Fawlty Towers

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Bespoke tentage anyone? Huge round ones for those of us fortunate enough to have an arse. poly-tunnels for the giants and back-packs fer the littler lot. I want a tent that I can stand up in so that I don`t have to pad about in the rain fer a wee. The one I bought-"festival tent" looked the biz in the box. First few nights were dandy. zips broke. Huge and, rather intimidating throngs of insect life started moving in in their thousands and living (layers deep) in writhing piles in small spaces left in the mesh. I fed it a kebab and shot it. Pulled a few bits off too. Festival tents are pants. Just what was festive?Oh yeah, the tent I had before that...first night in a farmers field on Cranbourne Chase, a cow did what useless, ugly, smelly, challenged but, rather tasty cows do down the side of it. I fell asleep on my back with fag in mouth and burnt a hole through it too. Don`t try this at home kids-we are trained professionals!!! Could see stars through the hole though......

[Beer Beast]

Any veterans of the A41 bypass in 1991 remember 3 months in tents on a scout camp near King's Langley? The thieving "Bob-a-Job Bastards" nicked my mates watch from the shower room while she was having a shower and the site director, a particularly evil piece of work, used to kick any lump bulging from the side of a tent to see if the lump was human, awake and ready for work; I had a lump on the side of my head the size of an egg for weeks! On the plus side the craic was good, the site crew were cool and I persued my secondary specialisms in Moroccan botany and practical origami with a passion verging on obsession. :-)

[deepdigger]

I'd just love for someone to kick me to see if I was awake and ready for work. No job is worth that kind of abuse and retaliation would be fair if not compulsary, I think!!

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[Sith]

My worst tentage memory of Rectory Farm was waking up in the middle of a massive Lincolnshire thunder storm, and wondering if the Faraday cage effect would protect me from a lightning strike to my ridge pole.

Also recall a role reversed version of Beer Beast's story, when we flushed the toilets simultaneously in order to deliver a fiery hot shower to the director![:0]

[roywhiting]

Ah yes, the overflowing septic tank. I remember the Kaiser spitting feathers over that one...but he was always one for stamping his feet and having tantrums like an overgrown child.

[deepdigger]

Some people who I worked with got kicked off a campsite cos the site director was caught using the kiddies trampoline in the small hours!!

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[troll]

Hope that was`nt metaphorical.....

[deepdigger]

No the campsite owner caught him at about two in the morning bouncing on the trampoline and laughing his head off, this guy was so uptight during the working day that you could'nt get a smirk out of him never mind a laugh. If he hadn't laughed so loud he would#nt have woken the owner!!

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