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We’re Michelle🐇 & Darren🐎travelling around Europe in our motorhome Bertie and beyond to chase the winter sun✈️
In the summer months we Manage a Campsite in beautiful Dorset where our adventures continue at the weekends

Two days off of the real job…Saturday the wind and rain paired up to make it a miserable morning. Darren headed out in h...
31/08/2026

Two days off of the real job…

Saturday the wind and rain paired up to make it a miserable morning. Darren headed out in his waterproofs with Ash early to collect a climbing frame for the kids while I rode out the stormy weather sat in the van.
Darren was back by lunchtime having done his good deed and we had a lazy afternoon for once watching The Gentleman to refresh our memories before the new series is released next week.

Laura had invited us around to their place for dinner so by 6pm we were dressed and armed with a couple of bottles of wine. The smell of Laura’s home cooked beef and mushroom pie teamed with delicious dauphinoise potatoes was an absolute delight to the senses. The taste was sensational especially Laura’s own recipe of the potatoes with half white potatoes and half sweet potatoes, it was absolutely delicious. For dessert Laura and had made a mixed fruit crumble with apples and berries picked from the farm by Poppy and Teddy. Another triumph for Laura’s mastery cooking skills.
After we got home from dinner Darren planned to watch some boxing but I started to flag before it even really got going and was in a full on food coma sleep as soon as the lights went out for me.

Sunday was an earlier start than were used to with Flames and Feast, Laura picked us up just after 9.30am and we hit the road to the venue to work at a post wedding dinner and drinks.
Luckily the rain held off for the morning to get set up and into the afternoon for drinks on the lawn followed by a full on feast of pork, trout and potatoes over the flames accompanied by fresh salads and vegetables.
We were finished by 5pm which was a nice change for us but both bloody tired so all plans of going out soon forgotten and we snuggled in our home eating pizza with salad and watching some more of The Gentleman. I was flagging before 9pm so defeated by the tiredness hopped into bed for an early night.

Bank holidays don’t apply on campsites, there’s still work to do so listening to the wind outside it’s going to be a challenging day, so as usual for this time of year we’ll have to be dynamic with our plan to work around the weather onsite. Autumn is definitely on its way!!

Happy for some rain but not the wind…After the festival clear away on Monday we had a well deserved day off Tuesday. We ...
29/08/2026

Happy for some rain but not the wind…

After the festival clear away on Monday we had a well deserved day off Tuesday. We went food shopping and topped up the sports car with fuel, got washing done but there was no rushing around and we even had a walk into Corfe Castle for a drink which turned into three as we spotted a guy we liked who had volunteered at the festival. It was an easy day after the last busy six.

Wednesday to Friday we were back to work for Land & Wave with tents going back up for their final four weeks. We have three more school residential groups and a corporate event left then it’s all down and time to hit the road. The count down has begun.

Thursday I helped at Poppy’s 7th birthday by leading her, Teddy and her friends around on Piggy the pony for an hour. Piggy was very good considering she had never been to a human party before let alone seen balloons or marble run along with a group of excited children 😂 I told the children that too and made up stories of the field parties the ponies have which made them laugh and relax if they were at all nervous.

Yesterday was our last day of our staff, due to less work in September their contracts were ended early and now it’s down to the dream team of two. We’re just hoping for dry warm weather at the end of September as everything needs to go away clean and dry 🙏

We’ve had some much needed rain accompanied by some not wanted wind. It sends us a bit loopy the wind but as always our safari room has with stood all the winds we’ve had thrown at us thankfully.

Saturday is our only day off this weekend as we have a function with Flames and Feast Sunday but we really enjoy the work so actually looking forward to that. Today Darren’s off out to help Ash collect and take down a climbing frame for Poppy and Teddy. We’re always happy to help our friends the Barnes as they always do soo much for everyone. We believe in karma and that’s why we always try to give back as much as we take ‘meteorically speaking’ and we always notice those that don’t!

Anyway it’s currently raining, we’re in our dry comfortable home on wheels with a morning coffee looking out the window at the field starting to look green again 💚

Have a great weekend all!!

OMG our bodies are broken…That was an intense six days helping our friend Ash at the festival serving burgers etc We sta...
25/08/2026

OMG our bodies are broken…

That was an intense six days helping our friend Ash at the festival serving burgers etc
We started working on the Wednesday with me and Darren setting up the stall and gazebo.

Thursday we also started looking after the main blocks of facilities, not porta loos. The gates to the festival opened and it was pretty non stop until Sunday night with all our work. At 10.30pm we closed the stall having run out of venison and fries we thought it was time to call it a day. The dream team of Darren, Charlotte and me joined Ash to watch the last band ‘Quinns Quinney’ play out the festival for the end of another successful year.

Charlotte left at midnight and the three of us stayed out for what was a funny three hours in the barn bar. Reaching bed Monday morning after 3am we slept in until 10am by that time campers were streaming out of all campsites.

One last facilities check to top up toilet rolls, then breakfast with Ash in the crew area, we were ready to tackle taking down the stall.
Done just after 2pm we stopped for some more food before heading off to relax.

After a long well deserved showers we struggled to stay awake watching TV so by 8pm I was tucked up in bed for at least 10 hours sleep 😴 💤

Another year of Purbeck Valley folk festival ✅

13/08/2026

You don’t have to go to university and you don’t have to work inside…here’s a great alternative to both 💙

13/08/2026

Great experience for adults of all ages and stay in one of our bell tents in the beautiful Dorset countryside 💙

And we’re back…With a late start we packed up the van and moved off the campsite before 11am. We had a few planned stops...
12/08/2026

And we’re back…

With a late start we packed up the van and moved off the campsite before 11am. We had a few planned stops along the drive back to East Cowes for the ferry.
First stop BlackGang view point for a homemade salad with a view. This would have also been a good spot for an over night stop as it had an area set back where two lorry’s rested. The view was stunning and the salad healthy but filling.

We moved on to Shanklin Chine to see the waterfall and walk around the old town. Having arrived in the carpark as a van was getting a parking fine we asked the parking warden how we should park to avoid a fine. He directed us to a coach bay and said just pay for a car space at the machine. So we did and thanked him for his help.

To visit Shanklin Chine was quite pricey for what it was but we had no idea until we got inside the gate. It was quite unique to have a waterfall in what looked like a mini rain forest next to a sea side town but it really wasn’t worth £12 each to see.

We had a walk around and out towards the beach, stopping for an ice cream before climbing back up through the old town to the carpark. We decided to head to Tesco where there was a pressure washer to give Bertie a freshen up and while we were there top up with diesel.

Then the last drive on the island was to East Cowes to catch the ferry back to Southampton. The journey back on the ferry we sat out in the sun on the deck enjoying the weather and the views. Well most of the views were nice but we had been saying that the New Forest industrial chimneys look a lot like a mini Chernobyl and are not a very inviting sight, which looked even worse the other day with the New forest fire behind them.

Anyway back on the main land and two hours drive to get home. Back behind our fence and dinner on our plates by 8pm. The end of another adventure.
Back to work!

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