Footprints and carpets..... necessary or just nice?

[Alambil]

Very small budget for my tent expenses (well, £200 for the tent - not much for extras!)

Do I NEED a footprint and / or carpet? (for the Outwell carolina 3)

[muffle]

Hi chevre! I do recognise you now...

Anyway come in, come in, here's your gin.

[Overmydeadbody]

I'd like to 'tension' some guys. Are they hot slubber?


Link to hat please.

[mollyroger]

I am hippy-cupcake-bunting so I have tibetan Prayer flags and star-lanterns, And tea lights in painted jamjars.

[PlumpRumpSoggyBaps]

Aha. A camping thread with some useful info for me.

I have to go camping for the weekend with my karate group. They already laugh at me cos they are Hardy Types and just unfurl a sleeping bag in their tents while I have the double mattress, duvets, pillows, head torch etc.

So this year I thought I'd go a bit further. I was considering flags or bunting, but I'm most intrigued by this carpet thingy.

Would this be the most impressive, d'you think? Or should I go with the bunting? (And what is cupcake bunting?)

Any other pimping ideas?

[chevre]

snort, burns down beduoin tent andcalls police on your ass

[muffle]

Ha, I'm long gone and pootling round mongolia.

Cupcake bunting is just an MN term for all that pointless cath-kidston-esque frippery like spriggy fabric bunting and knitted cupcakes. Obviously you could get cupcake fabric and make actual cupcake bunting.

ooh

[Overmydeadbody]

PlumpRump go for the bunting, maximum impact as you can hang it up outside too so everyone in the group will see it.

[muffle]

I'm really getting into my bunting plans now - I'm going to make some. I've always yearned to but never done it because it's so pointless, but to hell with it.

[bramblebooks]

raises self from plague ridden sickbed to fnar at tensioning guys.

I have a picnic blanket which I can shake outside.

I also have the terribly glamorous adapted art table technique of opening a newspaper by the door opening, then the happy campers can step on it as they come in, thus drying feet. The dirty/wet sheets of newspaper can be discarded/recycled, leaving a fresh clean layer for more mud.

I do have little led lights inside my tent though and adopt top model poses in my joules camping outfits when my front is propped up on poles.

fnar.

[muffle]

to get you started plumprump, if you don't have time or inclination to make.

[Overmydeadbody]

take your pick

Go on muffle, you know you want to.

[Overmydeadbody]

lol x posts

[chevre]

this is what you need muffle

[Overmydeadbody]

roffle bramble, but doesn't it hurt to prop your front up on poles and then strike model poses?

[muffle]

OMG that's just taking it too far!

See I'm crafty and I have all the stuff I need and vast stash of floral spriggy patchworky fabrics so I'm good to go. It's all I can manage not to skive off mumsnetting work and go and do it now.

[PlumpRumpSoggyBaps]

Oh yes, I see what you mean, muffle and overmydeadbody. Bunting is definitely the way to go.

Now, I wonder if I can find a Japanese speaker who could maybe give me some rude Japanese phrases to paint on some flags?

Hmmmm......

[mollyroger]

oh wow! this will look rather fetching on my boat!

[chevre]

a world of overpriced camping idiocy here

[Overmydeadbody]

DS has his eye on that buntinf too molly

There really is a boat on the river here with some strung up in the window. DS thinks pirates live there.

[chevre]

i quite like these [eats own words emoticon]

[bramblebooks]

wondering if bravissimo do special camping poles (with lace, naturally) for those with extensive frontages needing support.

[Overmydeadbody]

WHO would need an alarm clock when camping?!?

Maybe people without kids

[Overmydeadbody]

I like those too chevre

[Overmydeadbody]

OMG

Why do I like these?

[muffle]

Ooh chevre. I could part with some serious cash on that site. The cups are great.

Mollyroger tell me about the star lanterns, what are they?