I know I posted this somewhere in the 'glass of wine' thread, but as I'm going tomorrow I'm now having a panic that I have forgotten something in my attempts to be lightweight/not bury DD on the back seat with extraneous items.
Please could you lovely lot run your eye over it and make sure I've thought of everything/is there stuff here I don't need?
Would not take food to a festival normally but last year DD would not eat anything but sausage in a bun for 5 days, so am packing cereal/breakfast/sarnies ingredients.
Currently lined up on the dining table are:
Tent (with pegs, mallet, peg-extractor in bag)
Folding table
Folding cupboard
sleeping bags
SIMs
pillows
washing up bowl containing cereal, hot choc, teabags, loaf, insulated butterdish, eggs & biscuits/cake/pringles supplies
Collapsible crate (for shoes once we get there) containing:
- Trangia (itself containing 2 pans, frypan & teeny tiny kettle)
- Trangia fuel bottle
- cutlery roll
- plates, bowls, mugs, glasses
- cooking utensils
- coffee pot & coffee
- collapsible water carrier
- washing up liquid, bin bags, scourer
- fire blanket
Pop up bin
2 mini boxes containing:
- earplugs
- eyemask (I can't sleep without either)
- mini torch
- first aid kit/plasters/bite cream
coolbox containing winebag, sausages, bacon, milk, cheese, cuke, tomatoes, yogurts & ham
windbreak
washbag, wipes, dry shampoo
cushions stuffed with clothing & 1 microtowel (DH likes to rough it en festival and DD hates showering, so it's only me that'll be braving the showers!)
lanterns x 3
solar fairy lights (and the tealight chandelier that I've had for ages) :)
flag & flagpole (because we're not going to be the only bell tent there, I guarantee it...)
small folding box with DD's stuff (colouring, cuddlies etc)
rucksack with footwear, little water bottles & DD's ear protectors in it
picnic blanket
lidded bucket with traveljohns inside for emergency night time weeing
tickets, money....:)
garden cart to lug it from car to campsite
Now... I haven't put chairs on the list because I am in 2 minds as to what to do. We have trad. cheapo camping chairs, moonchairs and also some things called 'festival chairs' which i bought from Tesco as last year our aged backs began hurting during prolonged periods of sitting watching various cultural extravaganza. The moonchairs are out because of size, but do you think I should take the festival chairs and the normal chairs? The festival chairs are v. low down on the ground, so prob not good for sitting around drinking wine at night...
Also, I was thinking, if we have room, of taking the pop-up gazebo along simply to create some space in front/next to the tent and parking the table/cooking stuff in there. My sister & family are also coming with their humungous tunnel tent, so the idea was to create a little enclave that hopefully won't end up with some bugger parking his tent in the middle of it overnight... Or is this a rubbish idea/doomed to failure?
And if you made it to the end of that, have a meths on me!
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