SLUBBER! I know you're around.....

[Poledra]

...please can you come and help me with my sponge cakes? I have tried numerous recipes, but always seem to end up with something that you could use as a safety mat in a playground . Hey, the kids still eat it, mind.

Anyway, could it be my crap oven that prevents my sponge cakes from becoming the soft pillows of loveliness I know they should be? Or is there something else I need to know? As Queen of the High Sift, I know you will have the answer.

Depends on the size of your cool box .

We've got an tiny coolbox atm and I can fit probably a couple of days worth of food stuffs that need keeping cool in it (milk, bit of butter, bacon, chicken). Everything else just goes in a plastic box with a lid. I don't mind buying new food every few days. Unless you are camping near a town it makes you buy locally and often you can find interesting butchers, fishmongers or you stop at funny farms with POTATOE'S (with the green grocer's apostrophe) on a cardboard sign out the front.

Makes the whole thing a bit more adventurous.

Saying that I'm probably going to buy one of these bad boys which claim to be ten day iceboxes, so I can keep my wine and beer chilled.

Your dds will love it, guarranteed. I particulary enjoy evenings. Normal bedtime routines go out the window and they are charging around until it gets dark. Then they fall into bed, go to sleep like that and then.....hahahahahaha [hysterical laughter] they SLEEP IN.

Proper sleep in, like past 9am sleep in.

This NEVER happens at any other time.

No housework and a lie in. What's not to like?

Sorry

Last post is a bit twatty.

Buying muddy spuds is not really very adventurous.

Wasn't twatty - made me larf, and have fantastical visions of me (dressed in something like this), floating into artisan food shops buying interesting foods to make fascinating meals at the campsite - yeah right!

1. I do not float - I stomp
2. Am most likely to be wearing jeans and walking boots
3. I can see pasta featuring heavily in my campsite menus

lol

You see the occasional inspirational glampery ad about with women and sometimes even children dressed in white floaty numbers going about wholesome outdoor pursuits. I often wonder if the company or ad people have ever even been to a campsite in the UK.

This is what British campers wear:
a lot of fleece
Crocs
Tracksuit bottoms
Pyjamas until gone 11am
Mismatching waterproofs
The same t shirt 4 days in a row.

NO WHITE.

I pity the fool who wears white when camping.