Like a balm for the soul. I urge you most strongly to view this splendid tent pitching video.

[Slubberdegullion]

Before I post the link I will give you some pointers to maximise your viewing pleasure.

Yes, the juxtaposition of spa music as background to man with trousers tucked into socks being industrious in the outdoors is an unusual choice but I think it works.

Opening shot and no indeed, your eyes are not deceiving you, that is indeed a man in a forest in the dark in a tent with a fire and a desk! All sorts of questions arise from that.

Note how the tent comes out of the bag. luxuriantly and also pegged down so it doesn't fly away.

At 5.30 there commences an exciting period in the film involving the many doors.

7.50 he's just walking through those doors. Right through. Nothing is stopping him. NOTHING.

and what must be the best climax to a tent pitching video, at 8.16 the quite supremely fabulous natty little cover for the stove pipe.

enjoy

I knew this would be you!!

I enjoyed the close-up of 'the pole sitting in the cup'

One could set a french farce in that tent, with so many doors, so many possibilities

Is there a Mrs Valhall? I do admire a competent man (geddit??)

He forgot his inner tent

He doesn't need an inner. He works at his desk and then just sleeps on the earth next to his fire.

I also enjoyed pole in cup shot.

All I could think was 'I could pitch my tent, get sim's out, ironically bunt and be half way down my first gin in a tin in the time it's taken this guy to fondle his cups'. Notice the stove fitting at the top reduces the amount of rain getting in, not stops it all together.

I love you slubber

Beautiful tent. Dh and I sniggering....but goodness how much?!

Is it really bad that I burst out laughing when he nearly tripped when leaving the tent?

Yy Losty, saw that "reduces" part! Have to admit though, having a flue-gap ready is brilliant and would have saved me hours of persuading dh we won't all burn to a crisp.

Losty, take your ironic bunting and begone with your practical criticisms. He has a stove and a desk and many doors. Do you have things? Do you? Does flute music play when you pitch your tent?

I didn't think so.

Seashells I know. And the price of the optional inners .
It's those damned Norwegians see, and their high quality extortionate products.

Oh, and back on the drooling - it's so small. (the tent, that is) I want a small one. (ditto)

Sal the flue hole with the external flap made me extremely happy. I even shouted for dh to come down and view it immediately. And then we checked on the price.

Curses.

9kg I think it weighs Sal.

Un-be-many-doors-leavable.

9.5 kg

And you can clearly use it as a home-office. Compared to office rental, it might not be too bad, really. A bargain, now that I think of it.

I like the way you are thinking around the cost problem Sal.

I particularly like the manly possessiveness of the hand on each plump, tempting bag at the beginning.

It's an impressively windy day for the film, I must say.

Hahahaha @ plump, tempting bag. But aren't they just.

It's all so taut

Am troubled about the inner though.

At the start he, as joan says, presses the 4 plump bags, the second of which is labelled "inner tent 1 of 2".
Where is 2 of 2?

And at the end he does have a single inner tent erected behind the desk for nordic deep wood action, but no sign of 2 of 2. Merely a folorn black souwester spinning in the thermals from the stove.

Hmmm dh is now saying they are not top end brand in Norway....so that's cheap

Don't be troubled Chippy.

It's optional isn't it. 2 of 2. Maybe of film day he just didn't fancy another one. He wanted to be loose and free with his many doors. He'S not a man repressed by symmetrical inners attachment. I respect him for that.

not laughing at Nordic deep wood action. Norty

GET AWAY Seashells

He's a lone nutter in the style of BBC4 Scandi crime dramas tragic novelist out in the woods all alone.

Would this entice him do you think?

Haha he probably has one on underneath his olive green outer layer.

Nice tent! Mostly not paying close enough attention though as sniggering at this thread!

I love the idea of having the end peg point handily sticking out of the bag in readiness of high winds, genius!

Isn't it BlackCats. I love the way it just slides out of the bag too.

the tent coming out of the bag is like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon! poetic.