Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!
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I have some instructions on how to roll up underwear, and the correct spectrum if anyone needs it.........!
Oh, and are concours points deducted if labels on tins are "own brand" or Aldi, whereas Waitrose and Fortnum's gain extra's. Marmalade of course MUST be in a designer pot. Wedgwood preferred!
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Ive read so many of the replies, some positive and most negative, I wrote a negative one myself this morning, now I've calmed down it's quite clear to me that most of the anger born from this aweful programme is it has done nothing to help the bad image
constantly portrayed about a hobby/pastime that we all love but constantly have to battle negative attitudes, press and programmes, Let alone even the people we know! It has done nothing but to add fuel to the negative arguement and most hurtful is it made
us all look useless annally retentive incompetents! I bought my Van so we can have plenty of quality time with my kids, exploring, cycling, seaside holidays and fun!! This was not portraid at all!!! It hardly surprising that people think that we just tow our
vans to clog the roads to then sit in a field doing nothing!! This programme could had done so much good but has instead done so much damage and only served to add fuel to the anti caravan brigade!!!..if Carlsberg did replys to this thread, it was embarrassing.
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Feel bad for posting this due to all the other negative posts, but I actually enjoyed it. For sure, some of the six couples had what you might call "TV appeal", what did you really expect?
I both laughed and cringed whilst watching it. I've had no grief in work. I'm not going to be cancelling any bookings, nor my membership. Nor am I going to selling my van, removing any Caravan Club stickers from my car window, or asking for any resignation.
If membership falls, and sites suddenly start losing money, then yeah, the TV program was a mistake, and heads should roll. But, it's got everybody (has it really?) talking about caravanning, and it'll have a lot of people talking about the positives of
camping and/or caravanning.If you've had the mickey taken out of you today, I haven't and all my colleagues know I have a van, then surely you should have enough about you to portray the absolute joy that vanning gives us to any detractor, to negate any negatives from last nights
entertainment.Bring on episode two I say
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Goodness, what a fluff it seems to have caused.
Well, from an unaffected standpoint (Modern campervan, 4WD, no awning) it was clearly theatre not reflecting real life, a sort of 1950's sit-com, and all terribly harmless ...
until...
that bloke ripped the end off a caravan.
Who on earth takes a big caravan on a bit of off-roading up a clearly inappropriate hill and is daft enough to have himself filmed doing it as well?
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Might the glaring lack of official comment be due to everyone at H.O. falling on their own swords as the buck is passed further and further down the line?
Ooh goody. Ritual Hara Kiri. Shouldn't this be in the "New Blood" thread though?
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Goodness, what a fluff it seems to have caused.
Well, from an unaffected standpoint (Modern campervan, 4WD, no awning) it was clearly theatre not reflecting real life, a sort of 1950's sit-com, and all terribly harmless ...
until...
that bloke ripped the end off a caravan.
Who on earth takes a big caravan on a bit of off-roading up a clearly inappropriate hill and is daft enough to have himself filmed doing it as well?
Oh, that'll be the Chairman of The Caravan Club. Such a novice!
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Goodness, what a fluff it seems to have caused.
Well, from an unaffected standpoint (Modern campervan, 4WD, no awning) it was clearly theatre not reflecting real life, a sort of 1950's sit-com, and all terribly harmless ...
until...
that bloke ripped the end off a caravan.
Who on earth takes a big caravan on a bit of off-roading up a clearly inappropriate hill and is daft enough to have himself filmed doing it as well?
The thing was he wasn't just a "bloke". He was the Chairman of the Caravan Club and should know better! Total embarrassment.
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What a pity the high standards and enjoyment we have enjoyed in being members for 38 years were so damaged by what we witnessed last night. A number of members have accurately expressed their views of the Chairman's performance and the damaging impact it
will have had on members and non members alike. He should do the gentlemanly thing and resign immediately.0 -
That was the Club Chairman, showing his expertise. Angles and approaches aren't his main specialist subject.
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Goodness, what a fluff it seems to have caused.
Well, from an unaffected standpoint (Modern campervan, 4WD, no awning) it was clearly theatre not reflecting real life, a sort of 1950's sit-com, and all terribly harmless ...
until...
that bloke ripped the end off a caravan.
Who on earth takes a big caravan on a bit of off-roading up a clearly inappropriate hill and is daft enough to have himself filmed doing it as well?
Jeremy Clarkson and James May, thats who. The CC Chairman has aligned himself with this pair when he should be promoting the virtues of our pastime. Yes the program was comedy gold in many respects, but it did nothing to uphold our support for caravanning. If the Caravan Club had distanced itself from this programme, this thread would have a completely different agenda. As it is, the largest Club associated with caravans and motorhomes has deliberately condoned the behavoir of the anti caravan brigade.
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well i think you have said it all and i agree with nearley everthing thats been said i have just one comment if you cant reverse a caravan you should not be towing one bassett.
