Beasties about

[canon fodder]

I thought  you all might like to know that having finally got to work removing my rather spectacular gunnels that so many of you admired at Ripon, that for once Bernard was right and some fairly large grub like things had been tunneling their way through my gunnels. They had long since left but if does seem a fairly drastic way of weight reduction.
Also on the subject of beasties, when I struck my tent at tummel week on lifting my air bed I found that a cheeky vole had eaten a couple of holes in the ground sheet. Just as well the air bed was not to its taste or me and my crew could have found our selves being let down in the middle of the night.