Wild Camping

[truescrumpy]

Doone Valley campsite in Exmoor, not a commerical site but fresh tap water, stream, surrounded all round by valleys which no moblie will work, beautiful place

 

[ttxela]

How about the roof of a shop outside edinburgh waverly. I had the pleasure of sleeping there sun night when the station shut at half 12. had a 5 and a half hour wait for a train, would recommend the summer months tho.

I used to sleep on Kings cross when I worked nights on the underground, waiting for the first train home. I reckon this counts as pretty wild camping  Not the sort I was hoping for though.

 

[Cumbrian Neil]

How about the roof of a shop outside edinburgh waverly. I had the pleasure of sleeping there sun night when the station shut at half 12. had a 5 and a half hour wait for a train, would recommend the summer months tho.

I used to sleep on Kings cross when I worked nights on the underground, waiting for the first train home. I reckon this counts as pretty wild camping  Not the sort I was hoping for though.

It could be considered "wild" if there were a) rats and b) homeless people trying to steal your shoes.

CN.

 

[ttxela]

How about the roof of a shop outside edinburgh waverly. I had the pleasure of sleeping there sun night when the station shut at half 12. had a 5 and a half hour wait for a train, would recommend the summer months tho.

I used to sleep on Kings cross when I worked nights on the underground, waiting for the first train home. I reckon this counts as pretty wild camping  Not the sort I was hoping for though.

It could be considered "wild" if there were a) rats and b) homeless people trying to steal your shoes.

CN.

I think after a night getting covered in soot oil & mud grubbing around in various tunnelling projects and sometimes in the running tunnels I probably looked far worse than many of the homeless people about. Most seemed very polite and pleasant when we were actually working, and apart fom one lady in a wheelchair who was sitting around a fire with some others under a railway arch where we were doing some levelling checks, she asked me for a light and when I told her politely I didn't have one (true) she went beserk ramming her chair into the tripod and trying to knock it over. Hard to know what to do at that point so I packed up the gear and headed off back to the car being followed all the way with her bashing the chair into me and shouting abuse!

Must have been nearly 15 years ago now but I still remember it as one of the most frightening experiences I've ever had, not because there was ever really much danger of being hurt but just the sheer venom involved and her tanacity carrying it on all the way back to the car.

 

[Cumbrian Neil]

- I love it!!  There is no wrath like a crippled old lady.  Anyone who has experienced the wrath of Mrs. Moffat will attest to that.

CN.

 

[damian]

- I love it!!  There is no wrath like a crippled old lady.  Anyone who has experienced the wrath of Mrs. Moffat will attest to that.

CN.

Assuming you mean Mrs. Morphett of Ingleton caravan fame, then I couldn't agree more.


Perhaps she should warrant a thread in its own right on here - I'm sure there are loads of good stories waiting to be told!  :spank:

 

[Dep]

- I love it!!  There is no wrath like a crippled old lady.  Anyone who has experienced the wrath of Mrs. Moffat will attest to that.

CN.

Assuming you mean Mrs. Morphett of Ingleton caravan fame, then I couldn't agree more.


Perhaps she should warrant a thread in its own right on here - I'm sure there are loads of good stories waiting to be told!  :spank:

Very possibly given that I have no idea who she is or was.
Go on, the forum needs brightening up, nothing new for a while just lots of pedants arguing about spell-checkers!

 

[Peter Burgess]

I thought her name was Morphett. Pedancy gets everywhere.

 

[Cumbrian Neil]

- I love it!!  There is no wrath like a crippled old lady.  Anyone who has experienced the wrath of Mrs. Moffat will attest to that.

CN.

Assuming you mean Mrs. Morphett of Ingleton caravan fame, then I couldn't agree more.


Perhaps she should warrant a thread in its own right on here - I'm sure there are loads of good stories waiting to be told!  :spank:

Dead on... that's exactly who I am talking about.  In the early nineties we used to rappell off the viaduct into the campsite as a "short cut" after being in the pub.  I look back and wonder how I managed to survive those years.  She does warrant a thread of her own... do you want to start it... as I would contribute to it 

CN.

 

[mak]

In the early nineties we used to rappell off the viaduct into the campsite as a "short cut" after being in the pub.  I look back and wonder how I managed to survive those years.  She does warrant a thread of her own... do you want to start it... as I would contribute to it 

CN.

shouldn't that be abseil - we are british after all

 

[Cumbrian Neil]

In the early nineties we used to rappell off the viaduct into the campsite as a "short cut" after being in the pub.  I look back and wonder how I managed to survive those years.  She does warrant a thread of her own... do you want to start it... as I would contribute to it 

CN.

shouldn't that be abseil - we are british after all

I wondering if anyone would pick up on that Americanism after I wrote it.  I guess these dirty colonists are getting to me after ten years of infiltrating their country!!



CN.

 

[ChrisB]

that Americanism

Rappel = French  (literally, to recall)

Abseil = German  (literally, to down rope)

I don't think there's a native word in English or American?

 

[kay]

What about pronounciation? I've always said "absail", but I know someone who pronouces it "absile" following the rule (whether it's true of not I don't know) that in german "ei" is "i" and "ie" is "ee".

 

[Elaine]

Do they come from Birmingham?

 

[bubba]

The peaks not really very good for wild camping

Really Sam, i'm appalled

 

[kay]

Do they come from Birmingham?

I was thinking about the Birmingham accent as I wrote it. No, they're from up north, whatever that county is at the top right of england.

 

[Cumbrian Neil]

Do they come from Birmingham?

I was thinking about the Birmingham accent as I wrote it. No, they're from up north, whatever that county is at the top right of england.

Northumberland??

 

[whitelackington]

Steep Holm :

 

[kay]

Do they come from Birmingham?

I was thinking about the Birmingham accent as I wrote it. No, they're from up north, whatever that county is at the top right of england.

Northumberland??

That's the one. Not Northumbria. That's not a proper county.

 

[whitelackington]

Do they come from Birmingham?

I was thinking about the Birmingham accent as I wrote it. No, they're from up north, whatever that county is at the top right of england.

Northumberland??

That's the one. Not Northumbria. That's not a proper county.

Counties have all but been abolished.
I live in Royal Berkshire, some years ago the best bit was stripped away and handed to Oxfordshire (Ted Heath's Day)
we got landed with Slough, hardly fair?
Berkshire has been split into Unitary areas, in effect, each town its own county.
Apparently berkshire now only exists for ceremonial purposes, whatever that is.

Somerset
has been blown apart,
Bath & North East Somerset, what sort of county is that?
Weston-Super-Mare has turned into North Somerset

Who thinks this sort of hair brained scheme up