Where was Bertie? He spent another night at Halforth Farm, by Milnthorpe. We'd already paid our £8 for Sunday night when we arrived on Thursday night.
Weather: Sunshine, giving way to sunny intervals. Warm.
As the rain came down, and down, and down, on Saturday, and the camping field that had been perfectly firm when we arrived became a churned up morass, I couldn't help but worry as to whether we'd be able to get Bertie off his pitch and back to the road. He's got much better tyres for muddy conditions than he had a year ago, but even so I didn't want to put all trust into them.
Surely the rain will stop soon, I thought, but it just fell and fell and fell.
Despite having only gone to bed at 0430, I sprang up at 0815 on Sunday and went out in the rain to inspect the ground conditions. My assessment was that there was still a firm line we could take as far as the exit, where we would just have a few feet of sloppy mud to cross in between the boards that had been laid down by way of a temporary road. Returning to Bertie, I roused Mick and asked him if he was up to leaving in ten minutes (before other motorhomes started moving), or whether he wanted to stay until 6pm (the latest permitted departure time, by which time the field should have had six hours of sunshine in which to dry out (but could we trust that forecast given Saturday's performance?)). Not long after 0830, Bertie made it out of the field without drama, and without a single dot of mud along his flanks (unlike another motorhome I'd seen with mud liberally spattered having apparently spun its wheels).
Our departure past the school was delayed firstly by an oncoming finisher running down the road, then by another finisher who had been on the pavement until she took a spectacular face-plant just in front of us, spilling into the road.
Only when we were half way to Milnthorpe did I think that 0930 might be considered somewhat early to arrive at a campsite, but given that we must qualify as a regular customer now, and knowing that they had no other guests, we proceeded anyway. It was sunny by the time we arrived and stayed that way for much of the rest of the day.
Unsurprisingly, we had a lazy day, including afternoon naps and watching the football, although I did stir myself to take a walk up the lane and back late in the afternoon.
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