Camping Adventure - Day Four

Day 4

We had planned to get up mega early. We failed. It's now 0900 just finished cleaning and tidying etc. and as the weather doesn’t look too good so we are going to do a bit of shopping in and around Chichester.
It's a bit rainy but otherwise enjoying the camping experience the sound of trains is getting a little annoying every time they hoot charli sings: “#he-llo#” back she says it sounds like they are saying hello, this seems to be the onset of some kind of camping hysteria disease syndrome. We have now found a new home-from-home in the tent and refer to it as ‘home’ when we are talking about returning to camp. Sweet.

There is an interesting family of Chavs sited opposite us - who we can only guess consists of Mother, Father, Daughter and Son-in-Law. They appear to be living inside a gazebo and sleeping in a huge dome tent - quite strange. The Chav Crew men, (as we have affectionately dubbed them), have just left and the Chav Mum is cleaning and washing whilst continuously smoking and discussing with her fat daughter about the benefits of Teflon and her favourite type of Richmond. It does seem however, that they are not all as bad as you would expect or first assume. The Son-in-Law said hi to me but the parents just blanked me when I gave them a happy-camper morning-greeting on the way to the shower block. Ah well one can but try.
Wasp kill count 7 dead, 1 lost in action presumed dead. We are currently trying to eat but keep getting attacked. We’re dealing with it.

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We have just left the campsite, I mentioned that I don’t really like Citroen 2 C V's and in response, Charli likened my face to one?!
“You’re FACE looks like a 2 C V!!“
Nice huh? Shortly after this I did a typical man classic and realised I had left my wallet in the tent so back we go what a fool.

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We got just back from Chichester. Its okay, quite busy, a little bit better than our home town but equally as boring. In my personal opinion, these days it’s no good going any kind of distance to go shopping, the places are all the same but we got a few bits then ate some lunch in the park where we watched as some local village idiots kicked a ball around and shouted primitive abuse at each other. We have got back now and we need to decide what is for dinner. What am I going to EAT TODAY lets go shopping. Its raining but what the hell.

1730 - another charli entry
I just killed a spider! haha! But Owen near hates me for it. I think that walloping it with a plate was allot easier on the eight-legged messenger of the devil then smoking it out like he tried to do! I’ve never killed a spider myself before but after asking Owen about 600 TIMES in a rather irritating west country accent and he still refused I decided to take matters into my own hands. haha!

It’s still raining. We were going to go find food but got distracted by tent raving to Owens music box instead-followed by watching the rain drops roll down the side of the tent, giving them names and racing them. We then tried to recreate what music sounds like in da club by moving the box round and round our heads at high speeds. We think we have discovered tent/camping related hysteria.

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Just sat down with some beer after going crazy in Somerfields. Charli made potato wedges which worked very well. Being a simple being I just cooked meat and spicy beans. Ha! We both agreed we had a good team cooking event followed by operation washing up followed be operation tidy tent so here we are I bloody love camping and I’m sure my lady feels the same xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx woooooooooooooooooooo
‘til ‘morrow good readers.

Camping Adventure - Day Three

Day Three

We found at the local Co-op - which is rubbish - a strange addition to the cash point. It was a head phone jack (pictured here). I'm not too sure of it's purpose, if one was blind and needing audio assistance then one would be unable to locate it on the unit as it is so small!! strange.

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Got up really early leaving Charli in bed and made her breakfast. Think I scored a few points there!

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Charli woke up about 8-ish. We ate some beans and bacon, then tidied up ready to head off and find a beach. The weather is scorching so should be a great day.
We also thought that we ought to document the adventures of our neighbours in the big red van. Well . . . nothing to report as yet. Since Sunday they have not left the van. It would appear that they are Dad and Daughter. He's quite old and apparently fragile and spends his time staring out the front window of the van. She sits in the back of the van at the table seemingly engrossed in whatever is on the screen of her laptop. We'll keep you updated.
We have looked at the map to find a nice beach and decided to try a place called Selsey. Lets hope Owen's map skills are up to the job.

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To put it in a calm, collected "I'm-sure-we're-not-lost" kind of way, it would appear that Owen's map skills still need some improving. A.K.A. he's just realised that we cant get to Selsey through Pagham as there's a MASSIVE GREAT AREA OF WATER IN THE WAY! This little obstacle is known as Pagham Harbour. So the plan for the time being to check Pagham out.

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Okay so Pagham isn't all that. In fact Owen's quite p****d off. The place is really tiny: about 20 houses, one shop, a big patch of water and an arcade yet its got a massive ramp set up!?

