Marking Your Pitch

Just returned from a camping trip to the New Forest in a motorhome. When I went out for the day I left my waste water trolley and a metal stool out to mark my pitch. As it was raining I did not want to leave my electric cable (unplugged at both ends of course!) or my camping chairs and table. When I returned to the site whilst my pitch had not been taken, the waste water trolley and stool had! I asked people staying nearby if they had seen anything and 1 person had seen someone walk past the pitch and then wheel the waste water trolley away. The Reception was closed when I returned to the site but when I went down the next morning to see if the trolley and stool had been handed in the staff were mortified by what had happened. As one lady said,  "I've been working here 4 years and not even a stone has been taken before!" and added that they always advise people with motorhomes to leave something to mark their pitch when they go out for the day. In fact she was so upset by what had happened that she arranged for another member of staff to make me a sign too keep so that this would never happen again (see photo) It took the member of staff 2 days to make and was such a lovely gesture that it actually made me cry when I went to say 'thank you'.

Whilst most people follow the rule 'If it's not your's don't touch it' it has made me think twice about what I leave on a pitch when I take the motorhome off site for the day. Hopefully my story will stop the same thing happening to someone else.