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A glass of wine sat around the campfire...

951 replies

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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notwavingjustironing · 14/07/2011 22:14

Adding one of Camping's threads as a discussion of the day seems a bit like sending Baldrick on a reconnaissance mission. It draws unnecessary attention to our presence, yet serves no discernible purpose.

MisSalLaneous · 14/07/2011 22:18

Nah, not really Slubber, but thanks for asking. :) Do really need an axe though. A small one, but still. The stove needs some thinner pieces of wood, as we can start a fire easily with kindling etc, but then the bigger logs don't always burn strongly enough before it's gone, so I need something in between for that first half an hour. Not so much an issue whilst we're still using it outside as I can just open it and add more kindling, but I want to make sure I can have a quick, clean, strong fire before I will consider moving it inside for the winter.

lostinwales · 14/07/2011 22:23

Evening everyone, I have my extra warm death socks on and a warming hot chocolate as I spent the evening swimming 1.5 miles down the river. Irrelevant to the thread but DH is out and I wanted to boast to someone Blush

If anyone remembers my friend who bought the field we went up for the first time today, although as we are packed for camping in France and didn't want to disturb the perfectly packed car we aren't camping tonight. It's an ace field though, there's a path at the bottom down a small cliff and a group of us climbed down and emerged around a tree branch onto the beach much to the shock of the people sitting on the other side.

Funtime we have just been to the Urdd National Eisteddfordd in Swansea. It was really lovely and not being much of a Welsh speaker didn't stop me having a good time, although the DS's helped translate. You'll have a great time.

MisSalLaneous · 14/07/2011 22:31

Lost, that sounds heavenly. (Very!) impressed on your swimming!

notwavingjustironing · 14/07/2011 22:38

Lost I am very impressed with the free swimming!

I would be looking for hot choc with Baileys Grin

lostinwales · 14/07/2011 22:46

Oooh, free swimming makes it sound proper hardcore! I am built like a seal so very much at home in water, walking that distance would leave me in back/knee pain but put me in the water and I'm off, helpfully my layers of blubber also mean I don't need a wetsuit.

Got my confirmation for our first two nights of camping in France through, municipal camp sites look amazing, but then I'm used to a field with no facilities so I'm a cheap date. Does anyone have any helpful hints for camping when it's very warm, normally being in Wales means I haven't had to deal with this problem yet! Sadly when DH and I get excited about being abroad one of the main things we discuss is going to Decathlon, we are sad yet probably made for each other!

Notwaving, you are truly a a great philosopher.

SalomeD · 14/07/2011 23:10

Lost - free swimming is such a joy. Eldest DS is like a spaniel and can't pass a brook without immersing himself. Luckily Dogger is not so keen.

MisSal - have you considered a wedge? DH finds them superior in splitting capability to an axe. He is definitely happiest when swinging over his head. DSs (6&8) are now starting to develop the lumberjack urge too

Slubberdegullion · 15/07/2011 08:05

Reshape, re deltas. If you only have 4 then I would delta Wink the 4 corner guys, that or if you on a site where it is very obvious which direction the prevailing winds come from (bent trees/bushes) then I would stick two on the windward side and the other two on the guys opposite iyswim. I have one for each guy but think that is probably overkill tbh.

Wildy, luminous rock legs are going to be used this w/e on the pop ups. Looks like it's going to be a bit of a windy night so should be interesting to see if they hold fast as well as the deltas. I can admit it here in this company but I did get a frisson of pleasure when they arrived all in their own little slimline natty box. So orderly. So easy to pack.

Now I have free swimming and go to the National Eisteddfordd on my list of things to do before I snuff it.

Oh and notwaving, perfect and beauteous Baldric metaphor

Sal, start an axe thread, but make sure you don,t put axe in The title as that would be too exciting.

Slubberdegullion · 15/07/2011 08:07

Reshape, scrap that, you have a bell, delta all 4 on the windward side

lostinwales · 15/07/2011 10:34

Oh slubber you are so knowledgable, .

