minor things that make you fume


I'm at my annual festival at Wychwood this weekend, helping set up as per.

Last year I decided my campervan wasn't used enough to warrant tax, mot and insurance, so instead bought a fancy pants tee pee tent and had great fun organising everything I need in boxes for the boot. Decided to go in the xj6 and enjoy myself on the way to Cheltenham, so loaded it up to the rafters.

It wouldn't start. Ffs! It was perfect earlier this week, but it seems to be developing random spontaneous faults despite me spending hours on it. Got it going after a few minutes tinkering. Drove off fine. Then it started cutting out at idle at junctions .... more tinkering.

Finally got to the event, signed in and fancied a cuppa ... if course, like a rookie, the stove is the last thing to unpack out of the car, so I have to put up the new tent first. One pole .... easy .... around 30 pegs. Ffs! Since the last time I put a tent up, I've aged 20 years and without realising it, this has become hard work, very hard work. I'm knackered, and I haven't started work yet ... or set up the stove.

Then I started to realise the things I'd forgotten ... my lunch, my dinner, my bacon for breakfast ... morale plummeted. 😪

Oh and the inflatable mattress. Mrs Chrismpw gad insisted I test these for leaks, so I had unpacked them, inflated them and left them in the spare room overnight. They're still there.

Have been up since 4.
 
I'm at my annual festival at Wychwood this weekend, helping set up as per.

Last year I decided my campervan wasn't used enough to warrant tax, mot and insurance, so instead bought a fancy pants tee pee tent and had great fun organising everything I need in boxes for the boot. Decided to go in the xj6 and enjoy myself on the way to Cheltenham, so loaded it up to the rafters.

It wouldn't start. Ffs! It was perfect earlier this week, but it seems to be developing random spontaneous faults despite me spending hours on it. Got it going after a few minutes tinkering. Drove off fine. Then it started cutting out at idle at junctions .... more tinkering.

Finally got to the event, signed in and fancied a cuppa ... if course, like a rookie, the stove is the last thing to unpack out of the car, so I have to put up the new tent first. One pole .... easy .... around 30 pegs. Ffs! Since the last time I put a tent up, I've aged 20 years and without realising it, this has become hard work, very hard work. I'm knackered, and I haven't started work yet ... or set up the stove.

Then I started to realise the things I'd forgotten ... my lunch, my dinner, my bacon for breakfast ... morale plummeted. 😪

Oh and the inflatable mattress. Mrs Chrismpw gad insisted I test these for leaks, so I had unpacked them, inflated them and left them in the spare room overnight. They're still there.

Have been up since 4.
Is this the place you spilled beer in your shoes Chris? You don’t seem to have much luck at this festival. At least tell us you remembered to pack the fez? 🤔
 

Last year I decided my campervan wasn't used enough to warrant tax, mot and insurance, so instead bought a fancy pants tee pee tent
Another vehicle. I'm building this picture in my mind that your an arthur daley sort, I think mostly because the jag, anyway, do you or have you ever owned a vehicle that takes flight? cessna, helicopter, microlight, ppc?
 
I'm at my annual festival at Wychwood this weekend, helping set up as per.

Last year I decided my campervan wasn't used enough to warrant tax, mot and insurance, so instead bought a fancy pants tee pee tent and had great fun organising everything I need in boxes for the boot. Decided to go in the xj6 and enjoy myself on the way to Cheltenham, so loaded it up to the rafters.

It wouldn't start. Ffs! It was perfect earlier this week, but it seems to be developing random spontaneous faults despite me spending hours on it. Got it going after a few minutes tinkering. Drove off fine. Then it started cutting out at idle at junctions .... more tinkering.

Finally got to the event, signed in and fancied a cuppa ... if course, like a rookie, the stove is the last thing to unpack out of the car, so I have to put up the new tent first. One pole .... easy .... around 30 pegs. Ffs! Since the last time I put a tent up, I've aged 20 years and without realising it, this has become hard work, very hard work. I'm knackered, and I haven't started work yet ... or set up the stove.

Then I started to realise the things I'd forgotten ... my lunch, my dinner, my bacon for breakfast ... morale plummeted. 😪

Oh and the inflatable mattress. Mrs Chrismpw gad insisted I test these for leaks, so I had unpacked them, inflated them and left them in the spare room overnight. They're still there.

Have been up since 4.
Also .... I have no oil for cooking. Do we think its ok to fry stuff in sun lotion?
 
I love folk music, I like sea shanties, I love the history they tell.


Ask me what I think about the prospect of this festival delight. I feel this is not overtly inclusive.

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I'm willing to place a bet that its misogynistic because the drunken sailor is " put in a bed with the captain's daughter" - not realising that a captain's daughter is s cat-o-nine-tails.

I'm half tempted to go and put this nonsense put it right!
 

By choice and careful planning I live in a small quiet town in the countryside.

A neighbour moved in, from Swindon, last year and brought the city with them. Now I might as well live in London ffs.

I can't even cut the wires for this eyesore because they've festooned the place with cctv.

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Nice that. Bet you can't wait for Christmas.
 
I love folk music, I like sea shanties, I love the history they tell.


Ask me what I think about the prospect of this festival delight. I feel this is not overtly inclusive.

View attachment 310572

I'm willing to place a bet that its misogynistic because the drunken sailor is " put in a bed with the captain's daughter" - not realising that a captain's daughter is s cat-o-nine-tails.

I'm half tempted to go and put this nonsense put it right!
can you take a camera crew with you if you do?
 
I'm at my annual festival at Wychwood this weekend, helping set up as per.

Last year I decided my campervan wasn't used enough to warrant tax, mot and insurance, so instead bought a fancy pants tee pee tent and had great fun organising everything I need in boxes for the boot. Decided to go in the xj6 and enjoy myself on the way to Cheltenham, so loaded it up to the rafters.

It wouldn't start. Ffs! It was perfect earlier this week, but it seems to be developing random spontaneous faults despite me spending hours on it. Got it going after a few minutes tinkering. Drove off fine. Then it started cutting out at idle at junctions .... more tinkering.

Finally got to the event, signed in and fancied a cuppa ... if course, like a rookie, the stove is the last thing to unpack out of the car, so I have to put up the new tent first. One pole .... easy .... around 30 pegs. Ffs! Since the last time I put a tent up, I've aged 20 years and without realising it, this has become hard work, very hard work. I'm knackered, and I haven't started work yet ... or set up the stove.

Then I started to realise the things I'd forgotten ... my lunch, my dinner, my bacon for breakfast ... morale plummeted. 😪

Oh and the inflatable mattress. Mrs Chrismpw gad insisted I test these for leaks, so I had unpacked them, inflated them and left them in the spare room overnight. They're still there.

Have been up since 4.

Did the fez get it's annual outing?
 

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