Hey!! all you TENT FANATICS, over here please.......

[LadyTophamHatt]

This year we are going to start buying camping equipment for future holidays, been camping pre-kids and always went on camping holidays as a child.

Ok, Dh thinks we should get a big frame tent. I'm sure you know the thing I mean. Big window at the front, 2 layers of canvas.
I prefer the big dome tents, they look so much more 21st century for a start.

Which is better?

Also if you have any other helpful hints and tips of stuff to add to our list I'd be grateful.

Top tip for if it rains:

Go boogy-boarding. We had a rainy yet fantastic holiday in North Devon a few years ago. You don't get cold and being wet doesn't matter.

Was a top tip given to me by a lady at the washing up area who had been boogy boarding whilst 4 months pregnant and said she had had lots of fun but felt like a weeble!

Thanks I was worried I had missed something vital :)

You can scramble eggs in a zip loc bag? Sally, you are hard core - respect

OK SS, you've convinced me, where can I buy ziplock bags?

How do you SCRAMBLE EGGS in a zip loc bag????

Oh OK, I am lazier than you then, I melt the butter and throw in the egss and swirl them around quickly with a fork to mix them and the milk. I don't bother with a bowl. Or I do them in a cup that I swill out quickly.

Keep the ideas coming though I am impressed with the ss guide to zip-loc bags and will atke some this year to confirm if they revolutionise my camping experience.

strawb - how did I MANAGE before seeing your 101 things to do with a zip-lock bag? I am converted!

Now do your assignment woman.

We don't want you back in that cupboard of yours now do we?!

no no no to the zip lock bags. what happened to conserving plastic bag use for the good of the planet? am obsessive re-user of plastic bags. take the ones you already have from shopping. lots of them. and tupperware for putting food in.

fennel with a plastic bag conservation fetish.

agree about the thermarests, Kaloo20, very comfy and so easy.

ok washing and reusing them is acceptable

but tupperware is lovely and stacks into itself.