February CAMC Magazine
I was just browsing through the magazine then after having read two or three letters regarding £100K outfits and some comments for and against turned over a few more pages and there they were, two articles, one on the Land Rover Velour at £70000 and the second a Lunar Delta at not far short of £30000. I`m still not sure which to order first!
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Quite understand your problem Tigi !
I'm never sure if I should have the plain white bread or the expensive seeded wholemeal one
!!I only know me owd gran would have a heart attack if I'd told her i pay 30/-- for a tuppenny loaf.
The same applies now, I get chronic chest pains ** when I see/hear folks with those super-duper vehicles
!!Brian
** I hope it's just my wallet sealing itself, just in case yours truly gets the spending bug !
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If you want to see how the other half live, over winter in Spain's Costas. I thought I had a large expensive motorhome but it is nothing compared to the bugalows on wheels you encounter there and it is not just the odd one or two either!
peedee
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different budgets.....one capital, the other revenue
(like some...cash (asset) rich, income poor...)
either way, one might be seen as far better 'value' than the other...
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I see it as spending an Inheritance or Remortgaging! Mine was the result of 55 years working!
BillC
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Why not just order one of each, for different days?
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An even more 'interesting' letter - Big problem by Ms Vivien Mothersill - where she writes that increasing size of outfits on CL sites has upset us enormously . Well that bit is subjective to her and her valid opinion and she maybe be upset indeed.
But then the rest of the letter loses it's perspective (literally perhaps). She has a two berth van, with car I assume, but these large outfits take up three/four times as much space as ours.
Perhaps if an caravan was double her length and width only then mathematically the area would be four times but as the width of caravans don't really vary that much,moving on.
Then: I cannot begin to imagine how much more electricity they consume
Now I need help here, a larger outfit may use up a little bit more electricity, for example extra strip or side lighting but these will probably 12V and/or Leds anyway, then the rest will be heating? On electricity the max heating is about 2Kw isn't it? Yes I suppose the extra volume may mean there is more to heat but the max using electricity is 2Kw. Would it really use that much more electricity (that she cannot imagine) in heating a large outfit? Is double the length = double the heating costs? Any experts out there?
Larger outfits may have microwave and TV's but again she could have these too, they are not restricted to larger outfits but again how much electricity would they use? Again there could be an electric hob, but she might have that too? Do CLs have 16A? 10A? So again you can't use more than whatever is there?
Also of course the larger outfit may have solar panels too.
What I am saying is the larger outfit does not mean greater electricity usage, isn't that down the the people in it? A smaller outfit could use more than a larger one?.
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thanks
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Having read all the associated letters I reckon they just about reflect the diverse bunch we really are. With all those different and varied, even opposing opinions etc, I reckon folk would protest more, and probably with good reason, if this spread of opinion was deliberately not reflected in the letters published.
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ah, 'fame' eh?
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Don't see how some people buying outfits at over £100.000 should cause so much anxiety on this forum.. ---People buy what they can afford and if they can afford those outfits, good for them. I am happy for them.
After all, the CMC formerly the CC, pride themselves in being the Camping organisation of choice for rich professionals who have a large disposable income. To those well off people, £100.000 or so is small change.
The "Green Eyed Monster" is still alive and kicking it would appear.
K
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wonder if Dr Ellis and Ms Mothersill are reading these pages?
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they could easily be CT 'regulars'....
just looking at the names....if one is Mothersill, its handy that the other is a doctor
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I think it is quite sad that some members spend their holidays growling at outfits they don't like, and even worse writing to a magazine once they are home to tell everyone about their displeasure. I couldn't care less what anyone thinks of my outfit - it suits our needs, and I hope that whatever you have suits your needs, and as long as you are not partying into the early hours and keeping me awake I won't be frowning and muttering as I pass your outfit. Happy 2018 holidays everyone. If you can't be happy stay at home.
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I always thought that the names given along with "Letters to The Editor" were, like the content of the letters, made up in their entirety by desperate people on the Editorial staff.
Yours,
Aghast, of Weston-super-Mud
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so no one noticed one of then was an anagram of cornersteady then?
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