CampingClaire or Nettle, what are these bits for please?

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We are a tad baffled.

I think it is a Dutch joke

No 1 is some sort of mobile foot, but all the ends of the poles, at full length, have a solid end and won't go into/over the little protuberance. Is the foot only for use when yiu have the poles at a shorter length, and would that be when yiu are hunkering down for a storm and want to go from Vario sail mode to Vario testudo mode?

No 2 is some sort of protective flange but for under/over what? Small canopy? Vario?

No 3 spare rubbers. But there are no actual rubbers anywhere on the tent anyway. What's that all about then?

Do either of you have a the picture of the order you peg the guys in. No instructions whatsoever in the tent bags, thank hod I googled before our practice pitch today, so we had a vague idea what the chuff we were doing.

It's a very complicated sort of Dutch joke.

We've got like six of the little feet!

No 2 is definitely some kind of breastfeeding aid.

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Looks like your feet here. Maybe they are when you pitch on a carpet?

How many of the Dutch caps do you have?do they pop on top of the poles to protect the canvas? The rest are utilitarian loom bands

no 1 is definately a foot - looks like part of the awning so that it goes at an angle - its confusing becaiuse our awning feet dont have that middle sticky up bits
no 2 goes under a spiky pole and under the canvas I am guessing - again we have some funny rubber caps that look even more like nipple shields but we have never worked out how or why to use them, and so we dont. I think we thought they may go on the top poles, or maybe on poles that have guy ropes slung around them, but by the time we remembered them the poles were miles up in the air, so we forgot about them until next year.

rubber loops go along the bottom of the side walls, as in the linked photo. This gives the wall a bit of 'give' in the wind and stops the canvas ripping. Or taking off.

Have you been out in it yet??

Those rubber bands look so premium

yes, but they still perished after being up for 5 months solid. bah humbug. We have had to resort to bungie cord with balls on the end and heavy duty marquee spiral spikes to keep it up for that long now.

Drat. Illusion well and truly shattered... You do ask a lot of yours though!!

Yy cereal that's my feet!

But the awning poles, no all the poles have a solid bottom so there is no way the pole can fit onto/into that foot.

The only way the poles go onto the feet is if I take the bottom section off, and then I've got a hollow pole that fits onto the foot, but it's obviously a shorter pole.

I have emailed Pé.

Nipple shield I now understand, goes under canvas, yes that would make sense.

Dutch loom bands -tick.

No 1 is a pole cup but ours didn't have that other bit inside it....does it move around like an elbow joint? All our poles had cups like that to put underneath once it was pitched...the main centre pole had a big cup but not quite like that....stumped...ask Pe!
The sort of inside of a breastfeeding bra thing....don't have that either!!! guessing it's a protector for between the variolifuil and the tent to stop them rubbing? (I'm guessing though).
The other things are the rubbers for attaching to side vents before pegging out to still let it move in the wind but to stop you taking off.
I will show hubby pics later to check his answers!!
As for pegging...start at the back and do left and right pairs towards the front. So start at 12 o'clock then do 11 and 1, then 10 and 2 and so on.

Oh...I think maybe the bra feeding thing is an update of our plastic nipple that fitted over the top pole as an extra to stop rain coming in. Do you have anything that looks like a small teat? If not, then that is what that may be?!
Poor Pe will have to now answer questions about a small plastic teat!!

We have several rain caps, so they go on top, and the nipple shield goes over the canvas to protect it from rubbing. I assume.

Pé has sent me back a slightly confusing email saying that yes indeed those are the feet for the outside poles and the 'end plate' of the poles comes off so one can insert one's pole into one's foot.

Except the end plates don't come off. Not even with much twisting and picking and straining and uttering Elvish phrases. So I am none the wiser. Maybe I need to find a Dutch person to take them off. Maybe it's something you get taught in primary school over there.

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Right...hubby will appear at my shop shortly so I shall remember to pick his brains!! However, he is not Dutch and does not speak Elvish so we may need to canvas a Dutch speaker. Are you on twitter...I have loads of Dutch followers but unsure how to guide them to mumsnet! I could give you their twitter names and tell them we need answers to these DeWaard questions?

Right...I've tweeted for help...let's see what happens!

Thanks Claire.

This is what Pé said
"You will need to take out the endstop(blindplate) that is in the bottom pole part.
The pole is than placed over the tube shaped part of this groundplate."

Totally straight forward, apart from the getting the endstop out.

Have shown pic to hubby and he sort of squinted, raised an eyebrow, then announced that sometimes when we take the poles from the cups, the end does come off by accident...it sort of gets suctioned off...so maybe you need to try some Elvish!! He also said...'unless you are camping in swampland the pole will probably not sink" He thinks this is funny!!
Maybe Pe could come over and give us all tutorials!!

Good Luck!!

Thanks!
North Wales is absolutely never like swampland, at all. Nothing but arid parched cracked earth as far as the eye can see...