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[jontippins]

Why oh why were so many people washing their muddy wellies under the taps. Surely they were just as muddy after a few minutes walking and you were holding up people who just wanted to wash their hands after using the loo??  

As for washing your hair at the sinks when there are large queues, come on, be more considerate & take a bucket.  Rant over

[amfy]

Come the revelution the wellie washers will be first up against the wall.

[Lilmiz]

My other half and i were just as curious about that, do they not realise they are just going to get muddy again?!  I did sit down and try to get the great big lumps of mud off my boots on occasion as it felt like i was walking around with kilo weights around my legs but washing them down at the taps, mentalness!!!

[shiff]

I could not see the logic (or decency) in why they bothered either

[purplebridget]

I have to admit when my friend suggested washing our wellies off I looked at her like she'd totally lost the plot   but it actually was a very good idea before going back to the awning...we avoided the mud as best we could and it saved a lot of mess back at base camp...our feet felt a lot lighter too  

[Messi30]

I had a tent peg in my pocket that I used to scrape the huge lumps off, using the taps was a waste of water and people's (behind in queue) time.

[ianianian]

Agreed stupid and very wasteful.

[rachmac]

a. it makes the mud rivers worse, which will eventually lead to the sticky stage again
b. those big taps (or at least the one where I camped) gave c. 5 litres of water per 1 press!

Wooden forks/knives and abandoned sack trucks made good scraping devices!

Edit My b ) ended up as emoticon

Edited by rachmac, 30 June 2011 - 06:26 PM.

[pie_and_a_pint]

My wellies had a not-very-nice flowery pattern on them. I quite glad when they go covered in mud tbh...

Using good drinking water to wash wellies is a ridiculously wasteful activity. Perhaps the hedge-pissers and the welly-washers could meet up somewhere mutually convenient...  

[geebus]

If there's loads of gued-on mud, it will lighten them for a while at least.  Not being one for queuing, I achieved similar temporary lightening by walking through some more watery mud, which seemed to work well enough.

I did wash the top of my army boots in the sink in the CV field a bit so that the inside top of my trousers wouldn't get too muddy - but I did let other people use it when I turned up and also cleaned the muck out of the plug hole.

[tinktink]

pie_and_a_pint, on 30 June 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

My wellies had a not-very-nice flowery pattern on them. I quite glad when they go covered in mud tbh...

Using good drinking water to wash wellies is a ridiculously wasteful activity. Perhaps the hedge-pissers and the welly-washers could meet up somewhere mutually convenient...  

I hate the hedge pissers sooooo much, to be fair 20% of them were girls  

[LusciousLucy]

I removed the heavy mud off with a peg when I was at camp. I knew the mud would be back on as soon as headed into mud but it was nice not to walk with 5 added kilos to each leg/foot for a short while.

[sisterofmercy]

Never understood the logic in that. Surely it makes more sense to wait until it's hard and then scrape it off instead? Making it wet just makes it more difficult.

[verrymerry]

Saw lots of parents getting their kids to wash their wellies in family camping, my friend overheard a little girl saying "mummy can we wash out wellies" and the mum said no, "but whyyyyyy?" so the mum says "it wastes water".  My friends piped up "Well done!" loud enough for the welly washers to hear  

On the hair washing thing I did mine at the tap, but I move over to let other people use it while I'm shampooing, I reckon it would take me longer to fill a bucket than to quickly rince my hair :-)

[mattrgee]

I thought the girls washing their hair under the taps were bad, but this is another level.

[rachmac]

I did chuckle to myself when I saw a girl with long hair washing her hair under the tap and the ends of the "clean" hair were in the mud

[Hotfoxy]

In the kidzfield they had a welly wash which we used once because we didnt want to walk the mud into the tents.. also made our feet feel loads lighter!