Can't agree - that's what a mover is for. Why should someone who can't reverse not have a caravan in this day and age.
Saying that thr MH had a distinct advantage in both reversing trials as it acts like a car unlike something with a trailer on.
And the Chairman has the gall to stand there criticising their reversing after what he did to his van?
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One thing that has got me wondering. If GC has £1K's worth of Wedgewood in his van, is it over its MTPLM?
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I must add my comments to this page regarding the TV show last night. How on earth the Chairman could have agreed to this farce is beyond me. To attempt the dip and dive run with his rig was irresponsible in the extreme. Any idiot could have seen that his
rig was about to ground at the rear. The motorhome had dug a furrow with it's exhaust and to compound it all he did not have four wheel drive engaged when he attempted to get over the hill! All in all the programme just made caravanners look like a bunch of
eccentric pillocks. He should resign forthwith.The thing is he didn't only agree to it but he was in it and made it a bigger farce than it already was after the incident with his van.
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Any one interested in a " I am not in the Caravan Club" sticker .?
Tj
How do we apply for said sticker.
what a plonka the DG is
my sincere appologies to the DG I should have said
what a plonka the chairman is ( how long has he been caravanning ? )
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Haven't read all the previous 51 pages but watched the programme and cringed for the lady who had to reverse their unit, for the first time,just what did that prove.As for the chairman damaging his reputation and caravan well "doing a Ratner" springs to
mind.What a shame, showing our pastime in thislight. Especially with all the hype before hand
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It worries me that the next 2BH the sites are going to be full of people asking for a tree to reverse around and the kids playground being full of caravanners using the see-saw to work out what angles its safe to take their vans up. So come on Mr Chairman
do the right thing and leave caravanning to those who can do it, when I was at school parents and teachers called it using common sense.0 -
Sorry but it failed miserably at being light hearted - the p taking at work this morning is unbelievable...people really think we are all like this - anal(knicker folders!), crap drivers and all over 60!
And you`re really bothered about what others think?
Get a grip.
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Plus another, I shall carry on as before, who cares. All this moaning just reinforces others opinions that caravan owners are all 'stuffed shirts'.
actually I'm new to caravans and think that your attitude is as bad as those on the show - whatever you say everyone cares if they are incorrectly perceived and this show made you a laughing stock
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Anyone else looking forward to the letters page in the next magazine issue?
Write your comments here...Not nearly as many as there will be in Practical Caravan mag.
Write your comments here...if they dare to print half the letters they get about this debacle were going to need a bigger letterbox, it'll be like the old phone directories.
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I think the term is 'ego publishing'. How can the caravaner of the year not have a caravan? If it's camper of the year I could understand the campervans but this was just arrogant ego rampaging around.
How does getting someone who does not tow to tow, get all the tins lined up and under clothes rolled up make any sense in caravannerer of the year?
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We skyplus it and watched it and read comments on here - I do not see the purpose of the programme - is this a regular award or something new? I personally do not think it showed the club in a good light - especially when you saw the chairman rip the back
of his caravan attempting that hill. Why? Any person with a smidgen of common sense would know not to attempt such a maneouvre with a caravan !! We are happy doing what we do with no fancy caravan, erecting our awning how we like taking as long as we like
and we not be checking it is 3.5 inches all round the bottom. I must admit we will watch next week our of curiosity but think it is a farce and has done the CC no favours. We will possibly jump ship next year to another club which seems quite ordinary. 0 -
We are shocked by the much anticipated CARAVANNER OF THE YEAR programme just watched. It was designed to reinforce all the common misconceptions the general public already have about caravanning and to mock caravanners generally. How could the Caravan Club support such a programme? Did they not realise that a "competition" encompassing such a diverse selection of outfits would be impossible and therefore the BBC must have had some ulterior motive?
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Here goes my second attempt at commenting on the atrocious program, my first heartfelt considered response appears to have been binned.
I'll praisee; The program painfully demonstrated that The Chairman and by association all of his subordinates, are completely out of touch with the modern caravanner / motorhomer. How about that this fiasco is used as a catalyst to facilitate the complete and
all encompassing review of how our club is run.I emplore the Caravan Club hierarchy not to bury this travesty in spin, or to try and pass it off as light hearted humour, you may have stood a chance if it had been aired on 1st April; This program is a major own goal, sadly there is further pain to come
when part 2 is aired.This club needs to get itself sharply into the 21st century and to better reflect the membership of today and tomorrow. The alternative is a slow and painful demise of an otherwise relevant and valued institution.
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Eventually recovered enough, from the nausea cause from watching the first 40 minutes, to watch the final 20 minute
So sat down with an emergency bucket, just in case, and prestted resume
What a waste of time, the main thing i learnt is how out of touch the chairman of the club is, and if that is the calibre and mentality of the committee, it explains a lot .
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bucket stayed unused , JUST
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