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!

zimmerman frames???

Oh dyac you are such a joy.

at Bob Dylan walking frames
I can't get out until after a delivery has come this morning am tempted for the bamboo base layers after a bit of research.

love your new name Cavey

I know you've had it a while..

Just looked at the stovetop cooker. I want one now.

Sorry, do you mean Aldi has bamboo base layers or is that somewhere else?

Hope they have some goodies left tomorrow!

Reshape - we are going on our own tent to Fforest fields, no tipi'ing for us!

I wish you hadn't mentioned the Aldi camping stuff, am supposed to be studying for my exams next week, but have a sudden yearning for Aldi!
I will be telling oh that I am going for washing powder though :)

I had a bit of a wobble at the aluminium (I don't cook with it as a rule) but figured given it won't get used that often, then it should be OK.
The cookbook downloaded from the Omnia website looks fab actually.

I just can't justify a Cobb sadly. So hopefully this'll be a bit of a compromise.

Yes Reshape - Aldi has bamboo base layers - same properties as the nappoes so antibac and theoretically whiff-free Got to be worth a punt I reckon.

Muchostinky - I didn't realise you could camp there - I had a look at their website and couldn't see a BYOT (bring your own tent) option! Mmm, tempted.

I think I'll just have a look at the bamboo tops tomorrow. Just to see.

Just come back from Aldi - I've got the windbreak - £6.99 and 2m long. I also got a pair of hiking boots for DS (sizes 12-3 £9.99). I was tempted by the base layer but there were none in my size :( They were lovely and soft.

Excuse my ignorance but what the heck are gaiters?

Gaiters www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_24204.htm

Have just bought a shark windsock flag.

#essential camping kit

I've just been to Aldi and bought a photo daisy print plastic table cloth #essentialcampingkit.

I like this I've been to Aldi game

ooh also got two huge fleece blankets reduced to 2.99 each. They are pink but DD and I don't mind

I am IN the Aldi gaiters and walking socks as I type, I am also eating an Aldi meatball sandwich in Aldi bread whilst contemplating the Aldi vodka (for dishwasher vodka making).

Go-Aldi!

Also got the boots for a dc and had a feel of the bamboo baselayers which were tremendously soft but did not like the IN YOUR FACE TURQUOISE of the laydee variety. Would have got a soft-grey men's one had they not been in super size L only.

Never mind. Theses gaiters are great. Just walked for an hour in them and look! No muddy trouser bottoms. Nice.

issy the blankets are great. I turned them into sleeping bag liners last year and they are so soft to sleep in.

I want bamboo base layers and fleece blankets too! Do Aldi usually sell out of these things on the day? I can't get there before Saturday.

Slubber - dishwasher vodka making?

yy tis a mn thing but Lovecat is your local camping knower of how to make it.

To summarise:
drink pour out and store some vodka from the bottle
Smash up sweets of choice
Add sweets to vodka
Put lid on
Stick in dishwasher
Shake gently whilst it's still warm when it comes out
Drink flavoured vodka

Tis an experiment

Quenelle - the fleece blankets were a special from a few weeks ago, so if they still have them in now, then they can't have been selling too fast. I have a red one for camping that I bought 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Dishwasher Vodka. Genius.

Thanks Reshape. Looks like I'll be out of luck vis fleece blankets. I'll pop along on Saturday anyway to see what's left.

I'm off to Aldi tonight (we have run out of washing up liquid and theirs is lovely - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!)

Quenelle, our local Aldi never seems to sell out of camping/outdoorsy stuff, possibly because we is in Greater London (innit) and often has it for weeks afterwards. Would you like me to see if they have any fleece blankets whenI go? I dunno if Aldi are posh enough to do 'order it in from another branch' type stuff for you...

And if they have any gaiters left then I may well get a pair, am fed up with damp-bottomed work trousers in the current monsoon conditions (these wide-legged styles may well be supposedly flattering but by God they drag on the floor if you wear them with flats!).

And yyy, Dishwasher voddy is the nuts :o

That's very kind of you Lovecat. Thanks!

I have just arrived back from Aldi and I bought...

A windbreak
Some walking boots for DS
and a hexy stove for emergencies and to remind me of when I was young and still a cadet on camp.

hello peeps - I am here for the season too.
Just returned from Anglesey over Easter - brrrrr but Palamos was great. We are off to Wales at Whit and then right down to the south of France in the summer - after the Welsh rain I am going to need some hot sunshine.

I need some plastic sheeting to put under the groundsheet a la Dutch style to stop the grit getting into the tent.....