Glamping

[ilovemydogandmrobama]

What do I need to know? Have been invited for a week glamping with friends (and about 10 children)

[chevre]

the bar on pimping up your tent has been significally raised on this thread.

i have my own pale gangly child with messy hair and tadpole fixation so i am waaaay ahead of you all.

[ilovemydogandmrobama]

Wonders if Lilymaid would be so kind as to re link chandelier please?

[Fennel]

I have two skinny children with wild tangly blonde hair, one of them I think looks like the girls in a Fatface catalogue. They like minibeasts too. That's about the limit of my qualifications for Glamping though - tanglehaired bugloving offspring. I don't think it's enough.

[northmetking]

We've been trawling charity shops since Christmas for colourful blankets, tea-light holders, nice proper china plates etc and I've been making some bunting from a bag of material we got from Freecycle; I wouldn't call it glamping because it's all second-hand, bargain basement stuff, but it's heightened the anticipation of going, and kept us excited about our summer camping since Christmas. It will just make our little temporary home that little bit more homely while we're there.

[troutpout]

No ...you've failed Fennel.
I also have mad haired girl child. I grub her up before we go usually for the desired effect
She doesn't have a thing for tadpoles or insects though...but i'll slap it into her somehow.
Nah..I am too untidy and slovenly for proper glamping anyway...all that casual (but deliberate) garnishing. I can't even do it at home...let alone in a blardy tent!
Can't be arsed if truth be told.

[chevre]

i prefer to go for the germanic efficiencey look. you know, popping out of the shower block at 7am in my rohan gear having run 10 miles up a moutain.

[modrin]

i mentioned this the other day but will say again check out Jollydays gorgeous glamping btw my garden has bunting and it looks lovely and has a holdiay feel

[Slubberdegullion]

I am with you chevre. I like a nice tight ship/tent. Everything is very practical and serious and at right angles if I can get it that way. My dds would have tangly hair if I let it go free. Instead they have sensible plaits under their sensible hats. They do like insects and wormy things though.

[chevre]

yes everything must be grey or kaki and slightly reminiscent of lufthansa

[Slubberdegullion]

Alles ist im Ordnung is what dh calls me.

I love labelled,stacked plastic boxes too.

"where are the size two klingons darling?"

"They are in the red-label stacked plastic box darling, on the left in the utility"

"ahh yes, thank you darling"

You wouldn't get that sort of conversation in a glamped tent. oh no. there would be tension, crisis and drama.

[bramblebooks]

Thinking that my house would give slubber heart failure ;)

I like to think that a glamping tent would be chilled out in a marc bolan sort of hot-flush-inducing bohemian stylee.

[chevre]

lots of collapseable boxes with handles for 'impromptu storage'.

[Fennel]

um, if my tanglehaired artistically grubby children have insects and wormy things living on their hair and bodies, does that NOT count? Do they have to nourish insecty and wormy things in jamjars, not cultivated on their bodies?

(am slipping further from the glamping ideal, aren't I?)

[chevre]

i think you are auditioning for a zombie film

[Slubberdegullion]

bramble your house is lovely .

Oh the glampers are all jolly and tangly haired while the weather is fine, but when the weather takes a turn for the worse and the rain lashes down and the gales blow I bet there is a great waily wailing and much twisted knicker sydrome.

My plastic boxes remain ordered and calm.

[chevre]

yes all those unattched guy ropes and sheep skins will come back adn bit them on the bum

[Slubberdegullion]

Fennel er no, you are way off course dear.

[Slubberdegullion]

urgh a sodden sheepskin. bleurgh.

[Lilymaid]

For those who requested after my last link failed: camping chandelier.

[chevre]

that is really lovely [begrudging emoticon]

[Slubberdegullion]

ooooooooooh that is so pretty damn it.

They do look lovely those tents. I love how you can roll up the sides to get a breeze through

[chevre]

i think i am just jealous cos glamping would not work in scotland.
a. it is too damm bright you would ahve to wait until aobut 11 for dusk to admire the tea lights
b. and then alll the midgies in teh world would come to feast by the pretty lights.

[chevre]

i would quite like it in my kitchen.

[kathyis6incheshigh]

When is someone going to make a tv comedy drama about an everything-goes-wrong glamping trip? Lots of opportunity for social satire. Nuts in May for the 21st century.