What I did in 2011, Part 3 – Went Camping

I don’t do camping as a rule. Every time I have been camping (except for the holiday in France when I was 10) it had rained. Not just a bit of rain, the full-on deluge kind of rain. Once was at a music festival in Fishguard, and it was beyond horrendous. And that was just the endless techno-dub that thudthudthuded constantly while I was there. Good double set from Dodgy, though.

Anyway, these experiences have kept me from getting under canvas for years and years. But now, my circle of friends are all seriously into their camping, so it was more or less inevitable.

I was given a tent, and this made it harder to please ‘lack of tent, can’t go’.

This was last year. The weather wasn’t great, but I didn’t get rained on. So when the subject of camping came up this year, I said yes. The gang went to Aberaeron, the weather was really quite nice (if not very sunny) and we only got a torrential downpour on the last day when it came to packing up our tents.

And a few weeks later, I was persuaded to go to the Workhouse Festival where I rather enjoyed myself, despite the rain.  When I got back I got a new, improved tent (Millets summer sale, reduced form £59 to £15, bargain), so I’m ready for anything. Even the rain.

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Uke!

It’s that time again, when I acquire a new musical instrument…. what will it be now?

That’s right – a Ukulele.

For various convoluted reasons – that I won’t go into now, but partly involve a possible camping trip in the next few weeks – I have decided to get a ukulele. Since it is really nothing more than a simple, tiny, guitar, I don’t see that I’ll struggle to learn to play it.

The only thing which might be difficulty, is finding songs to play on it.