Camping heaven or holiday hell?

Ah camping, how I love and loathe you in equal measures.

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Ah camping, how I love and loathe you in equal measures.

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We’ve done two family camping trips these school holidays. Wonderful, memory-making stuff, and simultaneously terrible for neck alignment and sensible dietary choices.

We do these trips with other families, which is marvellous for several reasons.

The children entertain each other reasonably well, and if you forget to bring something (towels, coffee… hypothetically, of course), chances

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A woman’s ramblings about being “stuck in holiday cottage with family” has humored users on Mumsnet.

In a post shared on the online forum under the username Thousandthingstosay, the woman provided a running commentary of day three of her family trip in the Peak District of North England in the U.K., detailing the “highlights so far” in a series of bullet points.

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