Chat around the Campfire....

[SeaShellsUnderCanvas]

So last year we had a general chat thread for bragging/nattering/safe havens from when the trolls were out in the main boards! Thought we would start one again as it was lovely!

Ha Ha lostinwales - sorry to burst the bubble but I'm a city girl who loves field and forest! Funnily enough I haven't got stemmed wine glasses - yet- note to self - must look on john lewis website now ;-)

Good to see familiar faced

So did we crash the iceyT website? I do wonder how many they sold us all as they are pricy (but v good!)

I am not liking this stormy weather. I don't mind rain but I object to gales whilst camping?

Sounds great to me Lost, much more the way my family used to do it in the 70s.

I have to take issue with plastic mugs for tea though. I'll drink wine and beer out of any vessel (and gin and tonic from a tin obviously) but tea has to be in a real mug.

hillbilly looks like you'll be going to Town Farm before me. Will you let us know how it is so I can update my spreadsheet?

No SeaShells gales and tents don't mix. One particularly memorable night in Edinburgh about 15 years ago springs to mind. DH still doesn't see the funny side.

I want to join in the camping chatter but have nothing interesting or useful to contribute
I could possibly proffer a spanish omlette recipe that I'm currently cooking for tea that would be suitable for campsite cooking? (It's actually just a normal spanish omlette, not special or unusual.)

I'm with Quenelle, I'll take booze from any container, but tea from a real, thick, proper mug .

I must be really fussy, I like tea in a fine china mug and wine in a glass glass. .

My DF has a game that he mostly plays by himself in France where he tries to buy the cheapest bottle of wine that is still drinkable. He used to manage around 80cents. and he drinks it from a glass glass.

Spanish omelette recipes are a good contribution!
Nom nom

You'd be amazed at the poncery in my kit. Long stemmed wineglasses included.

Spanish omelette recipe please

I like that game loubie. I will see what I can find for under ?1 in the Dordogne.

Actually, I'm reconsidering the glass glass option now. Maybe not poncery on a par with notters but a fairly thick, short-stemmed one would survive a fortnight in France wouldn't it?

I will never forget the sight of DH trying to struggle into his jeans and boots whilst he clung onto a tent pole and I had hold of two of the peg loops that had broken, trying to stop the whole thing from blowing away. It was thrown onto the back seat of the car in a heap and we headed south, arriving back in England as the sun was coming up. Our last, and probably only, camping trip to Scotland.

Klas Ohlson have some very civilised non breakable wine glasses in the camping section.

Mmmmm Notters -I like that Quenelle ;-)

I bought some all purpose turquoise plastic tumblers from habitat last year and they are what we used for camping last year. This year however it will be stemmed wine glasses and a real mug for my tea. I have a Union Jack one which possibly will accompany me when we camp Jubilee weekend!

Ignore first line of my last post - too complicated to explain why it does not make sense!

Notters do you mean www.clasohlson.co.uk ? Can't find the glasses.......

Quenelle Buy some Duralex tumblers in the French supermarket? Glass but virtually unbreakable.

Blu I have a BIG car. And we leave DH at home

Spanish omelette is a good idea. I wonder if frozen potato in some form would work?

Oh my goodness.

Duralex tumblers
[1980s French camping flashback extraordinaire]

34 3163 is the code for the wine glasses. They have shot glasses and tumblers too

I used this Good Food Recipe, but tend to use recipes as a guide so next time I would cook the onion and potato hotter and just make sure they didn't crisp.
I added bacon to mine but I think you can add anything you like.
I'm sure frozen potato would work, you can buy those cubes of potato that would be good I think. They might take a bit longer to cook through to begin with that's all.
As long as you could keep the heat low enough /pan high enough, to allow the egg to cook through without burning the bottom I think you'd be able to do this on a camp fire or bbq. And it's nice cold for the next day if there's any left.

I think the tumblers we have in out camper are Duralex! we bought them last summer in an Italian supermarket beacuse they are short enough to fit in out tiny lockers.

Aldi do some nice fresh potato gratins (in the chilled section). You could improvise with those too, as the potatoes are already cooked. They have different varieties too, with ham and mushrooms etc.

Don't forget chaps, walking socks and children's walking shoes (sizes 12-3) in Aldi tomorrow .

If all you had to do was add the egg it would be really quick. Excellent idea notters.
I do need to come up with some decent camping food ideas. If the children had their way we would eat pasta every day.
I'm about to book two weeks in Cornwall in the Summer hols and two weeks of pasta would finish me off.

Chaps? as in the trousers cowboys wear?

loubie, chaps as in 'you lot' type turn of phrase . I was going to say laydees but it sounded sexist and some of this rabble are certainly not ladylike.

There are also gaiters