Last year we went to Glastonbury well chuffed with our tesco pop up
hexagonal tent that we got. It was a bargain, and we were showing off how it took 5 mins to put up, while everyone else was sweating in the sun..
A load of us were there - and we built a camp fire as usual. It was dark and this new fangled tent had the biggest guy ropes in the world... (or so it seemed and the world and its dog tripped over it.... which snapped the pop up tent.... but hey we could sleep under it. Then the thunder and lightening came..... and it collapsed altogether.... we led there praying that the tree our tent was under wouldnt get hit by lightening.....
Later the sun shone and we managed with the help of a few sticks to
ressurect the tent.....only we moved it too close to the fire..... and in a
drunken stupor.... and in their enthusiasm to get a roaring fire going to
escape the mud... it roared too much, and the embers fell onto the tent.....
alas the Tescos tent was no more. That night we werent so smug as we slept in the mud under someones gazebo...... and it was so trashed we darent take it back to tescos for a refund.
We bought a new tent after that and took it to sunny Glade... |