and had kipped down in the wrong tent... Fun and games.

Discovered that the Speyside Stages rally was being held on the Saturday and so took the wee fella to see the cars at the maintenance stop and then took in the stage at Rosarie forest. I have to say that despite the presence of lots of extremely fast Subaru's and Mitsubishi's my favourite cars were the vintage Escorts like the one in the clip below. Update : video replaced with one of my own.

Camping Carry On

The TK family are off to road test our new tent over the next couple of days. We are hoping and praying that the recent positive change in the weather carries on for a bit longer.

We have decided not to stray too far from home on this maiden voyage in case of foul weather, disasters, injuries, plagues of frogs, murderous nightprowlers etc etc. Ever the eternal optimists, we always like to look on the bright side...

Getting to our destination may prove to be the toughest challenge. To some a camping trip would involve a small tent, sleeping bags, a couple of tins of baked beans, two dozen cans of lager, and some loo roll - not the family TK! We have a tent that could function as a temporary refugee holding centre, a mountain of bits and bobs for the internals, and enough changes of wardrobe to keep Posh Spice happy for a month. Fitting all of this gubbins into the TK mobile was like a horrendous automobile based version of Tetris but I finally managed it, only to have to go back and rearrange everything when I remembered we had to fit 2.5 people in the vehicle as well!

I am sure we will have lots of fun, once I have managed to erect the marquee, and it will be a nice break.

May try and email in some blog entries if the mood takes me, if it doesn't (ab)normal service will be resumed in a couple of days.


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