I want to take my duvet camping!

[PavlovtheCat]

I love my bed. I love lying in my lovely SoulPad, on our lovely comfy air mattress that does not bounce around as you move, snuggling in my pillow under my lovely warm, toasty duvet. I love snuggling next to my DH, or if he is up making an early breakfast with the kids, lying there listening to the sounds of the wind against the canvas, and the kids outside, maybe reading my book. Under my duvet. Warm. I also like being able to snuggle in the middle of the night with my ds aged 8 months, feeding him and going back to sleep all wrapped up together. I love the look of the bed all made up in the morning and looking so inviting at bedtime.

I do not miss waking up in a plastic bag, in a plastic tent, sweating even though I am cold.

We have limited space for our camping trip. DH has said I cannot take our duvet. He is taking a sleeping bag and grugdingly suggested I take the single duvet, but reluctant and keeps going on and on and on about how I should try the sleeping bag.

But even if I take the single, it will not be the same, it won't be tucked in around the air mattress keeping the warmth in, DH and I won't be able to snuggle as he will be wrapped in a binbag.

Am i being so unreasonable to want to find room somehow for it? Because I will be able to, but DH has Put His Foot Down.

We always take our duvets too. Vacuum packing them and the pillows shrinks them down to virtually nothing!

I say take the duvet and leave grump dh at home. Then you'll have loads of room......

Hey, calm down calm down! I take a wooden bamboo windchime and normally I don't camp near anyone. We camp in remote spots and it hangs inside, so that in the day, when we open the soulpad up, it gently moves.

mary I have bunting

I love the idea of vacuum packing. DH said apparantly he told me this already, but he did not. He also rightly said that we won't be able to vacuum pack it on way home.

We can put it on the floor of the boot, but already have 3 throws there .

It is Kingsize.

northernlurker DH just said, when I reminded him of our bunting after reading the post about it, he said 'we are NOT taking the bunting. If you take the bunting, i am staying at home' result! That gets me the duvet.

God, why bother camping? Just hire a caravan and be done with it.

Don't tell your DH I told you but did you know most feather duvets roll up smaller than a sleeping bag!!!

expat well there is a reason, we are going next week, summer holidays, and £40 vs £400 in my last week of maternity leave!

Pav, I couldn't do it. No way.

We camped 3 nights at a festival last year. Hot sunny days but two of the nights were absolutelynfreezing - the coldest I've ever camped in. We were so thankful we made the effort to take the big feather duvet and sheet. Once we got the airbed up (pump didn't fit ) we could all sunggle down together, wearing hats too & kept lovely & cosy & slept well. DD 20 months snuggling in the middle. Lovely.
Take it if you can. have fun

Oh you could. You could come camping with us and you would love it.

You could come Glamping with us in our normal location where we rent a tent out, saves all the hassle, and there is a camp kitchen and table to eat from with proper wooden benches and a fire pit, we play cricket with all the kids, and drink hot chocolate with marshmallow cooked over the fire, chocolate bananas, go on woodland walks. And in my soulpad when it rains it sounds beautiful not horrendous, and there are no cars, there is no street lights, it is peaceful and calm until dd has a night terror at 4am and wakes the whole vilage up.

You would love it really.

The most important things I think, i have decided are Duvet and Socks. I can work around the rest.

Put the duvet folded up on the back seat, kids and their car sets on top of the duvet. Its how I always used to travel to holiday as a kid in the days before sleeping bags used to pack down into little bags. Mum and dad had big foldable sleeping bags that we had to sit on all the way to Wales.

stripey i did consider that, putting it on the seat underneath the kids seats, is that safe though? DS is in a rearfacing infant seat, DD is in a booster with a back on it, seats are leather. Can we do that? I might give it a try!

The glamping sounds allright.

Except that shared shower thang.

oh, no, sally, I couldn't be doing with that at this point in my life with two little girls in tow.

nope.

it was okay in France in the mid-80s when i was baked out of my mind (gah, i was a real stoner back in the day ).

but not now.

We put our duvets (ours and the kids - they have sleeping bags too) in the boot before everything else packed. They squash down to virtually nothing. We also bring our old mattress saver for our air bed, and blankets to put under the kids air beds.

We also bring an old door mat to put at the entrance to the tent to catch wet/mud etc. And I've won dh round to the merits of crocs for camping (we all bought them last year, he's just bought his).

Ooh, and I've just bought a little battery operated paper lantern thingy to hang up outside the tent.

I lurve camping (but I hate being cold)!

btw, if I've understood it right and you're bfing, then that's defo special circs as far as I'm concerned. We only started going camping just before I had ds3 and trying to manoeuvre a baby into a sleeping bag in the pitch black on a wobbly air bed is just NOT going to work. There is a pretty good chance that before you've got the baby slotted down the duvet and in place, everyone in a 20yard radius will be awake. You'll kind of not care and hate your dh at the same time!

bosch oh yes, DH has agreed that we do need a door mat though doesn't want to get the floor muddy but not bothered about me getting cold! And yes I am bf'ing, and agree with the special circs thing!

Expat communal showers? you sure you didn't end up in WOMAD as well, when out of your tree?!! I must confess, if I am only camping for a couple of nights, I don't always bother with a shower. Sometimes, I don't even change my clothes (except knickers, always clean knickers). This time I am taking 3 tops, 1 jumper, 1 pair jeans (+wearing one pair) and one pair of shorts, 2 pairs of socks, 5 pairs of knickers, the bra I am wearing, waterproof trousers/jacket, slouch pants and longsleeved t-shirt for bed. AND MY DUVET. I it unanimous. The ladies have Spoken. I think DH knows it too.

bosch also just read your last post about baby waking everyone up, we have been camping twice this year, but both times we glamped (rented a tipi and then a bell tent) so could take the duvet, pillows, all my swathes etc, and funnily enough DS is actually a mellow quiet baby even when he wakes up in the night, and especially now he has lost his voice due to a cold! It is DD who wakes everyone up having a night terror and shouting 'NO NO NO! GET OFF ME, GET OOOOOOOOOF MEEEEEEEE' as I try to calm her/wake her/stop her screaming at 4am!