I’d rather be a ‘loner’ in a cold leaky tent any day

IF you love camping but hate the rain, you have three choices. You can (a) stay at home and watch telly, (b) go camping in a country with a decent climate, or (c) cop out and rent a motor home.

While your kids might want to do (a) and you’d really like to do (b) but can’t afford it, your other option is to try out (c).

You may thus find yourself behind the wheel of a 3.5 tonne house-on-wheels, scraping under trees and past hedges in narrow country lanes. Instead of being able to pitch your tent in any old field in the middle of nowhere, you have to go to proper campsites with electric hook-ups, to park alongside other motorhomes full of retired couples and their arthritic labradors.