What am I going to do about this weather??

I have two pulleys. Use them all the time. Wet, cool weather is to be expected in Scotland and the Lake District. Anyone who goes camping in those places and doesn't expect it is being unrealistic. Surely everyone knows The Lake District has one of the highest rainfalls in the country?

I've woken up by Loch Morlich in August when there was frost on the outside of the tent. One has to "be prepared" as the scouts say.

Mind you, I used a pulley in Oxfordshire too. Installed it above the stairs. I could reach it to haul up and down and to hang things on from the landing. It was brilliant. Got the idea of the stairwell siting from my sister in Norfolk who had installed one in her small house (containing four kids) there.

I have a pulley , an airer, a twirly and a tumble dryer! The scouts would be proud of me bags

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I do hope those camping wherever get decent weather, by the way.

Wasn't talking about rain, thatbags. You do not expect 0 degrees and frost in August, not even in the Lakes.

In the utility room I have a bar from which I can hang all manner of things from dripping rain coats to knickers and walking boots.
I've two lines outside - one covered in the hanger and another I can string along a stretch of garden.
I've also got a tumble dryer in an outside shed for those damp days when nothing dries outside, nor inside if the heating isn't on.
In the winter when the wood burner is doing it's thing, I've got an airer and hang sheets from the mezzanine.

#interestingfact: All clothes bought in America can be tumble-dried but nothing which I've bought in France.

Think I've got it covered.

When son-in-law was a student vicar, the bathroom attached to his room had a rail from wall-to-wall above the bath, high enough to drip-dry long albs etc. Very useful for all the laundry.

Have just found out my family came back late last night. They'd heard the weather forecast, too, and did not fancy waking up to frost in their summer holidays!

I remember camping in the snow one new year in the lakes. As long as the kit is right according to Wainright there is no such thing as bad weather. In case I get a reputation for profligacy I line dry most of the year but I finish off in the dryer if the weather makes it personal. Absolutely no sleep better than on pillowcases which have been dried on the lavender bushes.

You do in some of the mountainous parts of Scotland, jend. Even in August. Have had to reverse quite a long way down a single track road because it was blocked by snow. In August.

And, as I said, woken to frost on my tent. In August.

A mountain rescue chappie I know says up in the Scottish mountains is a sub-arctic climate.

I like weather.

They were not up a mountain, bags. They were in Langdale, and I stand by what I said, you do not expect it in August. If that was the case everybody would go wearing winter clothes.

Snow happens in the Durham Dales, too, so we know what it's like. They were ready for cold and wet, but not 0 degrees. Apparently the grandkids slept well because they had the thicker sleeping bags. They walked at least six miles every day, including the seven year old granddaughter who complains about walking up the hill to my house after school.

Yes. Fine. djen. I'm sorry your relatives found it too cold but coldness in the Lake District would never surprise me. I grew up just south of there.

Maybe global cooling has set in as well [wicked leer emoticon]

Yes, I like weather too, ffinn. Never know what to expect here so life is full of interesting surprises .

I'm wearing three layers and thick hiking socks now, by the way. If I were camping in my garden tonight I'd definitely need warm winter woollies both during the night and in the morning, however warm and sunny it might get later in the day. We are 30m above sea level.

I'd never go camping without taking winter clothes. Not in northern Britain anyhow.

What do you do in the winter, bags? Hibernate?

'Wet and windy' forecast tomorrow and my gardener/handyman says he is coming anyway.....maybe I will ask him to clean a carpet.....must think of jobs I need doing inside, when what I really want is for him to work on an outside wall.....

I hibernate!

I reckon she's got a great big Aga, a feather bed and six hotties. And a dram to keep her warm

Mind you, she could always borrow Rory.

I manage to almost never use the tumble drier by having the central heating boiler in a cupboard in which I have a rail to dry things on hangers and a metal, 4 armed tea towel rail which underwear and socks fit on nicely. Can get a whole machine load on it in the winter and it dries by the next day. Towels and sheets go on those hefty metal hangers they give you when you have curtains dry cleaned. And I have no Northern blood whatsoever. (DH is from Co Durham though, perhaps something has rubbed off)

In winter I wear five layers if necessary and I avoid camping.

Rory would squash me!

I have always just had a garden line/whirly and an indoor airer. When the kids were little I had a dangerous contraption which was a wooden airer that stood over a convector heater which could be enclosed with a flannelette cover . As a child we always had a pulley in our home, over the bath..which was in the kitchen..in Wimbledon which is even South of London!

The son who came home was born in Northumberland as was his dad. I was born in Yorkshire, where we had really nice summers when I was a kid. It was often warmer outside the house than in.
I feel quite sorry for you, bags, never having known a summer when you did not have to wear winter woollies.

I went to a summer guide camp in Arkengarthdale in in 1962. It was warm and sunny then. We had to dig our latrines and make washbowl stands out of branches and string!