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)

Good grief, she made you give it up WOW, but you were the ULTIMATE electric blanket fanatic . Glad to hear new mattress is keeping you warm.

I always take my hot water bottle camping. I like to warm up the foot end of my sleeping bag AND my PJs simultaneoulsy before going to bed.

Bugger off slubber LOL, the doormat comes froee with an Outwell. I wouldn't waste my hard earned on it, the rubber one comes from Wilkinsons PMSL

Anyway have been earning creds buying rucksack and stuff for DS2's first scouting outing in a few weeks so suspect have more current exposure to then rough n ready way that Cabanon dwellers m's dear

Dotty in seriousness if you're a coldblood (like me) make sure you pad out under the Airic with something- towels, fleece, we take a blanket- the amount of cold that can carry up through a bedmat or airbed is incredible.

touche

hahahaha

Come on, admit it, you love your matching doormat don't you?

Oh good - glad I'm not the only wuss person who feels the cold... Am thinking of buying a couple more hot water bottles - the little ones - I can let ds's use them and then sneak them out of their sleeping bags and use them for me once they're asleep .

Right - am off to do more knitting!

The doormat is an annoyance

The fruit bowl OTOH (not Outwell!) I do rather like.....

I did give my camping lareder away to marymotherofcheeses though, couldn't see the point TBH.

'COurse for ponce value all I ahve to say is

Cobb!

It doubles as a sald bowl- or any other kind of big bowl really. Including

and prepare to PMSL

for mixing cake mix when we go to the newforest: now wehavet4ested cobb roast techniques, we're onto baking ( I say we, Dh will roll his eyes and huff no odubt )

When not in use, bowl becomes fruit bowl.

Oh

my

God

[taken aback and yet alarmingly attracted to the though of fresh cake in tent event]

the roast was yummy LOL, eaten on a pinic table with yorkshire puds..... rest of site was a bit [hsock]though PMSL

when we had our camper vn (sigh) I had a little wire shelf unit for shoes in the awning. DH nearly burst a blood vessel at that.

then I tried to smuggle one of these babies on board...

rofl at the furry umbrella

peachy where might you be camping next time around then? (with the Cob natch)

if you have a SIG then a footprint is necessary IMO... means when its muddy your tent doesnt get coated in mud that is very difficult to remove and your footprint can then be hosed off
a carpet is just nice IMO

i went camping at easter when it was so cold the cars and tents froze.... i doidnt have a carpet and was not bothered

@ blue furriness.

We have these to put under our airbeds, they are £1.99 at Wilkos and they have them again this year, they fold up pretty small and keep you sooo toasty.

Dp nearly phsl when I brought them, but they are fab.

Slubber am happy to report that I have been in the garden banging away with my Forge Steel and am very impressed, knocks them in a treat.

@ Wildy.

Why are you practicing putting up a windbreak in your garden? [most perplexed]

You know I have oft thought about how to attach some sort of reflective backing to the thermaretsts. The sunscreen is a stroke of genius.

and would you like a slice of lemon or lime with your gin?

[emoticon arse fingers]

Lol, no, the windbreak (£7.99 Aldi in the end) is still firmly in it's protective wrapping, I took a selection of pegs into the garden for target practice.

Didn't want to turn up at the campsite only to find that wooden mallets are unsuitable for tent erection and have it spontaneously combust or something.

Don't forget I have my lovely new yellow delta too, a girl need to perfect her technique before performing in the public eye.

GET YOU and your perfecting of delta peg insertion.

lolol

So was there dimpling of the forge steel upon impact with the metal pegs?

I found a link the other day for how to put your dletas in and out but forget now who was a novice.

Their is minor dentidge, but I believe this is considered desirable, eventally a hollow will be worn making it into the perfect mallet.

Probably just in time to hand it on to the children like the well-loved heirloom I'm sure it will become.

God knows the amount we spend on camping crap we won't have any money to leave them.

aw, now I have the warm fuzzies at the mallet heirloom. I could give the retro (nay antique) orange melamine table-wear to dd1 and the aged dinted forge steel to dd2.

better go to screw-fix before sunday

Cake. In a tent.

That's it. Next time we go I'm booking a skip to follow behind with my eglu and chickens.

I thought that big mutha eglu you had Bramble was on wheels. Why not just attach it to the back of the car. You could get a little roof box to strap on top of it, within which you could pack the cob, SR flour, caster sugar and butter.

Iam taking some duke of edinburgh students camping this weekend, they will have their little tents they can fit in a rucksack. Dp and I are turning up in our huge 6 man tent complete with carpet!

This is very true. In fact I may as well tether the hens to the roof bars; they can flap and reduce the petrol I consume.

Poor old chooks. I doubt you's get much egg action if you tethered them to the roofbars.

I think an eglu trumps fairy lights and home spun bunting in the pimp your tent awards.