i might just hide every topic apart from camping

[DuplicitousBitch]

seeing as all the other topics are populated by freakados atm

lol i remember moaning about mn last year and someone told me that camping was the ony nice subject left

it is a refuge in school holidays times of trouble

i lurk here more than i post, but am seriously considering doing the same...

on this note am possibly about to buy self-inflating mattresses, not fat airics as can't afford. anyone know of good, cheapo ones?

so where are you going camping - or are you just hiding here with no intention of actually camping at all...?

yes. and camping isn't at all is it?

yes i want to know the same as aitch

and i won't run back to camping because i'm already here.

ivy -- just swot up on cobbs and fat airics and mention them occassionaly and no one will care if you actually camp

Oh no don't all you sane nice posters hide in here.

I can't bear camping, please come back to AIBU and stand up to the freakolas, Braveheart stylee.

Its all nice in here and I used to love camping ..haven't been for years

You do know he got hung, drawn and quartered in the end GetOrf?

getorf i no longer have the stomach for the endless yapyapyap

endlessyapyapyap an excellent name. (only bettered by endlesscuntyapyapyap imo, naturally. )

i don't understand why lying closer to the ground is warmer, thisisyesterday, that's the problem. but i must do something or dd will be sleeping on our airbed again, and that cannot happen.

airbeds are really cold (found this out last time"!!) because the air inside them is cold

so you're losing all your body heat down into the air chamber

a "filled" mattress like a self inflating one won't do that so you should technically stay warmer.

i am mainly worried about the comfort aspect tho! i can't afford fat airics either, but don't want to shell out on cheap(er) ones in case they're crap

We have cheap fat airic imitations, they seem fine, they were about £13 each and have lasted a few years.
But we are Tough and don't really mind sleeping on the floor anyway.

airbeds are fine if you put a good thick rug on top

am considering these

we are limited for space in the car as well, bitch, unf...

I went camping once (when 5 months pregnant).

A wind got up over Hayle bay and blew our tent to bits. We got up at 3 in the morning and slept in the car.

We then watched as all the big 8 man tents started to be blown away, cue people fleeing out of tents in nightclothes.

Never been camping since, funnily enough.

You had the wrong pegs getorf - talk to Slubber or badkitten about their amazing ones - and maybe they'll post a link as I've forgotten what they're called...

getorf, we camped high up on cliffs at mortehoe in devon last year and i seriously thought our tent was going to blow away, it was really, really scary.

some other tents did get a bit um, pulled apart.
our neighbours wasn't helped by ds3 then going and launching himself onto the collapsing side

i'm strictly quechua popup, getorf, those babies can't be blown apart...

Delta pegs Like PerArdua said, Slubber's the one to ask about them. I've been meaning to buy some - will have to do so before first camp. There goes my no-spend pledge. Sigh.

Christ, were we supposed to peg it in?

ThisIs - I used to live about 4 miles from Morthoe on a cliff top, I used to feel that my house would get blown away, let alone a tent.

The wind used to just blow horizontally off the bristol channel.

You had the wrong weather, Getorf, we are fair weather campers and if the forecast is for rain or wind, we just don't go.

We have had several lovely sunny trips to Mortehoe. No rain. or wind.

amen, fennel. if it's not sunny, i'm not going.