Scrap the worries about camping in the heat, the weather forecast is terrible for Monday night. Well at least we won't be boiling!

Free swimming (I'm really starting to like that name) is wonderful, the water is lovely without chemicals or salty sea, this morning though my knees are reminding me that at 37 too much exertion comes at a price.

MisSalLaneous · 15/07/2011 10:52

Joking aside, I've just started an axe thread - Salome, please come and tell me about that wedge. I have no idea what it is.

lostinwales · 15/07/2011 11:00

You can't fault a which axe? page. I NEED one now.

lostinwales · 15/07/2011 11:00

D'oh, wrong thread! Will post over there too! Blush

MisSalLaneous · 15/07/2011 11:12

Thanks Lost!

Funtimewincies · 15/07/2011 13:03

Slubber - 30th July- 6th August. Wrexham Borough residents can get 2 for 1 on adult field tickets for 30th & 31st (offer closes 18th July I think). Children under 5 go free. The website is here.

Axes - now that's hardcore Grin!

Welcome to WildThings and Random and anyone else I've missed Smile.

SeaShellsMyDogSmells · 15/07/2011 13:11

Loving the baldric philosophy Grin up there with clever applications of python quotes :)

It's still sunny here but the wind is beginning to pick up-it could be a wild weekend!

notwavingjustironing · 15/07/2011 17:03

I promise I did make it up myself Grin

The weather's been crazy here red hot and sunny one minute now it's all cloudy and thundery!

Hope those of you venturing forth this weekend have a lovely time and don't get blown away or too wet ....,.

ReshapeWhileDamp · 15/07/2011 17:23

Thanks for wise words re. deltas, Slubber. (For a moment I was trying to work out which are my corners on my bell.)

We've spent most of our daylight hours in the tent since it went up two days ago. Smile Have brought DSs in because DS1 was getting overtired and overexcited and twanging guys and bouncing off sides and so forth. Since it's about to be a rainy party venue I've stuck up some BUNTING and laid rugs and quilts over the floor. Have assured DH that we won't be taking much of that clobber with us when we go camping.

Lying on my Aldi SIMs (v comfy) watching the shadows of the willow tree branches on the canvas is very relaxing...

OhYouBadBadCrookshanks · 15/07/2011 18:53

Hi again,brief visit while the kettle boils. Signal keeps vanishing. Lovely camp site. Weather has turnednow but never mind,burgers and scrumpy soon :)

ReshapeWhileDamp · 15/07/2011 19:38

Blimey, that Fforest site is wanky in the extreme quite precious, isn't it? Grin But yummy. I like the different accommodation - they do tipis, bells, geodesic domes and tunnel tents, with a modern 'crogloft' building if you can't hack camping, but they still make you cook outdoors - see? Meanies. Lovely accommodation, though. Under The Thatch had better watch their backs.

Am still snurking at the gift box of 'matchless fires' - lovingly prepared tinders, including Swedish pine shavings, amadou tinder, and 'last year's dried grass'. In a cardboard box. Grin The hand-wrought fire steel is very pretty though. I want one.

ReshapeWhileDamp · 15/07/2011 19:46

Damn. realised I meant to post this on the Axe thread. Blush

lostinwales · 15/07/2011 20:28

You are right though I couldn't possibly comment as lots for my friends work there. The couple who own it have made a huge contribution to the area though, but there isn't a single job around here that would allow locals to camp there at those prices.

'Matchless fires' are very wanky though, but I've seen them in the shop and they are sooo covetable.

ReshapeWhileDamp · 15/07/2011 21:21

Is Fforest anywhere near the big nature reserve there on the river - outside Cardigan (I think??)? I remember seeing an advert for a soon-to-be-built eco-campsite with lodges and domes and thinking it would be cool.

lostinwales · 15/07/2011 21:34

That's the one, it is very cool just bloody expensive!

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 15/07/2011 21:50

Hello I'm Mary and I don't camp as much as I'd like to [confessional]

Haven't read the whole thread (have you lot been drinking wine by any chance Wink) but got most excited by prospect of Axe thread Grin