Camping

Camping holidays were always enjoyable - but there was always unseen drama and struggle behind the fun.  At the epicentre of all the trouble was a massive frame tent of such awesome complexity it was never assembled the same way twice and sometimes not assembled at all.  In a wind, it took on a malevolent life of its own.  That tent was possibly one of the greatest struggles of David's life - man against canvas - and he never beat it, despite colour-coding the frame, cutting notches in the joints, reassembling on a new design etc etc. That b***** tent was never tamed.


Even so, the holidays were fab... with endless fun and games for us toddlers. There was a real drama in Brittany when the campsite was flooded in a storm.  We first realised it was all going wrong when the groundsheet was floating, and it was like being on a waterbed.