As overseas holidays are becoming less common, and holiday park staycations more popular, the desire to send postcards to family and friends is lessening.
All is not lost though, as the ease of sending ecards could revive peoples penchant for passing on ‘wish you were here’ messages. Greetings of the electronic variety are not only cheaper than a paper postcard, but they are kinder to the environment too.
Forget Las Vegas wedding venues for an unusual way to tie the knot, it is sooo passé!
You can even ditch glorious marquees in the gardens of a country house by swapping one type of canvas for another. As far as weird wedding venues go, here at BHP HQ we reckon a camp site has to be the only option to consider. Although, I suppose, we would say that!
It was only after my last break at the caravan park that I realised how much baby names have changed since I was a boy.
At school, it was almost guaranteed that in any class there would be a Jack, John or Matthew. Everyone knew a James or a David, and everyone had dated a Sarah or Lisa by the time we’d reached sixth form.
Walking through the caravan park this year however really brought to my attention the seismic shift in what people nowadays choose to name their offspring.
Camping in the great outdoors, well, maybe a holiday park, meant that as children we got to learn about nature; but with more families than ever jetting off to sunnier climes, educational toys are playing an increasingly important role in the lives of young children.
Christmas is fast approaching, and the holiday camps are emptying, which means that it is a perfect time to create some unusual photo books.
There are quite a few artists and photographers that document the empty spaces left behind after people depart, resulting in eerily empty art works that leave the viewer feeling uneasy.
This Christmas take inspiration from Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear Crew and host some corporate events at caravan sites. There are so many reasons this could be a great alternative to getting sloshed on cheap wine next to the printer.
There’s nothing that’s guaranteed to cause acute embarrassment more than asking to borrow money, but when it comes in the form of a guarantor loan, things are a little bit different.
With a loan like this, you secure a loan from a money-lending firm as you would with a normal loan, only you have a friend or loved one behind you to step in to make the repayments should you be unable to do so.
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Holiday parks are a great place to experience the great outdoors in some sort of comfort, but what I don’t understand is why on earth personal osteopath services aren’t available.
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Essex is known for many things, white stilettos, Ford Fiestas with fluffy dice and good old seaside holiday parks in delightful places such as Jaywick. However it is web design Essex is becoming better known for rather than stereotypical associations that have been the butt of many stand-up jokes in the past. The close proximity to London, Cambridge, Herts, Cambs and Suffolk places designers in prime position to corner the internet advertising market, a growing phenomenon in the area. This is where some real genius could come in, strategically speaking. If this growing graphic workforce embraces increasing improvements in laptop technology, it could be the case that Essex based web designers will be able to return to the YUPPIE life left behind in the 1980s. Simply, pop along to the local holiday park in the most appropriate Ford du jour, and weave web based wonders on a laptop hacked into a Wi-Fi hot spot. Pass me a Pina Colada I say! Jaywick here I come!
The iconic MINI Cooper is usually associated with Michael Caine and the legendary film The Italian Job, which demonstrated the almost weightless agility of the vehicle; not a Devon holiday park disaster with Herby-esque events. A man and his wife were whiling away some time in their tent at a camp site in East Devon when a MINI came careering down the hill, over their tent and ended up in a toilet block! The couple must have thanked their lucky stars that it was the teeniest of vehicles that rudely intruded a brief kip in their holiday abode. Imagine if it had been a Hummer! The woman was said to be in shock after the event, and the man unfortunately suffered a couple of fractured ribs. Personally, if I had to chose any vehicle to get run over by that wasn’t made by Matchbox or Hotwheels, it would be the MINI.
