Yet another lovely visit to our favourite site, tinged this time with a little sadness at the increasing number of purple pegs (seasonal pitches) and also much reduced opening hours at the reception / shop. We don't have an issue with the club needing to offer seasonal pitches as a means of collecting revenue to maintain the site but not at the detriment of those of us who still like to tour. It seems at Englethwaite, the best pitches are now taken up by seasonals and to be pitched surrounded by empty units left us feeling that we had perhaps parked up in a caravan storage yard. We have always had the pick of pitches at this site, all large and well maintained but we fear if more purple pegs appear, this will no longer be the case and we would therefore knock it off our list. Whilst the reception doesn't always need to be open especially if the wardens are busy with other jobs, it now appears to only be open minimally especially Sunday to Thursday. Ordinarily though we would expect to see wardens out and about the site, chatting, gardening, tidying etc, but on our last visit, in some part, there was no wardens on site at all. They were having an afternoon off, much deserved you might say but it seems with the reception closed most of the time and no sight nor sound of them around the site, what were they having an afternoon off from??? Not having a dig, just making observations. The shop also lost revenue during the day as on more than one occasion, we wandered over to make a 'treat' purchase, only to find it was closed. We weren't the only ones either. We will visit again as we love it but if things continue the way they have changed over the last couple of years, we may not be visiting as regularly.