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Claytoner, if a person has a young child with them then they should put it on their knee, the child SHOULD be made to move, i was brought up to do that as was my son.....it's called teaching children good manners

Sitting on knee is acceptable I agree. To be honest I don't think anyone should stand on a bus it's quite dangerous really. You have to wear a seat belt in a car but can stand holding a bar on a bus

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Sorry Susie, I'm not mean honestly! As for the camping I can understand families with children doing it, likewise caravanners. But people of my age who try to persuade me how wonderful and glamorous it is in the hope I might take it up myself - it's just not going to happen! I would say to them just do your camping and don't try to convert! And please Susie carry on enjoying your camping for as long as you want, even though I can't ever understand why you'd want to when you've a perfectly good home to live in!
Ramblers - no, I haven't really got anything against them either, apart from the fact that they and their equipment and wet clothing seems to take over and speaking from my own experience on several occasions they can be quite rude and bad mannered - I'm not even sure they realise it!

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OK Anne, no need to apologise - I know you were just just letting off steam.
When I met my partner in the long hot summer of 76 we were on an archaeological dig and we lived in a tent for ten weeks. Then we used to go camping most summers but as we got older it was interspersed with nights in hotels - saving up for a few nights meant we could stay in some interesting places such as converted monasteries and grand houses in Spain. Now we have a motorhome which is just like a little house on wheels but doesn't need to be towed like a caravan. So it's not all roughing it!

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The holidays in Spain sound wonderful and something I really want to do myself, I guess we'll just have to differ with regard to the camping and motor home stuff - I really need plumbing, en suites and electricity, just call me a snob!
(My children all reckon that the song 'You're So Vain' was written for me, I presume they're doing it light heartedly when they all burst into song!)

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Also Susie, you sound like you've had a very interesting life to date!

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My experiences of camping were all in Wet Wales, so it really put me off....but my parents loved it and had some wonderful rough and ready cheap holidays on Camp sites in Spain(this was in the late sixties - I was married so I didn't go with them). They could not afford any other type of holiday until much later. We went overland to Spain with them in 1980 and beleive me it was great fun...but we were in apartments...very basic apartments, but they were OK.
13 of us....I have never laughed so much in all my life.

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Anne, you're about ten years younger than me so most probably brought up with more creature comforts. BUT in our motorhome we have electricity, running water and a loo and shower! Plus a full size cooker and a very comfy bed. We went to Italy in it three years ago for three weeks and it was great - actually we didn't do any cooking, ate in restaurants despite the built in cooker.

I started camping with the Girl Guides when I was eleven and I think if you start young you find it fun rather than tedious. And so you get into the habit.

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Camping!!! Caravans/Tents etc, Theres some posh gits on here,:eek: Have slept on benches in graveyards, Shop Doorways, etc,etc, when young............Drink has much to answer for.:D Now i'm owd n soft,yeh can shove it were the sun don't shine.

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I fell asleep on the bench at the side of Balti Stan in Clayton. The bench isn't there now :) yep alcohol has a lot to answer for

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I would like to enter Carling into 101. Horrid beer

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OBJECTION !!!! Beer, no matter how horrible (and there are some I know, I've done much research in this area) shouldn't be pitched away ! Chucking Beer is up there with the seven deadly sins. So no! :D

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Agreed, being n experienced drunkard way back, I always worked on the premise= There is NO such thing as a bad pint..........Just some better n others.:D;)

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I am not saying throw the beers away. SACRILEGE! just to have that thought.

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Um there's a lot of them benches going missing:rolleyes::rolleyes: