Addressing the feelings schism of enjoying your naice canvas or mo-fo tent when it is up and detesting the utter bastard when you are trying to get it dry

[SlubberTarpWrangler]

On Sunday I loved my tent. Today I HATE IT. Stupid stupid massive damp arsing thing.

Has been repitched in the garden overnight to dry out after the bastard N. Welsh rain fell on it. So the canvas part is dry but the bottom of the sig is not, so have turned it over onto the slightly moist grass to dry the bottom BUT now the canvas will get damp, so then I'll have to turn it over again to dry the canvas, and again and again [sysphean camping Edvard Munch scream emoticon]. And eventually because of mildew paranoia I will have to wrestle the damn thing indoors by myself and let it spend a night getting really seriously dry.

Maybe a teeny tiny back packing tent is the way to go for OVERALL tent love.

Why would I even consider getting a bigger canvas tent?

Stupid fucking damp tent.

I would love a fabulous canvas Dutch tent.

But my lifestyle just can't cope. I am back at work the morning after unpacking from a camping trip, and we have no indoor space for tent airing.

Maybe I could get a tiny one person canvas pup tent?

ESVO do darling little canvas backpacker tents that cost ten hundred thousand euros

Canvas tents are high maintenance unless you can pack them up in dry arid Forrin.

Blu we shall just have to imagine owning lovely mahooosive dutch de Waards. This Cabanon here -> is giving me the rage.

Have you a garage or a car port where you can string a rope or two below the rafters to act as a tent washing line?

I always know its time for a cup of tea after the third time DH says 'that's it we're selling the bastard'. Love it when it's up it hate putting it up.

I am seriously considering hiring the village hall for the next dry out, one overnighter should do

do you have summat similar nearby - church rooms, pub with big function room?

Mmm yes, my acrylic canvassed folding camper looks a bit naff but we mostly camp in Scotland and live in a rain shadow so I had to walk away from lovely canvas tents ( I would love a Holt camper if I lived near the Med).

Oh but it's so pretty slubber!...you don't mean it
I would love a pretty canvas tent too but we have to air indoors across ceiling rafters. Have a yard the size of a postage stamp.
Seriously I wonder if there are tent drying / airing / packing firms and facilities anywhere? I'd be tempted.

When we were camping in July, in Scotland, we noticed a large tent (Outwell Montana I think) with a tarp over it. They'd been there since before we'd arrived without the tarp. They left the next day, and before I'd got to ask about it. Figured it was in case there were overnight showers, which were looming. It did get me thinking ...

By tarp, I mean more of the blue builders groundsheet type things than a nice camping shelter tarp.

You need a climbing frame in the garden - ver' handy for drying out the tent without having the bastard thing taouching the grass.

I do mean it troutpout. The damned thing is now dry and rolled up but have spontaneously decided to go camping again tomorrow so it will be getting wet again. So that was an excellent use of several hours and three billion arm muscle calories getting it dry .

Garage/climbing frame/over tarp all good ideas but I just know that I cannot rest until my canvas has been re-pitched and dried outdoors and then super dried indoors. Current tent weights 24kg and is a massive sprawling bitch indoors on the table. De Waard Albatros twice this size and weight. It just ain't going to happen [sad sad camping face]

Good hols then Chippy?

Like the idea of hiring a village hall (with heating) to dry out behemoth tents but our local one is about £30 an hour. Fine for a children's party for 2 hours, less fine for overnight.

What do Dutch elfin Camping Folk do, I wonder. It does rain in Netherlands, very much so.

Chippy - so did your pop-up do well in the SoF? I was in Decathlon looking at some of the new 'air' ones and thought about whether you would be too hot?

I took mine away for a w/e all by myself, it was perfect but I missed the porch not having a SIG because bastard slugs got into my stove and kitchen-stuff crates in damp southern UK.

The 'air' worked pretty well. Before we went to bed I would just push the whole tent down collapse it and squish the warm air out. Then it would bounce back and suck the cooler evening air in .

That's why we sayed until Tuesday (teachers and their holidays ) so that the tent could dry out as it was wall to wall sunshine again.

Ooh I like the idea of sucking cooler air in!

Lack of slugs & SIG did spoil my enjoyment of the 4.2. However, I'm just going to have to rethink my packing & take more lidded boxes next time. My MIL came with me in the hot spell in July & would have HATED the slugs we had in wetter August. She kept her clothes in the car as it was!

Love the hot / cold air idea!

Lidded boxes are definately the way to go, whether it's slugs, dust, ants or mice (we've has them all at various points!) Pack other stuff in them and then stack up together.

Slugs are the worst I think, although mouse poo on everything is pretty foul too.