The night the metro tried to kill us

After a day at the beach, a storm was coming in, just like Mike predicted.
Not wanted to sit on a cliff with a gallon of scrumpy each from the local cider farm. We make Josh drive us into swanage .
Now this took a LOT of talking into, as no one likes to stay sober camping, especially Josh.

On our return, something was missing. Something important.
Something tent shaped!

When we put up the tent, tent pegs were in short supply, so we adopted a 'Im al-right Ron' method of tent erections.
This means grabbing all the pegs and securing the tent around your own air bed while everyone else was in the shower, so any big draughty holes was someone else's problem.
Unfortunately Josh got to the pegs first.

So with the old scout tent only being pegged to the ground in one corner, a child blowing bubbles could flatten it.
The storm had no problem.

Not wanted to let a little thing like no shelter ruin a holiday, we sized up the metro...
Josh and Mike called shotgun leaving me, big Ben, and Neil the back seat.
As you can imagine, big Ben was no small lad.

Putting our body boards under the car, we got in our new holiday villa and tried to settle.
With a gallon a scrumpy in each of our belly's, sleep came quick.

I awoke to bright sunlight and a strangely painful neck,
The pain was because every time my head fell onto big Ben, he pushed my head into Neil, and Neil was doing the same, using my head as a unconscious tennis ball.

Opening a steamed up window outside looked different, like its moved Backwards. And someone put a tent up touching the car in the middle of the night.
Josh parked the metro outside the shower block on a grass bank.
during the storm the car decided to relocate itself, 20 foot down the bank.
Our surf boards were all over the camp site, apart from one.
An old £5 kids surf board wedged itself into the underside of the car and stopped us from heading down the cliff!

We all still own our life to that surf board.

To rub salt in a big more, at that point, a bunch of local gippo kids came over and started to rob our tent.