Cosmo stylee 'What sort of mn (tent) camper are you?' quiz

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omdb asked for it.

1. My tent is:

A. lighter than a medium sized rabbit B. strong, with a HH of 5000 and many guying points C. A bell tent, natch D. made by a lovely Danish company E. something only of my nightmares

1. My all time camping hero is:

A. Ray Mears. B. Olave Baden Powell C. A sort of amalgamation of Joni Mitchell and Kath Kidson D.This lovely looking family that are not actors E. Michael Winner

1. At night for light I use:

A. headtorch B. headtorch plus wind up lantern C. solar powered fairy lights and the moon D. EHU Mo Fo lantern E. I switch on the lights at the wall

1. I like to sit on:

A. My arse B. The sturdy lids of my sturdy plastic boxes C. My ragtaggle of charmingly mismatched cushions D. Reclining Delux fold-away arm chairs E. Whatever chair is nearest my bottom

1. My camping footwear of choice is:

A. Whatever shoes I have gone camping in. Extra shoes are for the weak. B. Crocs (no consideration given to colourway) C. Bare feet, or moroccan slippers in the tent D. Crocs (some consideration givien to colourway - well I don't want them to clash with my set up, not that I'd ever admit that mind) E.

1. My pants are:

A. Donned in a supine position B. Extremely sensible with a reinforced double stitched gusset C. Made of hemp D. Stored in my in tent foldaway wardrobe E.

1. Of an evening I enjoy

A. Going to the pub, there's only so much fun to be had in a 2 man tent B. Tensioning my guys C. Doing wholesome things around a campfire D. Sitting in my add on porch (large 2008 model) drinking rose from the matching wine glasses E. Being anywhere other than on a campsite

1. My most favorite bit of camping kit is:

A. The trangia stove B. The delta peg C. umm bunting? no that tea light chandelier thing, no wait, a hen, a real hen, several hens D. The tent carpet E. you are all freaks

9.Windbreaks are:
A. The work of the devil
B. Useful for cooking behind if securely pitched with additional guys
C. fugly, unless made of faux weathered cotton canvas (cream)
D. Totally matching my armchairs, sleeping bags and fruitbowl
E. for the beach

10. My personal camping moto is: A. Less is more B. Safety First C. At one with nature D. We should have bought the bigger roofbox E. Camping is shit

I am mainly Bs and Cs . Well My DH is Bs all the way and I am lots of annoying Cs with some Ds. We have mismatched cushions, matching plastic kitsch wine glasses, vintage glass tea light holders and a home made vintage ticking wind break! Then we have head torches at night, a very functional camping stove, and many a study plastic box.

We just bought some enamel plates etc for this year - classic white with blue rims. I am not sure what category they fall into. Apparently Ray Mears or someone said enamel was better than plastic (cos easier to clean) but they do look a bit glampy - what do you think?

glampy. nothing wrong with that

We have enamel tin mugs for steaming cups of tea in the morning and coffee with baileys in the evenings!

Surely Caravanning hero is Margaret Beckett, non?

All Cs and Ds.

we have mugs too
Can't WAIT!

oh fuck, apparantely I am C. But can i say in my defence I am Old-Skool Glamper. I am old, I have done minimialist on a motorbike, , my kids are older now, we had a camper van and we do festival so all the stuff is just 'around'. Including the LED fairy lights......

Bs and Ds, with a history of As. Aspire to glamping but there is not enough room in the car, plus dh would go mad if I filled the tent with fairy lights, he is A and B

Mixture of B and A.
Less is more mainly because we haven't bought (can not afford) a roof box.
We can not
go to the pub as there are 2 small people in the tent asleep so we scored a D for drinking rose, without the porch.

Thanks, that was great!

Oh that's great!
'c's

We do Pimms and ginger beer on arrival for tent pitching ease.

Mostly d's here

OP - where did you get that picture of me and my family?!

We are A's, great, have never got an A in anything. Might put that on my C.V.

Love your quiz slubber.

tarantula - these here are delta pegs or delta ground anchors to give them their proper name .

There is almost a religious devotion to them on ukcs.

I was fully converted after reading BadKitten's testimonial about them a few years back. Without them she and all her family would have been blown away into the sea.

I never leave home without them now

Thank you Fliight for your post

badkitten's delta peg story

i a not a caravanner. i have a van and we count cliff richard in his holiday bus amoungst our heros!

I know I know I know

can't you just lump yourself in with the utilitarians. You have a thing for plastic boxes too iirc.

wait.....

you don't have a telly in your van do you?

feck off! course not!

Rather too many Ds! But never Crocs, flip flops or wellies.

I have those enamel plates with the blue rim, does that make me a Glamper?

phew @ no telly. and hey mrs there is a thread with your name on it in the camping topic.

Enamel plates are uncatagorisable I think. Don't they make the food go cold more quickly though?

D's all the way except for the fairy lights

Just rereading the quiz. I love it.
The hens bit is so funny

I've joined this thread late but I love the quiz! We only started camping as a family last summer but I can already recognize all these very distinct types!

I seem to linger mostly around the B's with the occasional, slightly wistful yearning towards C.

Which reminds me, last summer I saw some actual, real glampers - I'd thought they only existed in magazine shoots - but there they were - about 4 bell tents, with an amazing Glastonbury-style canvas awning covering the central plaza of their encampment and ACTUAL bunting, with mismatched painted wooden chairs (with hotchpotch floral cushions, natch) and proper wine glasses and everything. My friend and I were so astonished we had to walk around their set up about five times to take it all in!

Tikkabilla - I have never seen full on glampers in action either. I'm not suprised you walked round their set up so many times. It sounds amazing (and although I hate to admit it rather lovely) - A Canvas PLAZA eh? cor