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Around the Cadac with bunting, tealight chandeliers and fairylights on the EHU

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notwavingjustironing · 16/08/2011 12:56

Gawd, the minimalists will kill us.....

It was Someone Else's idea, all right?

Carry on where you left off, be it owls, bins, sharks, tins of vodka, karaoke etc. [grain]

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YellowDinosaur · 16/08/2011 22:27

Scaryt I LOVE that nutella mug cake! Nutella is no on the shopping list and I will be making it asap! (I can pretent I am a domestic goddess for making cake [grain])

lost Grin at you missing sticking needles in people! I actually get to cut them open - thats proper cool Grin! I still have pinch myself moments that I have such a responsible job when fundamentally I am pretty childish really [grain]

I just did a typo where I typed 'grin' instead of 'grain' and had to change it back!!! I love a good in joke [grain]!!

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notwavingjustironing · 16/08/2011 22:44

I've been out for curry and two bottles of wine with my two bessies - get me on a Tuesday!

Love the fact that Slubber has popped in, has been horrified, and has headed back into the Black Forest, wishing she hadn't asked Bramble to pimp put out her bin. Seriously though, do any of you even begin to explain what makes you laugh on this thread? I'm struggling for any sense of sanity ......Grin

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ReshapeWhileDamp · 16/08/2011 22:51
brambleschooks · 16/08/2011 23:22

Sorting at you lot. If you only could have seen the manoeuvres and witnessed at one point me crouching behind the bin hiding from the builders who decided to walk past at that point. It looked like I was performing something without a camping khazi or shovel.

Respect at needles and hex raying.

Pleased to see slubber, glad that the hol is sufficiently adventurous and challenging. I imagine that she's been wrestling with bears when not grazing on trees. She'll be so pleased when she sees the bridgewater polka dot pattern I've decorated her garage doors with.

brambleschooks · 16/08/2011 23:23

Sorting? What kind of dyac is that? I can't even remember what I meant in the first place. Too much karaoke roller disco. Must have been summat like smiling.

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notwavingjustironing · 16/08/2011 23:40

Sorry Bramble WTF is dyac?

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notwavingjustironing · 16/08/2011 23:44

And ok, dual crime WTF is "sorting at you lot"

Are you putting us into Tupperware and putting us to one side for later ? Grin

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lovecat · 17/08/2011 07:13

Bloody internet decided I wasn't allowed on last night (typical, DH goes off to his postponed meeting in Manchester, nowt on telly, and the internet is broken!) so I've only just caught up - thanks Funtime for the Trangia advice. I don't think I've ever used it at anything but full throttle and it still seems achingly slow. Not that I'm impatient or anything...

I have just laughed aloud at brambles Bridgewater garage doors & got a v. funny look from DH [grain]

Those fajitas sound lovely, Yellow, if only DD ate anything that wasn't meat & two veg (or pasta at a push)... maybe in later years.

Loving all the 'smart'phone typos :o

brambleschooks · 17/08/2011 08:51

Notwaving - google dyac or 'damn you autocorrect' and be prepared to cry laughing for hours. I have to stop reading it as it makes me laugh so much I can't breathe!

I am going to field and trek today to look at bargain sims for our next camping trip...

scaryt · 17/08/2011 09:18

Need to unearth this fajita recipe, sounds yum.

Polka dot garage doors should be all the rage. Slubber's so lucky to have a friend like you brambles Wink

Yellow - cutting people open? What do you do in them once opened?

off to google dyac

SeaShellsInTheMoonlight · 17/08/2011 09:35

Dyac has wasted hours here to. I can recommend avoiding reading it whilst doing the middle of the night bf-has had me crying with laughter!!

ReshapeWhileDamp · 17/08/2011 09:48

Love the sound of Emma Bridgewater spotty doors - does Slubber's house now look like Mr. Tumble's? Grin

Fennel · 17/08/2011 10:11

Ooh, I can join the trangia brigade (no iphones for our low tech camping)

We took our ancient trangia to the Scillies (I was a bit sad to leave behind our nice new camping stove, but it failed the minimalist 2-bags-per-person test). DP spiced it up though by attaching gas cannisters to it which was much faster than using meths.

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notwavingjustironing · 17/08/2011 10:13

WHY have I never seen dyac before?

Its hilarious!

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Funtimewincies · 17/08/2011 12:45

Soooooooo going to do the Nutella cake when we get back Grin.

Today is being spent freezing runner beans, cooking chilli and trying to find the camping stuff. Where would you have put the bag full of lanterns, head torches and random (but essential) bits and pieces Hmm?

