The Blob

It sounds like you've got your very own residential airbags Annie! Your son in law could have a good point though! Get a couple more and charge campers for overnight stays! Bargain!

Haha! Have you checked there are no campers still in it? I have just come here from leaving a comment on the Labour thread......think you will appreciate it, talk about apt!
Anyway, somebody will be upset at losing their dome thing, I wonder how far it had blown?
I thought this thread was going to be about the film ( The Blob ) my late Mother was scared by this film at the cinema years ago, in the fifties I think.

Good grief, didn't think of looking inside

Did you Roses? I thought the blob title was referring to one of those drinks that Yates Wine Lodges sold in the 1970s! she said revealing a misspent youth.

It was the film The Blob, terrified me

Wasn't Paul Newman in that?

I thought you were going to say that someone was sleeping in your garden
It reminds me of a time when we went camping and the tent blew away across the field ..... it's a long story but at least the dog got out of there first!

Was it Steve McQueen? More terrifying than Paul Newman ever could be

That sounds quite surreal ab. Like The Prisoner ????

Yes, didn't something follow him around Port Meirion?
We stayed there once and The Prisoner was played on a loop on the tv in our room

You are right, Jalima, Steve McQueen. Why do I always confuse the two of them? They are nothing alike.

Portmeirion is lovely isn't it Jalima ? They still have a day every year (August, i think) when visitors turn up wearing those black blazers trimmed with white edges. And they also have the huge penny farthings bikes and the big plastic balls that were used to keep the Prisoner in check.

It's years since we went, it was a surprise for my birthday one year - DH surpassed himself!

That made me smile, annie. Tents have a mind of their own. The last time we used our trailer tent complete with huge awning was on a Welsh cliff top. It blew, it stormed, it blew some more. I slept in the car while Mr C and our eldest held the thing down. We sold it very soon after. Love Portmeirion, it's a magical place I think, haven't been for years, now I am reminded it's going on the 'places I want to return to' list. Hope 'the blob' behaves Itself tonight annie. Guess you could keep it and see if anyone advertises a reward for its return?

I don't live too far from there Jalima , about 1 hour and so I go on a "girls weekend" a couple of times a year. Pure bliss!

If I remember rightly the Blob was taken and frozen in the Arctic. May I remind you about global warming!!! Dan da daaa!

If your Blob is one of those easy pop up things. Catching it and folding it back up may be a real challenge! My DGS has pop up goal which has to stay up in the garage as none of the family has been able to get it back in the bag!

Made me chuckle.
If it was me I think I'd weigh it down, stick a sign in my front window saying you have it (ask callers for colour etc. so you know it's theirs) and give it a few more days and then dispose of it.

Yes, have a look inside for identification, as someone suggested.
In our camping days we once had a dome tent. We always camped on a hill. One windy morning we had got up to wash etc in the stream below, and the tent was caught by a gust of wind, ripped out the pegs, and blew away.
We found it eventually.

Haven't been able to look inside, we have had gales since Wednesday night, I can just see the front page of our local paper, pensioner run over in her garden by a tent ?

Update

Looked inside the tent, no body but I now have a paddling pool ?

I wonder if, somewhere, some hapless campers woke up sans tent?

But who would want a paddling pool in February ?

I can send you a couple of ducks which escaped from market gardens close to my house,set yourself up in the egg laying business to supply your campers.

Thank you Glammananna , I love ducks , geese are a different matter, nasty creatures and not funny when they chase you

That's why the romans had them as sentinels