Talk to me of windbreaks....

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

I have read of 'cotton' and 'stripy' and I am intrigued, tell me more.

So far I am only aware of beach stylee or tent matching poshness.

We had the later last year and took it back as it was crap, so I need a new one.

If I was to get a cotton one will that make me into the kind of camper who feels the need to decorate nearby trees with bunting? And will it survive the driving rain light showers of North Norfolk?

I want it to protect my stove from the wind (have a metal guard too obv. and cotton somehow seems less burney than plastic.

When I say 'I'm going to get one too' I mean I'm going to get one for dh too, like you lot, NOT I'm going to get one for me too. We don't need his n hers mallets.

wildy you are a mallet trend setter.
Sit back in your camping chair and listen to the sound of solid wood on windbreak. Preen in the knowledge you have saved a lot of camping holidays from disaster.

ahh there's not a finer sound than mallet upon (blue diamond) windbreak.

I'm going to cauterise 'Wildy' upon the handle. DH will think it's a nod at his rugged and base hidden inner self, but I will know the true origins

I'm sorry, my last post is verging on the creepyingly over familiar. I do apologise wildy. Blame this rather nice Reisling I have here. I will of course not be cauterising the mallet. I may let the girls adorn it with my little pony stickers. DH will love that. An ironic mallet.

See, once again this is why I love the camping topic, everyone is nice and everyone is funny, hence everyone is happy.

Fathers Day - Was considering getting DH the folding shovel on special in Aldi for emergency sandcastle building but now not sure if mallet would be better.

Windbreaks - this one is interesting
here

saves building your own with pebbles from the beach

ooh a folding shovel would be good too.

Maybe I'll do a mallet/shovel combo. One from each child.

That wall windbreak is most odd nikki.

I know - why would you choose to spend your camping trip looking at a wall ?

The folding shovels are only £4.99 in Aldi from tomorrow.

This thread is ever so spooky in that by some freakish chance of Father's day present fortune Screw Fix just happens to be right next to Aldi where I live.

I will be going on a little trip tomorrow.

Oh dear.

sorry but apparently hitting metal pegs with a wooden mallet is a major no no(according to aged male relative who knows everything about stuff i couldn't care less about)
I need to get the rubber mallet. So saving beautiful wooden mallet for use on boden windbreaks only......

But wooden mallets were the mallet of choice for the Girl Guides, and they surely cannot be wrong? (Not wishing to cast aspersions on the sugestions of an elderly relative).

I have only ever erected a tent with a wooden mallet and have never encountered a problem.

My new Forge Steel mallet will just be much posher than the cheapy Go Outdoors one that I have now.

OMDB

oh no. We already have a rubber mallet, infact we have two and the Blue Diamond sports metal capped tops. I can see how they would ruin the woodeny smoothness of the Forge Steel

balls

I'll get him the folding spade though

this is the boden of all windbreaks. DH said NO, so I have to have an aldi one tomorrow

how about a custom made windbreak?

I have a very pretty blue diamond windbreak.
It's not perfect ...but it's best we've had so far and stays standing when all tenty ones around have buckled or broken. We had a kyham one before that lasted 2 trips.
My gripe is over the clips which (considering the rest is really well made) are rather shoddy and have gone brittle and snapped one by one. You can probably get replacements but Dh has rigged something in place of them.

No folding shovels in my aldi

Did get a couple of the self inflating camping mats and 4 picnic blackets for a carpet. Resisted the urge to buy the camping cupboard.

I have decided I am going to make a windbreak.

Oh no nikki . I got mine.

OMDB I considered making my own from canvas off cuts that occasionally you see on e-bay. I was going to get broom handles from local hardwear shop and whittle the ends into a point, and borrow my mother's sewing machine. Then I realised that I simply couldn't be arsed [poor effort]

Trout, what are these brittle clips of which you speak?

Slubber
On the plain side of the windbreak...it has clips to keep the fabric in place.
I just went on the website actually and you can buy replacements ...listed here in packs of ten (scroll down to bottom)
We have the harlequin pattern...it's very pretty

slubber that is one pretentious windbreak

Can't stand 'em myself - they remind me of the hellhole in Cornwall a few years ago where every tent was corraled by windbreaks (dh spotted a 16 pole one and therefore won the prize)and the louts inside them treated the site like their back garden.

Interestingly enough noone uses them in France - to shelter your stove you use a windbreak on the camp kitchen.

That's all normal people use em for anyway don't they lucycat? We just put ours around our stove.
I once saw 2 large tents facing each other with big wind breaks on each side going from one tent to the other.

In Cornwall they were being used to corral 4 families of tents to create their own private campsite - complete with bar/mass seating area in the middle

there is/was I think it's been taken over - another campsite in Dorset that only allows 3 pole windbreaks around your stove and then not 'of the beach variety' - if yours was longer than that then the owner would come round when you were out and concertina it up to a 3 pole one!

Luce I always think of you and windbreaks LOL- I once said to a friend going to that site you went to ' my friend on Mn went there and....'

'she said 'Oh that was us I expect, we've been there for alst five years and use lots of them'

(luckily sort of friend that found it funny- phew!)

The site we were on at whitsun- tren tents on the site, all facing in with kids same age and friendly as anything. Otwo tents left and were replaced with famillies same age but all windbreaked in; got a fair few mutterings I must admite- seemed so unfriendly 9and indeed trhey were- very reclusive)

Which I suppose is OK if that what you want

Well I am the proud owner of the 5 pole green stripey blue diamond. I will hold back on opening it until the tatonka tarp arrives. Then I am going to have super fun in the garden with windbreak/tarp/cooker configuration creations.

Lucycat this last holiday we just used the shelter on the stove but even with a mild breeze it kept on blowing out that made me anxious, and carrying it in/out of the porch was a pita.

We had a double tent set up with fenced off central area at our site too. Two beautiful Cabanon Arubas (all matchy matchy) and then in the middle of the ring fenced area a Gazebo AND THEN within the gazebo a pup tent. It was so incongruous that both tents looked out on a gazebo-ed tiny tent. I kept wondering if the Dalai Lama was sleeping inside it.