While we're asking for advice, how about how do I persuade my lady that it would be loadsa fun to go off on the bikes and pitch up a tent somewhere and it ain't going to rain? She's great with the first bit just can't get her past the B&B!
Explain to her how happy it would make you if she shared this little adventure with you
Any good loving wife that likes to keep her hubby happy will see the error of her ways and agree to your request
If she still says no you're stuffed mate
I personally like camping, I love to sleep in a confined space with my guinness drinking hubby snoring and farting all night, the gentle background hum of all the other snoring people on the site, having no space to store things, cook things, traipsing down fields in the pitch black to use the bathroom, then a bloody queue when you get there, the lack of privacy, everything you own being wet when it rains, and couple that with the braying donkeys, singing from other campers and early morning quad bike practise on the meet at Andy's place it's fun fun fun all the way
On the other hand it was BLOODY good fun, great company, meeting new people and non stop laughter... Yep I do love camping