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A glass of wine sat around the campfire...

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SeaShellsAndTheInlawInvasion · 30/06/2011 14:49

so I am fed up with the rest of MN (this whole mamazon shite really is the ,last straw), so I am assuming that if any of you are trolling you are showing extraordinary persistence by delving into the thrills of iceytec and are worth chatting to.

So anyway, hi, I am SeaShells, I have 2 dc and have been camping and trapsing through the Great Outdoors all my life. I hang out here as my love of camping is more a love of the countryside and life, and you lot have a similar outlook.

< admires well made fire and tastefully arranged logs with throws>

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scaryt · 04/07/2011 21:05

Agree notwaving this is a lovely thread.

Love the idea of sending conferencing husband off to find good french campsites. Eminently sensible I'd've thought.

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SeaShellsAndTheInlawInvasion · 04/07/2011 21:06

Hahahha sodding iPad will be the death of good English!
Skip=sleep
Shattered=shattered
There should have been spaces in-between words

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glitterkitty · 04/07/2011 21:08

I remember my dad used to have to write letters to campsites abroad to book us in for the summer holidays. Always did 5 weeks across europe with dad driving grimly through the first night to get us to Germany. France was scorned as 'flat & boring' we wanted MOUNTAINS!

One year we went to Tunisia & Libya across desert in a land rover. This was before tourism. We would wake in 90 degree heat to find strange men squatting outside our tent- who would insist on showing us to the whole village, complete with feast (as a v picky & self conscious 11yr old this was hell).

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SeaShellsAndTheInlawInvasion · 04/07/2011 21:08

Oh, and public sector isn't a swear word hear either, dh has been on the picket line twice this year already and only hasn't been marching as isn't allowed due to small baby at home and is under the thumb

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notwavingjustironing · 04/07/2011 21:09

Feels the need to correct "skip" but can't actually be arsed because this is "Camping and That" and there are no rucks (apart from me putting the tent up a bit skew whiff Grin

( or was that a ruse to get us all back to the dark side Seashells .....) Wink

glitterkitty · 04/07/2011 21:10
glitterkitty · 04/07/2011 21:11

public sector here for me and DP too-

We marched on 30th. Hard for everyone though at the moment.

notwavingjustironing · 04/07/2011 21:12

Oh bugger you beat me to it

lostinwales · 04/07/2011 21:13

Slubber, quick over here, in a bid so spend my last ever pay packet before it comes I'm going to buy some of those lovely sandals, we'll be in the Alps for a bit so it would be stupid not to. What size do you take and how do they fit big/small/wide etc?

notwavingjustironing · 04/07/2011 21:16

Lost, lovely, don't be sucked in by the sandals- Slubber didn't know what she was doing , she's easily led etc etc.....

scaryt · 04/07/2011 21:19

Oh lost, that's awful. Hope your summer is full of lovely camping adventures.

lostinwales · 04/07/2011 21:20

Oh but they look comfy and sensible, I want to march around the mountains and stride through streams without looking like a wet hen!

scaryt · 04/07/2011 21:21

glitter - those holidays sound incredible.

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SeaShellsAndTheInlawInvasion · 04/07/2011 21:22

Lol Notwaving, I am an easy target for pedants. I'm well educated, but can't type for toffee and the predictive text on this thing really mucks it up. If I had wit I'd rival the fishy one Wink

Anyhoo, sandals need trying on in shops (then buying cheap on Internet) because the straps can rub etc depending on feet shape. Merrell are very good, as are tevo, but ££!

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glitterkitty · 04/07/2011 21:26

Nooooo lost! Not the sandals... (not unless you are going to wear with diamond patterned socks and post a picture)

notwavingjustironing · 04/07/2011 21:27

Seashells I am genuinely not pedanting you - let's talk about Lost's sandals and how we can help her through this ......Grin

scaryt · 04/07/2011 21:28

I love the look of keens, really want a whisper pair, they felt like air on my feet in the shop. Need to take a run at it before buying them (chronically bad at buying myself shoes/clothes at full price).

Slubberdegullion · 04/07/2011 21:29

Oh lost mate, that sucks about the job, but liking your camping summer silver lining.

They are tevas and the chap in Ellis brigham said you needed to go up by half a UK size to get the right fit, so mine are 8.5s (yes I am big of foot). They are quite narrow fitting, for those with wider feet he recommended Keanes.
PERFECT for mountain gambols.

Shurrup notwaving

notwavingjustironing · 04/07/2011 21:30

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

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SeaShellsAndTheInlawInvasion · 04/07/2011 21:31

I think it's got to be fugly practical sandals OR fugly practical socks.

Both together is just too 1970s Grin

Plus, do the socks not get wet? I've never walked a welsh mountain without encountering a bog!

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SeaShellsAndTheInlawInvasion · 04/07/2011 21:34

Lost-I hope things get better for you. The job Market sucks ATM, I've been really lucky to find one to start at the end of my mat leave-I thought it would be impossible. I hope something turns up.

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Grockle · 04/07/2011 21:34

I used to walk miles in my Tevas (without socks Wink) - I loved them. I have no sensible walking sandals anymore. I suspect people would snigger if I marched up a mountain in my sparkly flipflops.

lostinwales · 04/07/2011 21:34

Glitter, I love the sound of your hoidays, I think I must be turning into your dad.

I can't try sandals on in shops as we do not have any, it's the downside of living in camping heavan! Nearest ones are about an hour away and it's end of term sports day/presentation/show maddness round here. I NEED sensible shoes that aren't my work DM's.

Thanks for the sympathy re job everyone but do not fret, they let me go at Christmas too which was a huge PITA but again handy for the holidays. They try and get by with as few staff as possible but the minute someone gets sick/pregnanat they'll have to call me up and be nice all over again to get me back. It goes in cycles, twice in my career I have been able to phone an area I fancied working in and offer my services and get snapped up immediately and twice I've not been able to find work for love nor money, meh and Wine

lostinwales · 04/07/2011 21:38

Pregnanat - only happens if you work in an x-ray department, very similar to being pregnant but with extra radiation.

I might get diamond pattern socks, you wait....

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 04/07/2011 21:39

Oooh, much busy chatter, I need to catch up.

Slubber, I spent some time fondling your sandals in Go Outdoors yesterday, sadly dp would murder me, so I refrained, maybe next year when my Merrells give up the ghost.

Has anyone refilled gas recently? £19.99 for a 907 yesterday, though did have 15% off everything, hence me wandering round overheated camping superstore with two bored fractious children, who both demanded (and got) a spork and have eaten every meal since with it.

Despite children and dp having had 'NOTHING NEAR THE SODDING SIDES OF THE TENT' drilled into them for years, dp left an open bottle of red on top of the kitchen unit, right against the side of the tent last friday night, one big gust of wind and it fell into an as yet unpacked bag Angry Did not go down well......