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Bought a tent, what do we need now?

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hmb · 25/07/2004 16:51

I have finaly worn dh down and we bought a tent this weekend! It is a colarado 8, anyone used one, and are the ok?? (insert worried looking face!)

Now that we have the tent, what would you camping experts recoment for a reasonably comfortable stay. Kids are 5 and 7, dh and I too old to admit . Like a bit of luxury, so not into rubbing two boy scout together to light the fire.

Your help greatfully received!

OP posts:
Blu · 10/08/2004 15:59

In Norfolk, surrounded by obsessed birwatchers, a robin landed on our table. He said 'aaah, look, a chuffnik'!

CountessDracula · 10/08/2004 15:59

BUT WE LIKE IT! (being southerners) Your parochial little expressions serve only to remind us that there for the grace of god....

Fio2 · 10/08/2004 16:00

I reckon they do janh

having a cob on can also be a mood

JanH · 10/08/2004 16:01

CD darling, it's plain you have never been near a Haven Holiday Park. They are crammed (hahaha) with enormous things which are neither sheds nor houses, nor on wheels, and have to be moved on the back of a lorry, but are still, defiantly (and definitely), caravans.

Blu · 10/08/2004 16:01

Cd I am TERRIBLY impressed by your literary understanding of the word 'cob'. Education transcends all boundaries.

Fio2 · 10/08/2004 16:01

and roll up brum is a quick shag

JanH · 10/08/2004 16:02

Blu, what did he mean, please?

(Am trying to relate it to beatnik and sputnik but failing.)

Blu · 10/08/2004 16:03

Jan: I THINK he meant Chaffinch - even tho' it was a robin.

Fio2 · 10/08/2004 16:04

i dont know the chuffnik thing either, know a spug

CountessDracula · 10/08/2004 16:04

eh????

Blu · 10/08/2004 16:05

Last week I had to work really hard to convince him that the brown bird in the garden really was a blackbird.

Fio2 · 10/08/2004 16:05

is this your husband Blu?

JanH · 10/08/2004 16:06

Oh, Blu, bless him! I hope he will pass on his grasp of country lore to DS.

Blu · 10/08/2004 16:06

Well, we're not actually married. But he is the father of my chiold - how he managed that with such a sparese knowledge of nature, i'm not sure.

CountessDracula · 10/08/2004 16:06

What is a spug
What literary understanding

oh god

JanH · 10/08/2004 16:07

spug is a sparrow, wee speug in Scottish so I'm told.

Did he believe you about the brownbird?

Blu · 10/08/2004 16:10

A spug, or spuggie, is Geordie for Sparrow.
Doesn't the French Leutenents Woman all happen on the Cob?
DP still sceptical about the female balckbird,

and will he pass on such advanced natural knowledge as :
me "it's high tide at about 8 tonight"
him " oh, that's unusual, isn't it? It always comes up at lunchtime in Mauritius!"

JanH · 10/08/2004 16:14

LOL Blu, that's classic!

Is he the brilliant absent-minded professor type? Does he have to have his name and phonenumber on a wristband so he doesn't get lost? Or is it just nature that baffles him?

Blu · 10/08/2004 16:17

Mainly the Natural World. And cars. And bikes. He is intelllectual and urban. A Beer Garden is his idea of the countryside. Our camping trip is the w/e after next. I will take notes, and maybe photos and video!

CountessDracula · 10/08/2004 16:19

Oh I see, I thought you were talking about bread rolls.

And yes it does, but the Cobb is a real life thing in Lyme Regis, John Fowles lived near there I believe and used it as the setting for The FLW.

So there's some southern shite for ya!

iota · 10/08/2004 16:20

a cob is also a male swan

iota · 10/08/2004 16:21

and another name for a hazel-nut

Blu · 10/08/2004 16:23

And a bad mood as in 'you've gorra cob on!'

CountessDracula · 10/08/2004 16:38

And a very short horse

lou33 · 10/08/2004 16:39

I would pitch it inside a luxury hotel room myself.