What invaluable item would you always take camping........

[DrZeus]

Just asked DH (having just returned from our 5 rainy days) and he said:

Fan heater
Separate gazebo for cooking (or at the very least a sheltered cooking area - having tried to cook in a howling gale this morning)
Adequate lighting using electric hookup
Trailer to carry all the crap stuff
Kontiki
Hymer
Caravan...........

at which point I stopped listening!

You have a point, Slubber - mine were off playing til dark every night, leaving me plenty of time to chat to Troutpout and drink wine tidy up and have a cup of coffee.

It does sound lovely...

If those other campers could just not use the facilities, then life would indeed be perfect.

If there were no facilities, they would not be dirty and smelly.

but if there are no facilities but other campers....then that is a festival, and that is horrid.

ok my personal private utopia is some other campers, who are all lovely and jolly but quiet at night and very clean.

nah, I am a recluse me. My cousin and her partner with their dd joines us the first night. That was jolly, and nice, and we had red wine by the campfire. But they packed up and left the next day. It wasnt lonely!

I am lovely, semi-jolly (not in the morning, admittedly), quiet at night and fastidiously clean I've put some pictures in for a bit so you can see my lovely Monty (OK, it's not a Cabanon but I love it nontheless).

Are you going to go again this year then? After the dayglo poundstretcher trip you were not so keen iirc

Admittedly, dh asked to go again this weekend.

I said "What? I have just managed to get the smoke smell out of all our clothes and tidy away everything! Besides, it is pouring down". But yes, if the weather is good, we will go. It is getting chillier here now.

DH has a mate from London coming next month, they are going mountain cycling off the beaten track for a few days. There are no paths.... He might take the fluorescent poundstretcher, unless his mate brings a 2 person with him!

Love to be on the fantasy camping list!

The sun...

Have decided that tha I am a (largly) fair weather camper

have had 3 days in the pissing down rain and twas a PITA

QS, your DS is so hardy. I am so impressed. Yes, let the poundstretcher tent be his boys own crazy adventure outfit. You keeep the nice one for yourself.

MB: I concur. sun is good.

sorry DH. I imagine you have hardy Ds's too.

Oh and other campers round me who do not make godawful noise late at night!

Woman in next pitch said loudly (after quiet time had started for 90 minute) 'Apparantly my voice ctrries' and I said, clear as a bell from my tent, 'Yes it bloody does!'

at which point she finally shut up!

Lol, a little bit too hardy sometimes!

pmsl at you lot (many of whom are on my fantasy camping list) - actually there were a couple of jolly nice families who just arrived as we were hastily decamping in the pouring rain. I wondered if they would adopt me in their tented village, which centered on a heuge day awning thingy all set up like a school kitchen.

My son asked how we would warm the croissants, whether the little Welsh farm lady would do it and bring them out to the tent - I think he's had a sheltered life. He enjoyed the mildly charcoaled grilled ones.

Invaluable item: wipes and a hot water bottle.

Pee bucket is our essential...

And a wine box

What actually is a fantasy camping list?

[blonde emoticon]

Insect repellant/spray/lotion

QS an equipment fantasy list or a camping trip fantasy list?

I have both.

My equipment list mostly features Cabanon tents and some sort of elaborate camping table set up with baguettes and a pineapple.

My camping trip list is obviously all the lovely mn campers, all pitched around a big field. The sun is shining and all our DC are running and laughing and doing wholesome things, and the mners are in a gaggle, posssibly seated under the coleman out door shelter. There is a Cob bbq. There is a lot of wine. That sort of thing.

I have too much time on my hands, I know this.

Fantasty II is just the mners. There is more wine in fantasy II.

Sounds lovely! I'll subscribe to that!
When are we going!

Oh summer 2009, sunny, and rain and wind free (complete and utter fantasy)

I second that slubber!

We should start planning NOW LC, and making sacrifices to the weather gods.