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Had a coffee - we're going to try again to find Selsey in the hope that it's nice?!
Just a general note about the area. Something that has been causing us some amusement on our travels so far is that there are alot of signs for retards about. Instead of signs for 'Seafront' we keep seeing: 'THE SEA' --> And upon leaving Hunston there was a sign saying 'THANKYOU' we are not sure what we should be thanked for. . . leaving maybe?! All seems like it was made for simple minded people to us.

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Amazing! For the first time since we arrived our neighbours in the red van . . . . WENT OUT!!! We got back from Selsey and they had also just arrived back at camp. Owen was so excited by this and almost jumped out of his seat shouting 'Charli look they moved!' - bless him. We are just having a quick tidy then we are off back to The Olive Tree to test the cuisine that the owner ranted about.

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At the pub now. Just eaten and are now having a couple of drinks before we head back to camp. Owen had a traditional pizza [cheese and tomato jobby] and Charli had lasagne - its Italian night - BOGOF special! All very nice, no complaints here - much better then the newly renamed 'Grumpy Barman' where we go for eats back home. We are impressed. All the staff are smiling 'til their faces fall off and are very frindly. Lovely. Owen successfully broke the ice and nearly the whole pub as we walked in but an overly-nice lady and a tea towel later and all was well again.
I might have to make this my last entry in Owens PDA otherwise I will no longer be able to be annoyed by all this geeky technology bizzwizz etc - and we really cant have that. I will however continue to censor his reports and maybe type for him as I’m much faster at it than him! 'signing off' charli x x x

Wasp kill update 5 down and signs of red ants but we smushed ‘em.

While walking back from the pub we saw some sheep in a field. Owen shined his torch at them - being the inquisitive being he is. We didn’t realise their eyes glow green we nearly shat a cat each!! Charli was near hysterics so we rushed home. Madness. Gonna be dreaming about evil green eyed sheep for years to come. Also there was one crazy sheep who has been eating the grass on the other side of the fence every single time we go past. Bird brained sheep - the grass is actually nicer on his side! l don’t understand!!

Camping Adventure - Day Two

Day Two

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light rain Yum toast is good. Just having breakfast - it's quite satisfying grilling toast on this camping stove thingy but i think i need a little more practice as this particular attempt has a couple of burnt regions.

Had a lovely time last night the pub is about twenty minutes walk away, very modern and we think probably newly refitted. We met the owner. He shamelessly plugged the pub food and the special BOGOF Italian, Indian and Steak Nights in a rather charming Irish accent. We also had the pleasure of chatting to a local lady - name unknown - we asked her a few questions about the area, after hearing about our general interests etc, she recommend we should go anywhere other than Littlehampton - too late but you only learn from experience eh? Even if it is someone elses! The lady of no-name also suggested that Arundel would be a nice day out.

The facilities are rather good and clearly newly refurbished. Generally allround good campsite its quiet and far enough away from the fuss of the coast. Both charli and i are impressed so far.

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Just got back changed our minds about lunch at The Olive Branch so eating bacon at camp instead. We went to Bognor town and found a Morrisons we raided that for supplies for lunch then realised we wanted to explore a bit so put more money in the meter as rain was holding off. Then we discovered a few more shops and got some gifts for our peeps back home in sunny Hailsham. We found the beach. There isn't much to look at but the weather is pants so we'll come back. After having a bit of a nose around we headed back for coffee. After a short downpour the sun began to shine. Being a self-proclaimed sun-worshipper Owen instantly sprang into action. We developed a plan to purchase large amounts of food - mostly meat - and went to Somerfields in Littlehampton to get it.

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Just finished a huge Barbeque consisting of minted lamb grill steaks - 2 each, loads of kebabs and ribs, and we created a corn on the cob masterpiece cooked on the barbie wrapped in foil with butter - fabulous!! Jamie Oliver had better watch out with us on the scene!! The only problem with all of this being that we burnt a barbeque shaped patch in their perfectly grassed (not) field. After pouring about three litres of water on said patch of grass and dancing strangely on it to try and turn it into a less-square-shaped patch of mud, we were beginning to attract the attention of our fellow campers. So we gave up.The end result was a dark patch of mud with some loose grass thrown over the top. And a chair over the top of that. Hopefully no-one will notice. gulp. wasp frag count on day two...4 dead. Planning tomorrow. It's been nice all evening so if it's nice we will go to Chichester but if not then Owen wants to go to an Air Museum. Signing off night people.