Camping Porn

[Pieface]

The camping stove has landed......

and all the instructions are in chinese.




I'm going to take it to the camping shop down the road and get them to show me how to do it.

Now the pans

 

[Stig]

Two ways! Two ways! Two ways!

I just bought the smaller version of that. A lot lighter, and let's face it I don't need to park a horse in it so I don't need to be dragging a marquee around.

Two ways! Brilliant. Might even survive the heat of womad without being forced out of a burning oven at 6am.

 

[Stig]

Don't get me started on boots:D

[IMG]http://www.fieldandtrek.com//images/products/12488_l.jpg


gets tissues

I've got a pair of those!


I prefer my army surplus paraboots though really.

 

[Idaho]

and all the instructions are in chinese.




I'm going to take it to the camping shop down the road and get them to show me how to do it.

Now the pans

It's pretty easy. The trivet clips onto the top of the legs, then you twist the gas valve onto your can of gas.

You should be able to work it out from the pictures - there is only three parts to it!

 

[wiskey]

and all the instructions are in chinese.

i'm going to frame the destructions that came with our stove, from english to mandarin & back again quality

 

[wiskey]

i discovered something this weekend - if you lick a red swan match head and rub it over a mosquito bite it stops itching.

 

[Pieface]

It's pretty easy. The trivet clips onto the top of the legs, then you twist the gas valve onto your can of gas.

You should be able to work it out from the pictures - there is only three parts to it!

well the man in the shop was trying to demonstrate with a can that wasn't by Camping Gaz and couldn't get it on. Started trying to shove it on and I was yelling "stop it! I only have that one and you might break it!!!"

It seems that people in places like Blacks and Millets don't know what they are talking about at all.

SO I have the advised can of gaz

Where the fuck are my pans!?

 

[rennie]

Where the fuck are my pans!?

kitchen?

 

[moose]

i discovered something this weekend - if you lick a red swan match head and rub it over a mosquito bite it stops itching.

Do you end up with painted red spots all over you, though?

 

[wiskey]

It seems that people in places like Blacks and Millets don't know what they are talking about at all.

of course not. they sell to people who buy labels.

you want to go camping without a 4x4, i doubt they had any good advice at all

 

[wiskey]

Do you end up with painted red spots all over you, though?

sort of. not very noticeable as i'd already scratched the bite to fuck.

it stops it itching, i dont care how i look.

 

[Crispy]

if you lick a red swan match head and rub it over a mosquito bite it stops itching.

That's proper mears, that is

 

[wiskey]

oh bugger is it?

he's such a pompous twat.

 

[Dubversion]

oh bugger is it?

he's such a pompous twat.

Spending 4 hours making a spoon using an array of tools which, if let behind, could have let room for a fucking cutlery set.

 

[wiskey]

Spending 4 hours making a spoon using an array of tools which, if let behind, could have made room for a fucking cutlery set.

true

its more the fact that he feels the need to make the most extravagant and useless of items that bothers me. if stranded in the wilds why on earth would one want to spend all day making a knife handle out of bone when frankly walking to safety might be a better option.

 

[Pieface]

I wouldn't have wanted to sit next to him at school but I do quite like his funny programmes where he gets sandals made out of twigs and cooks things in seaweed pockets.

It's funny that it doesn't matter what he's doing, he always looks a bit of a twerp while he's doing it

 

[Idaho]

Don't dis the Mears! He rocks!

He's just not a cool alpha male type. He's a nerd, yet a physical nerd.

 

[Idaho]

SO I have the advised can of gaz

You need CV270 gaz for that stove btw.

 

[Crispy]

Pffft. Mears is great. His early programmes had all the proper survival stuff in. These days he mostly just goes to interesting places and gets all wilderness hippy about getting back to nature. When he's not on telly and back in the woods on his own, I doubt he makes a single spoon.

 

[vipper]

of course not. they sell to people who buy labels.

you want to go camping without a 4x4, i doubt they had any good advice at all

They sell these in Cotswold Gear in Kingston:

I've always thought it was a bit odd, if you were going to go somewhere you really needed a pair of boots like that you wouldn't be buying them in Cotswold fucking Gear!

Unless you need them to climb up the running board on your 4x4.

 

[nightowl]

last time i had to buy stuff i found field and trek better value than cotswold

 

[aqua]

actually the guys in our local millets are alright, they;re all either ex scouts or leaders now so can advise really well

the ones I've spoken to anyway

other than that I go to ask bees he knows lots too

 

[wiskey]

well we're all packed for our next camping trip this afternoon

now i just need to find a carthorse to carry all my stuff

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

trailer???

 

[wiskey]

what would i attach it too?

and how would i get it down the tube

 

[Pieface]

Where the FUCK are my pans!?

 

[wiskey]

Where the FUCK are my pans!?

lol - i dont know what time you get post but it never comes before 12 here.

if they dont turn up you can borrow some of ours if you like

 

[Pieface]

excellent

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

what would i attach it too?

and how would i get it down the tube

You buy a bike and dont use the tube

 

[wiskey]

You buy a bike and dont use the tube

hehehehe

my legs would fall off

(actually there is a thread on the oxfam forum asking if anybody fancies cycling to the festival - i said i'd buy the bloke a beer when he arrived)