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One of the pleasures of retirement is being able to take holiwags whenever we want.  No need to choose school holidays when prices are inflated and, worse still, there’s loads of lousy rotten kids about.

Besides cruises and package hols we make the most of our caravan.  It follows that, off-peak, the other caravanners tend to be old gits like ourselves; indeed, we are frequently the youngest on site.  I have often thought as I’ve pulled the curtain back in a shower block cubicle that one of these days I’ll find an old ‘un, pegged out and twitching on the shower tray.  Would I attempt to revive him, all pink and wrinkly, or leave him where he was and find another cubicle?

I hope not to find out.

Another observation I have is that I can bear out what Jay of The Inbetweeners says about caravan sites, that they are “dripping with clunge”.  He’s absolutely right but, of course, the talent is mostly in their eighties.  I probably couldn’t manage it anyway these days; but if I did I know they’d be eternally grateful.

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John Coopey

Wed 2nd Oct 2019 18:13

I'm afraid "ideas" is all it is these days, MC.

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 2nd Oct 2019 16:26

"Rogering old biddies..."? JC, I trust all those upright stones at Stonehenge didn't give you ideas!!

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John Coopey

Wed 2nd Oct 2019 10:17

Ha ha, Brian.
The difference is that my days of posing a danger to women are long gone whereas my days of posing a danger to motorway traffic are still ahead of me.

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Wed 2nd Oct 2019 09:07

Well, now you mention it...both.

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John Coopey

Tue 1st Oct 2019 23:51

Do you mean the one in the post about rogering old biddies, Brian, or the one in the comment about careening my van down the M1 at 60mph?
And thanks for the”Like”, Trevor.

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Tue 1st Oct 2019 23:44

John

Your last sentence has put the fear of God into me. I was very cautious before...now I'm terrified!!!

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John Coopey

Tue 1st Oct 2019 23:32

I feel the same, MC, that the years of my youth seemed far simpler times. But I wonder if this is the perspective of the aged? Will my kids, for instance, look back in 40 years time at their lives as they are today and see them as “far simpler times”?
And I have to say that, on balance, I support the protection of sites like Stonehenge through restricted access. English Heritage’s on-site educational support is extremely good too.
What does perplex me though on the aspect of caravanning is that I along with others am allowed to lug one at 60mph on public roads with no instruction or validation of my competence.

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 1st Oct 2019 20:55

I lived in Wiltshire back in the fifties and as a youth managed a good
number of bike trips around that under-estimated county. In those
days places like Stonehenge were free of the tourist label, charges
and protective barriers. Happy, more innocent, less confined and
regulated days, despite the comparatively recent turmoil of war,
Looking back, how glad I am that I was young then - when we seemed to have the world at our feet and took so much joy from
simple pleasures.

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John Coopey

Tue 1st Oct 2019 16:50

Thanks for this, MC. We traveled the A303 when we visited Stonehenge a couple of weeks ago. You’d need a mortgage to get in there now but membership of English Heritage got us in free.

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 1st Oct 2019 15:47

Another welcome chuckle from this always dependable source of
entertainment, information and discourse (yes, I said DIS-course!).
I had a static caravan on a coastal site in Devon (county of birth
where numerous relations still live) and enjoyed it for the sheer
convenience of being able to pack up the car and get out of town
whenever I felt the need for a change and the pleasures of the seaside with all its old memories. I wouldn't go for the sort that
gets towed.(being stuck behind one on the A303 has never been my idea of fun!)..and would probably settle for a VW caravanette or similar instead, but I readily recognise the appeal of instant
travel of a self-contained nature that is on hand at any time.
There's a special freedom that appeals -
The sort that comes equipped with wheels!! ?

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