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This sounds so fab I might even consider camping myself

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bran · 27/08/2006 14:52

I've just read this article in the Sunday Times and it sounds idyllic. It addresses two of my main problems with camping (being able to go to the loo without tramping across a field and sleeping in comfort).

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Mercy · 27/08/2006 15:05

£500 lol at back to basics!!

I do like the farm idea though.

cat64 · 27/08/2006 15:16

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bran · 27/08/2006 15:32

I quite like the romanticism of cooking on a wood-fired stove and not having electricity Cat. My dh can't really do holidays, if he can charge his mobile phone and/or get access to a computer then he works, there's a slight chance that he might actually wind down somewhere like that.

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bran · 27/08/2006 15:53

Yes, but do you have a proper mattress and a loo in your tent SS? (Bushes adjacent to the tent do not count as a loo.)

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sallystrawberry · 27/08/2006 15:55

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bran · 27/08/2006 15:59

Potties don't count either. Do you really bring a proper matress camping or are you implying that an air bed is a comfy as a proper bed (because I've tried them and they aren't).

The whole set up on that link looks a bit like going on safari in big luxurious tents, but with sheep and cows rather than lions and elephants.

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sallystrawberry · 27/08/2006 16:01

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bran · 27/08/2006 16:10

That doesn't count either.

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Troutpout · 27/08/2006 18:11

Not as roomy as my monty

GeorginaA · 27/08/2006 18:39

You get a proper mattress in a folding camper ...

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rbj949703 · 03/09/2006 12:47

We've just come back from staying on a real live working farm and paid about £200 for 2 weeks, had to take our own tent though, but still had electricity. Kids loved it, watching the horses and the cows.

Sparkler1 · 03/09/2006 21:18

That's not camping. REAL camping is the enjoyment of putting up a tent rain or shine. Trying to get the tent pegs into a rock hard ground without thumping your fingers with the lump hammer. REAL camping IS walking across a field in the middle of the night in the pitch black to go to the loo, or holding on desperately until morning light. REAL camping is waking up in the morning with back ache from sleeping on a rock hard camping bed and cooking breakfast outside on a gas stove.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh - I love it I do! Just done a week and am looking forward to another trip as soon as we can.

Blandmum · 03/09/2006 21:20

Nope, sorry, re the loos.

Read campers pee in a bucket with a lid

fullmoonfiend · 03/09/2006 21:22

I can identify with the 'too posh for caravans' bit, though

(before any caravan owners start shouting at me, I am a life-long camper very newly turned campervanner - much cooler )

Sparkler1 · 03/09/2006 21:22

Actually MB - that's one of the items on my list for our next camping trip. A bucket!
I had to get up in the middle of the night last week in desperation - I've never been so pertrified in all my life going out in the pitch black on my own.

Blandmum · 03/09/2006 21:24

wit a lid is handy

nappy bucket is a good size and what we have.

Verry handy in the middle of the night!

Surfermum · 03/09/2006 21:27

I'm another potty user. It isn't funny when you start to realise that your bladder was more full than you thought and you might have an overflow situation.

Blandmum · 03/09/2006 21:28

Bucket with a lid is the way to go. Never have those 'over flow' moment with the BWAL.

Surfermum · 03/09/2006 21:30

I also had to waddle across the tent with my pj's round my ankles as I kept forgetting to put the loo roll by the potty. Not easy after a few shandies. I must admit I ended up thinking by jove Martianbishop is right. A bucket with a lid is the way to go.

Blandmum · 03/09/2006 21:33

Glad to think that I was foremost in your mind during your hour of need! LOL

and to think that I often feel my life has been wasted