Hardstanding

Ooops....we are going there this coming Sunday for a week ....should we cancel and go elsewhere!!!  Incidentally if you go to our sister clubs 'newish' site at Conkers...you will experience a similar problem with awning pegs.  

I wouldn't say cancel but I would definately aim to arive on site by 11am if you can to try and get to the front of the queue.

We only started caravaning in July last year and couldn't understand why people went for the hard standing pitches first but after the second trip and getting up to a very damp awning we now understand why hard standings are busy.

hardstandings are not without flooding problems , we pitched on number thirteen at willingcott , now i`m not suspicious as I was born on the thirteenth , in fact the warden and myself had a giggle about me picking that number I tend to pick the pitch and jon will reverse onto it with a bit of flapping arm directions , all went well , full awning up , filled with the usual , that night the heavens opened , the awning was flapping about in the wind !! I woke Jon up and told him I was going to repeg the awning down . He thought I was mad as it was 3am , but I couldnt rest so out I went , as I stepped into the awning the water came over my ankle bones !!! I was wide awake then , couldnt help but see the funny side even though the water was freezing , repegged the awning but we moved pitch the next day , having to take the awning down then erect it again , the wardens who were running the site for the first time that year were shocked, but some regulars were well aware that number thirteen always floods . Perhaps these sort of problems should be past on to new wardens , who I have to say were lovely , so it isnt always the grass pitches that get completely flooded folks !!