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.