Stripped-down packing list for Latitude - can someone check I haven't forgotten something vital?

[lovecat]

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! :o

"wine out of a mug is kind of living on the edge a bit"

'suntan lotion.'
pahhahaha

Really big umbrella.

I dunno what a trangia is so I wouldn't take that. Coffee pot? Pop up bin? No and no. Bin bags, yes, much lighter. Mallet, no. Borrow next doors scrounger emoticon But it does give you a chance to chat to your neighbours and you could always give them a mug of wine in exchange. Butter dish - definitely not.

What is a peg extractor? I just use a regular peg upside down and hook the other pegs out with it, very satisfactory.

have a lovely time though, I really hope the weather holds up for you.

Bin most of the cooking stuff, just take cereal, milk and bowls. Also some fruit and cereal bars.

Bin all toys, no need your are at a place of HIGH entertainment

Little camping chairs- yes, nothing else required.

Wear wellies to get on site, take flip flops.

scary I have never been to a festival.

No hang on scrap that, I did once go to a Christian Rock festival in a caravan, so yeah I know about living on the edge.

Here is my minimalist camping list which I will be using this w/e.

Tent, pegs, mallet, peg extractor
sims, sleeping bags, travel pillows
Folding table with 4 stools therein
2 head torches
Pants
Toothbrushes, toothpaste, flannel, soap, deodorant.
4 mugs, 4 bowls, 4 spoons
Single stove camping gaz bivouac doobery living inside the shiny saucepan
Espresso maker
Coffee, cereal, milk, 2l bottle of water, washing up liquid
Box that always goes with spare guys, calpol, clingons, first aid kit etc etc
FIRE BUCKET

Think that's the lot.

I think I am becoming a collector of lists...not sure it's healthy.

So no extra clothes for weekend camping other than pants? Nor food? Do you take a cool box. Am I right in thinking you have a rather fabby one?

What actually is a 'SIM'?
I'm guessing it's nothing to do with mobile phones....

I've never been camping in my life - but i'm fascinated by this thread!!

Is it a garden trolley with fold down sides? So you don't need chairs - fold in a sleeping bag, flop down one side, instant love-seat on wheels. And you'll end up hauling your DD round on it anyway - if you can get her past the kids' field [bitter]

I DO have a fabby one. We took it on our last short trip as I wanted to do a BBQ on the Cobb so needed to keep the meat well chilled. Usually though will just eat out/fish and chips. Saves on space and on washing up.

Nope no extra clothes or shoes, we do take pyjamas though.

cate - self inflating mat

You do need extra clothes for Latitude though - esp as weather over this side a bit unpredictable at the moment.

An extra vest then PerArdua? And a cagoule.

Headtorch for each person

(1) leaves you handsfree for the toilet
(2) means you can see where your child is

Alcohol handgel

shouldn't you have some bunting? (also useful for marking territory)
you can just leave your table and chairs out to identify your space, we were at a festival last year where a huge group marked out about 1/4 acre with about 20 folding chairs.

Ooh - water carrier - stand pipes can be few and far between...

If you lay bedding flat over the car seats, leaving a gap for the seatbelt stalks, you have more room for other stuff. The garden trolley/seat idea is brilliant.

Tomatoes always get squashed. So do bananas. Eggs always break. Your child will survive four days of junk food, mine always have.

Buy a ridiculously cheap gazebo from Asda and leave it behind if it won't come down properly at the end. Although the windbreak angled with the tents should keep late-arriving interlopers from setting up while you're all off checking the place out.

I usually keep refilling a big water bottle at the tap when I need, someone's always heading to the loo/water area.

Warm clothes for the sitting around drinking wine stage. Waterproofs.

Towels for wiping rain off, even if some of you are planning to be smelly. Shove them in the gaps when you've filled the car with everything else.

Jungle formula insect repellent. Suncream.

Wine tastes just as nice in a mug, as long as the tea's been rinsed out first.

Put the cardboard wine box in a shallow waterproof bowl, flop an old towel over it, pour water into bowl. Wine will be cooled by evaporating water. This worked last year in Cornwall.

Handful of clothes pegs and some string to dry stuff off between downpours.

Gaffa tape. You can fix almost anything with it, including bust tents and gazebos.

Roll of bin bags to pack soaking wet stuff in/keep dry stuff dry when it rains during packing up.

More alcohol.

Non melting sweets to bribe children with.