Brambles - were you the girl at school who was really fun to hang out with, right up until the point when your mum gets 'that phone call'? Grin

scaryt · 17/08/2011 13:30

I really wanted a trangia but they seemed so small! And there's only me and the boy. I got a bivouac set instead but could still be tempted by one, they should be cheaper to run on meths, right?

Feeling so strange today, is this normal for painkillers? I only take the odd paracetamol.

Funtimewincies · 17/08/2011 13:37

Where are my lanterns ? I've turned the garage upside down Sad.

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notwavingjustironing · 17/08/2011 14:01

When do you go, Funtime? I think there are a few of us off again this weekend. Lovecat are you off or am I going mad?

I'm back off to Wales again for a week this Saturday. Can't wait.

Have you looked in Slubber's bin for your stuff ? Grin

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Funtimewincies · 17/08/2011 14:08

We're off tomorrow (rain, rain, go away...) to southish Shropshire.

Where in Wales are you off to notwaving?

BIN! Genius! Grin

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notwavingjustironing · 17/08/2011 14:14

Anglesey Funtime. Actually, can I ask you lot a sensible question for a change?

I've got three, count 'em, windbreaks now. Can anyone tell me what the best way to pitch the ones with guy ropes is?

I've got a proper nylony "matches the tent" one, and I struggled to put that up, then I made a panic buy in Tesco last week for a grey one with telescopic poles.

The only problem is, that they both have small "pins" for want of a better word, rather than my old fashioned stripy beach windbreak (hammer in with a big stone type).

Which way should I be attaching the guy ropes for maximum protection ? I can't tie it to the tent in any way as I have a tunnel tent and nothing to give it any purchase.

I feel a right idiot and its my only area of incompetence (apart from barbequing and that's a whole area in itself) Grin

Top tips please. I promise to be grateful.

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YellowDinosaur · 17/08/2011 14:56

brambles I am pmsl at dyac GrinGrinGrin Its superb!!! Thanks loads for that! Almost as good as the discovery that G&T comes in cans! Also pmsl at the bridgewater garage - slubber will be so pleased! [grain] Particularly at the image from reshape of it looking like Mr Tumbles! Please tell me the bin decor stays?

notwaving sorry can't help with the windbreak question. I have the blue diamond hammer that you hammer in with the mallet - no guys. Sure there is someone who will help you soon!

scaryt don't worry I'm not some slasher murderer or anything! I am a surgeon so sharp knives and people is an occupational hazard (and you'll be pleased to know that the 2 people in question from yesterday are happy and well this am Smile)

Very jealous at all of you off this weekend. I'd love to be heading off camping again but dh has very firmly said NOT AGAIN THIS YEAR!!! May make it away for a night or 2 on my own with the boys weather permitting but will have to wait and see...

Still, enjoying my phased return after holiday Grin. ANother early finish today as the clinic I help at on alternate weeks is cancelled this week! All good!

lovecat · 17/08/2011 15:03

You're not going mad (any more than usual) Notwaving, I'm off to Kent for a weekend of bacardi and coke in a tin wholesome outdoorsyness with DD, her BF and her BF's mum, who is thankfully also a good mate.

I have to put the roofbox back on DH's car, tidy out my mobile skip car so that DH can take it to work on Friday and not have to park it elsewhere and pretend it's not his, pack up and collect the others on Friday afternoon. Oh, and print out a map so I can find the place! Never been to Bedgebury before, it looks lovely, I'm just crossing my fingers for good/reasonable weather.

Am probably a total ponce, but have pre-booked a 'fireside' pack, which is firewood, kindling, a pack of marshmallows and 2 bales of hay to sit on. I figured that way we won't have to pack the camping chairs!

And I need to suss out how to rig this tarp in case it does rain!

I bought one of those Tesco windbreaks and gave up in disgust. Sorry, no help there at all!

scaryt · 17/08/2011 15:04

We are off to Leek for 3 nights. Looking forward to our virgin camp.

Yellow - glad your patients are well and happy and that you are not a slasher murderer a surgeon!

No help with windbreaks, only got a beach one that you hammer in to the ground.

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notwavingjustironing · 17/08/2011 15:23

So basically, we are all as crap as each other when it comes to windbreaks!

I was expecting a load of harrumphing from you all and "call yourself a camper" type comments.....

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Funtimewincies · 17/08/2011 16:09

Sorry, no windbreaks, the other family that we camp with have got that covered and have the beach type ones.

Welll, I found the lanterns and other crap bag Grin. It was notwaving who gave me the idea .

It was in the old nappy bucket that we use for a bin (with binbag of course, I'm not that manky). Hooray! Is it too early for gin?