Tropico-del-Thurcroft

*Contains adult themes and material which some people may find offensive*

Date: Friday 22nd November 2019

Location: Thurcroft, Rotherham

Specifically: Bridge View Campsite

At a guess I’d say that Rotherham in South Yorkshire is not everyone’s top destination of choice when it comes to choosing a family holiday. In terms of popularity it's about one notch above hanging out at the local undertakers. Although of course, when you need to get your head down, you probably aren’t going to be too choosy about where you sleep.

But today, as I was being considerative of somewhere to stay I came across a place at Thurcroft about 5 minutes from my friends Stuart & Bronwyn or rather Stuart found the place and I went to look at it.

No question - The reviews on Google where amazing, full of praise for the couple who run the site; There was one negative review but then there’s always one - usually a miserable bastard who wouldn’t know his own arsehole if it were tied round his neck in a sack race.

The couple who run the site are, as the reviews say, lovely and cannot do enough for you. Within about 10 minutes of my arrival they ensured I was parked safely, hooked up my ehu filled my tank with drinking water, gave me a rubber mat to keep my feet dry, took my rubbish to the tip and offered to fetch my shopping!

One of the things I love about Northerners is there honesty - don’t matter whether what they say works in their favour or against they say it anyway. Why settle for shooting yourself in the foot when you can blow both your legs off with a field cannon?

To begin with there are always stories and anecdotes...

”Aye we get all‘sooats in ‘ere tha noes. Once ‘ad a group ‘o teenagers in - saw ‘em when I got oo-am. I though tae me’sen, look their dancin round’t water pipe. But then a realised they were dancin naked! Not a stitch on!! Well ‘t missus came out ‘n I said ooh get back in ’ouse Maureen thi all naked!” Then there’s this (after telling him about my making/customising steampunk accessories).

”o aye, ‘ad a feller like thee a bit back, ’ad ’is air like red indian tha knows (“a Mohican” I ventured” aye that were it“) ’n ’ee were wearin a dress. Used to mek stuff are’tn wood, showed kids ow to mek necklaces outa flowers! Reet nice feller ‘ee were anall“ (Thats ‘an-all’ not the ... Ier other thing)

Look at this for service Asked where to put rubbish

“aye gee it ‘ere lad we just gooin art we’ll drop it of at tip for thee”

Where is the ehu?

”Ah chuck us thi cable ‘al plug it in ‘f thi“

Water?

”As tha gorra nose pipe?” (well I’ve got a hose pipe!)

Aye gee it ‘ere I’ll fill it up ‘f thi”

What time do I have to leave the site tomorrow?

”O tha’ll be reet lad theres no rush, tha can go when tha likes. I mean tha wants a drink ‘n summat ‘t eight foor tha guz dunt tha? Wi not one of these that rush thi art ‘n door at ten-o-clock“

You said there was a river?

”ays that’s reet but tha’ll need thi wellies cos it’s reight muddy. Thuz a nice shed darn theer ‘n all, great ‘f bird watching ‘n that but mind thi sen cos

it’s fallin’ darn”

Amazibg!! I don’t care what part of the world this site is in - I have NEVER come across service like this. The reviewers are correct - the manners of this couple are impeccable and they just can’t do enough for you!

Fascinating as this is, I don’t feel very fascinating at the moment - in fact I feel crap. Had the sniffles this morning which I put down to the cold weather but it seems to be persisting, on top of which my chest feels wheezy. Time to curl up and suck thumb!

How odd, I was just wondering where the interest in my blog has gone - seems like the more I try to encourage people to sign up to the website the less interest there is. I then put upload a small posting about not feeling well and immediately get lots of messages. Where am I going wrong?

ADDRESS

Bridge View Campsite

Laughton Common Road

Thurcroft

Rotherham

S66 9BN

Tel: 07970 489076

REVIEWS

“The staff are lovely, so polite and gave us our space”

“Great site with excellent hosts“

“Absolutely brilliant site, the owners are lovely, would do anything for us“

FACILITIES

Toilet’s, Chemical waste disposal, grey water disposal, drinking water, ehu, showers (in progress).