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)

Hi chevre! I do recognise you now...

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

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

Link to hat please.

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

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?

snort, burns down beduoin tent andcalls police on your ass

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

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

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.

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.

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

take your pick

Go on muffle, you know you want to.

lol x posts

this is what you need muffle

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

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.

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......

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

a world of overpriced camping idiocy here

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.

i quite like these [eats own words emoticon]

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

WHO would need an alarm clock when camping?!?

Maybe people without kids

I like those too chevre

OMG

Why do I like these?

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?