• Catching up on lolcats #
• Spreading parts of the tent across chairs in the conservatory, providing essential “camping experience” for the cats. #
• @markpack you didn’t set fire to the cactus, I trust! #
• There is definitely a third cat coming into our house – keep hearing flap when I know our two asleep on bed. #
• Over-indulging in luxuries not readily available when camping: filter coffee, toast, cats, t’internet #
• Doing my bit for the by-election in Henley by following Lib Dem candidate @stephenkearney on twitter. It’s a hard job, but someone’s gotta #
• Sending postcrossing.com card id number GB-38000 #

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• Getting tweets about rain when it’s still lovely and sunny in Scarborough. #
• Seriously gorgeous weather in Scarborough, sunlight gleaming off the sea. #
• I’ve sent you an Orange Photo/Video Message. Go to http://www.orange.co.uk/mms/ Your ID is: pf1c3zhtz Your password is: zo0bo6 valid fo … #
• @willhowells My friend says it starts getting better at episode 4 #
• @willhowells we’d been talking about X Files anyway because the the themetune was playing in our caff. #
• @willhowells with David Duchovny’s then girlfriend? And the vampires? We think that one’s OK. #
• In the back seat of a pedalo on the boating lake of Peasholme Park #
• Watching the skies cloud over. Striking camp 18 hours early, before the rain hits. #
• There. Apart from slightly yellowed grass, no sign we were ever here. #
• Ah. Erm. Right. Car won’t start. AA en route. Hopefully just the battery. #
• @dr_nick charging phones and listening to radio #
• Still waiting for AA to show up. Grrr. #
• Man here, got car started, telling me not to stall for 11 miles! Leaving soon. #

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• Trundling through thousands of cretins in Whitby #
• Watching friend chop onions with the foil cutter of a waiter’s friend on a precarious camping table. #

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• Off to investigate what it is outside tent that sounds like a pterodactyl #
• @willhowells I think @thoroughlygood has already been live-twittering some of the semifinals #
• @meryl_f not clear what it was – could have been a peacock. #
• @thoroughlygood have to try leaving copies of Lady Chatterley’s Lover around and see the reaction. #
• Listening to the adaptation of Dr No – but almost all the pictures in my head are from the film. #
• @jonxyz lollipop lolly lallies lilies ill … #
• Nice to see Captain Scarlet singing the Romanian song. #
• Uk singer seems to have borrowed his costume from Scooch. #
• Celine Dion walks into a bar and the barman says, “Why the long face?” #
• My word, Germany have really moved away from last year’s witty wordy song. #
• Armenia: caligula? #
• Oh boy, this is quite something from the Bosnians. #
• “… and now live to witness a homophobic attack from Belgrade city centre” #
• Hmmm… Liking Israel #
• Finland bring us Spinal Tap. What is it with the fan special effect? #
• Do they have more than one stage or do they have to put all that pryotech in place at the start? #
• Croatia: “nice contest you have here, shame if anything were to happen to it” #
• Wondering if the shouty guy in the white hat has just wondered out of the street. #
• Not sure I’d want to be wearing a dress like that round a campfire. #
• Bit of a wedding theme tonight. #
• @dr_nick no, we’re in a caravan! #
• @dr_nick no, Ireland were knocked out in the semi finals. #
• What is she a student of? Pies? Oh, here comes the fan. #
• Ooh, pirates. Could have done without this weird bridge. #
• @willhowells dunno if it’s Chas and Dave or whether this guy thinks he’s the Artful Dodger #
• Is it Donna from Twin Peaks? #
• No! No! Bad hunks! Back in your box! I’m about to run out of Twitter messages 😦 #
• French in English? Again? #
• You’re letting everyone down. #
• Konstantsos Pantzis?? #
• No! Don’t let that bit of her sing! #
• Robocop? #
• Is he gonna do the whole song on his knees? #
• P won’t tell me who he voted for! #
• So, how many countries, apart from France, will read their results in french? #
• Just wandered around the site and dozens of caravaners are watching eurovision. #
• Who was she? #
• Oh boy, here we go again. #
• Ooh, Andorra did it in French. #
• Thank you Ireland for bumping Poland above us. Bah. #
• Someone take us off the bottom of the table, please! #

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• Saying “Hello Wall!” Shirley-Valentine-style to Hadrian’s wall, which we can see from our window. #
• Hmmm. I am now more bored of romans than I have ever been. #
• @jonxyz @jamesgraham don’t get me wrong, normally I love Romans, but that museum was dull. #
• Crawling up Sutton Bank in 1st gear. Apparently 134 HGVs got stuck here last year. #
• @iaindale how much urban driving do you do? Dogwood.blogspot.com likes his for its fuel efficiency. #
• My word, this campsite doesn’t have midges or rocks. It’s a whole other world in the Club. #
• @dr_nick sounds great! But I’m hardly in any position to criticise new parents for any decision they make! #

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• Striking camp in Glen Coe and plotting a scenic route for Carlisle via Oban, Perth and the Forth bridge. #
• Was a very windy night and the breeze is still up now. Woke to deer basking on opposite bank of river. #
• @dr_nick unsmashed lightbulbs should go to your local tip where they will tell you what to do with them. #
• @dr_nick or they could just go in your residual waste but they can’t go in glass bank. #
• Lovely lunch in Ben Lora cafe, but not making much progress. May have to warn tonight’s b’n’b we’ll be late. #
• Gps #
• Eschewing the Bridge of Awe. #
• *Still* north of the Firth of Forth. Will we make our b&b in time? Tune in for the next gripping instalment… #
• @dr_nick our eccentric route, Oban, Perth, Edinburgh, Carlile – we’ve gone coast to coast twice on A roads! #
• Limited food options in Northunberland at this time of night, so trying to eat takeaway curry off our laps off a country road. #
• Failing to get wifi to work – and reminding self 10 internet free days is no real hardship. #

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• Watching the tipi being dismantled before we go on a road trip up to Loch Ness. #
• In Fort Augustus looking at the start of Loch Ness and maybe having a sunny evening drive up to Governess. I mean Inverness. #
• Just clocked up 500 miles. Trust us to go on driving hol as fuel prices hit record high. #
• Wee bite to eat in Inverness. Struggling not to put on mock Scottish accent when talking to people. #

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• At the Scottish National Trust Glen Coe visitors centre, using my long lens to take photos of tits. #
• Kicked out of the Glen Coe visitor centre because of a power cut that made all the alarms sound. #
• P not terribly chuffed with his role in my photo entitled “Old Fart in the Old Fort, Fort William” #

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• Becoming an uncle in the night – happy birthday Noah! #
• Writing a double dactyl visitor book entry before getting back on the road. #
• Having lunch on the banks of loch Lomand and cooing at photos of my nephew. #
• @rfenwick last night, overheard organist practicing Stainer’s "I saw the Lord" and now have it on the brain. #
• Campsite bril – surrounded by mountains, v quiet, idyllic. Kenny’s tipi is brilliant! #

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• Setting off. Scotland is up, right? #
• Ringing for evensong at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow. #

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