Spring is taking its time this year. Last weekend, 24 hours before I was due to meet the Chairman of this year’s National Feast of Lanterns (NFOL) at the Prescott Bike Festival, I opened the curtains to find it was snowing. Not ideal.

It’s exactly two years this week since my canine companion Shakey enjoyed his first camping trip. He came with me to the annual Outwell Owners Club season-opener meet at Low Farm, a Listed Site in Lincolnshire, and had a wonderful...