tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post4003926758178721642..comments2024-02-09T06:24:16.626+00:00Comments on upside down in cloud: signs of the timesDru Marlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-11740912403997628002008-03-23T06:16:00.000+00:002008-03-23T06:16:00.000+00:00My lightweight tent is a Phoenix Phreak, and it's ...My lightweight tent is a Phoenix Phreak, and it's tiny and nice, and, like all ridge tents, apparently no longer available unless you get lucky on e-bay.<BR/><BR/>I would ask how on earth you can manage to spend £2500 on camping gear, but I was looking at the Tentipi range a while back because I quite fancy the retro/hippie thing (we used to have a couple of old bell tents on our earliest expeditions)....cor, you could have knocked me down with a fevver.<BR/><BR/>I like "pork-fed people". *jots it down in book of useful phrases*Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-52068135590963549802008-03-21T22:59:00.000+00:002008-03-21T22:59:00.000+00:00This is a message from one Modern Family That Camp...This is a message from one Modern Family That Camps. We've always camped. At first, in a tent that was probably stolen, with nothing but an elderly sleeping bag between us and the cold ground. No airbed, no bloomin' groundsheet even. We now realise we've perhaps gone a bit far the other way, what wiv the kitchen sink an' all. I've recently been looking at small tents with a view to some swift guerrilla camping before our knees finally give out and we have to find a granny-tent. I saw a fine one of those in 2006 with a Dutch granny in. Tall tent, camp bed, table, chair and crossword .. and the grandchildren camped on the other side of the river. Nice, I thought.<BR/><BR/>There's definitely a new breed of camper though, among the pork-fed people. I met one chap with brand new top of the range camping gear (though shalt not covet thy neighbour's tent) who had gone out and spent £2500 when his kids (5 & 7 ish) begged him to take them camping and canoing and noooot to St Lucia <I> again </I>. £2500 represented what he would have spent every year taking them on exotic holidays. <BR/>Any more questions, please *do* ask.bramblejamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11453752693542723307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-65071725875751401102008-02-27T12:42:00.000+00:002008-02-27T12:42:00.000+00:00*shhhhh* I made the bench, then he sat on it.........*shhhhh* <I>I</I> made the bench, then <I>he</I> sat on it....<BR/><BR/>...my bum remained dry thanks to the coat I was sitting on. It's very easy to get wet in the Great Outdoors, but bloomin' hard to get dry again.Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-91211042898485114952008-02-27T12:05:00.000+00:002008-02-27T12:05:00.000+00:00He's no fool is he that Richard ... making himself...He's no fool is he that Richard ... making himself a nifty little bench to sit on, you on the other hand don't seem to much mind a wet bottom.sadferrethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12248432888214631742noreply@blogger.com