Glamping Accessories

[bramblebooks]

For the benefit of slubber really, but today I accidentally got lost on the way to mum's house and ended up at the Emma Bridgewater discount factory shop.

I now have more delicious glamping accessories: lovely plastic tumblers with spots, hearts, union jacks; a huge union jack mug for morning tea (this will match my union bunting); stacking cake tins for hearty walk-sustaining fruit cake and a tea towel. Other items may have made it into the shopping bags too, but I think I can smuggle them onto the dresser before dh spots them.

dear oh dear oh dear

A mug to match your bunting???

This may mean a parting of the ways in terms of our neighbourly relationship.

I will probably have to shun you in the playground.

oh yes. A little plastic one and a v. large pint mug for morning tea.

I could always line them up neatly though.

doesn't your bunting match your mug, slubber?

My friend arrived at a un"glamp" campsite with an ice bucket. No bunting though .

No there is no mug-bunting matching.

Mugs are orange melamine circa 1971.

to the bunting

ah. my parents' camping mugs are orange melamine circa 1971. Many happy memories.

So are you telling me that you camp using vintage products?

Sorry, I crashed a private thread .

Not at all niggle, please join the retro glamness mixed with taut tent lines

no such thing as a private thread niggle

yeah bramble, my mugs are proper vintage, with my maiden name nailvarnished on the bottom from when I took them to Guide camp.

I would actually love a huge mug for the first tea of the day. I will need something extremely sensible and not matchy at all though.

slubber I have passed on my pale blue Guide camp melamine mug with my surname (my real one, not this married one) onto dd1 for Brownie pack holidays. It says 'Made In England' on the bottom and we have egg cups in orange melamine to match.

Our tent is about as glamping as we get - can't fit anything else in!
well maybe a couple of tealight holders.

aww. I like the thought of our daughters using our old mugs on camp. gives me the warm fuzzies.

oh btw Lucy, have you ever camped at Bala? There are a few sites with good reviews on ukcs but I wondered if you had a seal of approval for any of them as Home Farm was so lovely.

I thought of you when we were at the Ty Coch the other day.

No we haven't camped at Bala although it does look lovely - I think an evening once spent there in my youth being eaten alive by Welsh mozzies has put me off.

tbh we can't do much weekend camping - nobody ever told me how much time children's sporting activities takes up!

oh and at you at Ty Coch - did you have a pint on the beach?

oh and Elsie is gorgeous - is she allowed en Cabanon?

I would have had a pint on the beach had it not been chucking it down with syphilitic rain and the wind blowing the dds over
I had a fortifying pint inside and looked at the beach.

That was the only really bad day for us weather wise. We've all come home sunburnt (well faces and dh's bald spot).

We're doing a week at Nantcol falls first so thought a second week in Bala on the way back might be fun (and closer to home should the need arise to abandon ship in august).

she will be allowed en cabanon once continence is reliably established and maintained

I have packed the boot of the car in advance of our weekend camping trip. It is full and there is only me and the DC. And I haven't packed our clothes or any food yet

I have no room for glamping accessories - too many blankets at this time of year!

blimey, car packing on a monday for the weekend is very 7 Ps MrsB
(prior preparation and planning prevents piss poor performance)

are you sure you are not a utilitarian with such forethought?

I've given up on packing food (apart for 1st night dinner). There are always shops to be had.

Nantcol Falls looks lovely - somebody linked to it on here didn't they?

We're back down the Dorset at Whit - I can't stay away from the River Cottage Canteen in Axminster on the off chance that I might one day actually meet Hugh.

and the fish and chips on the beach at Lyme Regis is fab too.

'down the Dorset' is of course to Dorset very rural that accent.

and agree re the local shopping - my bit towards sustainable tourism.
(of course that doesn't include Morrisons in Bridport )

Slubber - would that I were 7Ps!

It's just that the shed made the mattress go mouldy so I didn't want to put the rest of the stuff in there until I sort it out a bit. And it was taking up most of the living room. I can't be the only person who uses their boot as a sort of mobile cupboard can I?

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We only do one night food too- we go to the local butchers and buy their yummy amrinated kebabs, or we marinade salmon in coconut and lime then freeze, if a longish journey it defrosts on way and is scrum

However first trip for us not until 7th MAy as DH has exams- boo. He's also working extra hours. What for? An Outwell Teepee to go with the Sun Valley for weekends.

typical LOL

Mugs matching bunting? no! I just take my home mugs, hate drinking out of melamine or plastic. Sadly my new ones may er- coordinate with bunting. Please don't tell DH.

Howdy not-Peachy!

'amrinated'is that Welsh?

we have mugs from home too - although iirc they are actually ones bought from Woolworths in Pwhelli one year when we'd forgotten to take some with us.
Mine has Smarties on it

a teepee!!

MIne are nice M&S mugs with pretty little birds on

which is why Dh loathes them LOL, he wanted black graphic things

You must be a ind reader Luce, I looked at my typing on a thread earlier and thought I should just say it's Welsh. Would be easier