Here's my Latitude list:
1 pop up tent
1 inflatable mat
1 sleeping bag
1 pillow
4 bottles water
toilet paper
sunscreen
umbrella
waterproof
lots and lots of cash

might take a campstove and a saucepan to make coffee in the morning... but i might not.

I only live 45 minutes away so I might come home if the weather's awful. Also I had a bad time hauling piles of equipment in on my own 2 years ago with 2 small children who couldn't walk so far and I ended up having to carry them too. I swore I'd never do that again.

Have had wine and The Apprentice. Will volley forth tomorrow .

I live ten minutes down the road from Latitude and according to the local weather forecast it's going to absolutely piss it down all weekend so my list is basically-

• waterproof hat
• ditto trousers, coat, etc
• wellies
• cover for the car seat so I can jump in and come home and have a hot shower and go to bed and forget all about it.

[hhmm]

Gosh, loads of replies... Warning, am currently v. grumpy as 1) I came on a week early this morning 2) DH has done precisely diddly-squat to get ready for tomorrow while I have been out directing tonight (I will lay money with you now that tomorrow he will throw his washbag and a pair of pants into the back of the car and ask 'aren't you ready yet?' whilst I run round after DD....) so here are my somewhat ungracious responses before I go to bed in order to get up early and pack:

wardrobe comment addressed to a poster above you, Slubs, mithering on about space - I was pointing out it wasn't a wardrobe and didn't actually take up much room but I fear she was doing the 'skip-read the thread and extrapolate therefrom' thing (wow, it's like AIBU has come to Camping... noooooooo!).

Re. 4 days of junk food - erm, no, DD being a fussy baggage will not eat junk food, I wish she would, but based on last year's experience all she will eat that Latitude has to offer is sausage in a bread roll and by day 2 she won't even eat that because she's bored. She gets miserably hungry, we get miserable too, so we are taking food we know she will eat. Plus it costs a fiver a time for said sausage in bread roll and she will only eat about half of it, ever, so I am not wasting money on it again. The food stays on the list - it all fits in the coolbox apart from the cereal anyway and no it won't get squashed, it hasn't any other time we've been camping...

Gapants, we are not at a place of high entertainment solely for DD - and if we want to listen to a lecture/a bit of comedy/dance/theatre in peace, she needs some drawing tools to keep her occupied and content. Lots of stuff that we want to see she will be interested in, but some she isn't and I have learnt from the experience of last year. I am not spending all weekend in the kids arena merely to keep her happy, this is for all of us to enjoy.

Perardua, yes, tis one of the folding down sides jobbies, we were v. envious of parents with them last year when DD was demanding we carry her home up that bloody vertical hill to family camping! That's a good idea re. using it as a seat for us as well.

I would never use camping chairs in the actual arena, these 'festival chair' thingies sit about half an inch off the floor and just save your back a bit. We ARE middle-aged farts (Latitude is full of people like us...:o), but we try to be unobtrusive.

When I said coffee pot I actually meant espresso maker, I had a mental blank earlier and couldn't remember what it was. So does that pass muster, seeing as Slubs has it on her list? Actually I have dumped that out of the box as we've only got the Trangia (it's a stove, btw) to boil water and then make the coffee on, so we will slum it with instant for the weekend. I am considering wine in a tin mug but can't say I fancy the idea....[ponce emoticon]

pmsl that someone suggested I take bunting...:o:o

And those of you who are mocking my insulated butter dish, I say 'pah!' to you... when your butter goes rancid, don't come looking to me for spreadable dairy product!:o

We took a gazebo and it was great for keeping other people at bay sitting in in the rain. I know it's a bit late, but I like to freeze bottles of water before we go. They keep the cooler cool (and butter not rancid) and when they defrost you can drink them.

Sorry to have mocked your insulated butter dish. I'm sure it is a wonderful butterdish and you have very cool and properly formed butter that spreads easily.

Sorry for arsing about on your thread. List looks great and I'm sure you'll have a great time.

i'm not going but judging by the weather outside my window (I'm half an hour from Henham) I would pack your wet weather gear and lots of it. My friends own the sheep on the park and they are busy colouring them up!!!

Dental floss washing line, genius

Good luck lovecat hope you all have a fantastic time! xxx

Being a sneak - I'm a camp bestival gal this year - never thought of putting clothes in cushions - aren't you brilliant!
Do you take your children? My kids key lists are: ear defenders for the kids plus tons of glow sticks so I can see them in the crowds ... Piriton drug protect them against hayfever (townies you see) and fleecie blankets for each kids so they can snuggle down while I do embarassing Mum dancing ...