Top tips for purchasing temporary accommodation from car boot sales

Should you ever get the inclination to purchase a tent from a car boot sale or second-hand for that matter, here's your top tip for the day. Ask this question to save hours of head-scratching and irritation -

"Has it got instructions with it matey???"

If the response is anything other than the affirmative say "n'er mind then" and move onto the next stall.

Why this advice on a wet Sunday afternoon?

Well, guess what P.J. went and bought at a car boot while stopping over with my Mum and Dad in Darley Dale - only a bloomin great big tent. A Halfords Urban Escape Himalaya 4 Person Tent complete with 4 sleeping bags and two camping lanterns for the princely sum of £9!!

Now it's not perfect some of the poles are split and taped up but as the pictures reveal it ain't bad and has had very little use (the chap said they'd only used it the once and given up on it because of the rain (what a wimp eh!)).

But it had no instructions with it so whereas Halfords describes setup time as being 25 minutes the reality is more like 1hr 25minutes and much aggravation. And as you'd expect purchase of tent brings immediate change in weather from good enough for ride over to Darley Dale to chucking it down with rain. Great this country is for weather, eh!

Still for £9 I shouldn't really complain should I???


P.J. and Janette with £9 worth of Krypton Factor!



P.J. in his new second-hand tent! Wonder if we can send him off camping somewhere for a few weeks?