Festival Essentials ??
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
So you can sit with the other 8000 has-beens around the top of the hill
Have got some P20 sorted
Got that sorted too
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
You should have been more organised cos I've got shit loads and you could have had a spare or two
FFSYou should have been more organised cos I've got shit loads and you could have had a spare or two
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Anyone recommend a good/cheap/light/thin airbed? A neighbour was going to lend me one but her dog bit it
I suppose it is a good investment
Think about a "self inflating camping mat" instead of an airbed - They pack better/thinner than the lightest airbed and tend to be able to take more abuse too.
You should be able to pick-up one of a variety od budget brands for around twenty quid or go for very expensive brands like Thermarest, which do pack smaller and lighter. Either way, they are brilliant - and if you need more support than the self-inflation supplies, simply blow a little more air-in.
Cheers pogofishThink about a "self inflating camping mat" instead of an airbed - They pack better/thinner than the lightest airbed and tend to be able to take more abuse too.
You should be able to pick-up one of a variety od budget brands for around twenty quid or go for very expensive brands like Thermarest, which do pack smaller and lighter. Either way, they are brilliant - and if you need more support than the self-inflation supplies, simply blow a little more air-in.
Having a look round for one, anyone got a recommendation?
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
I've not dared a climb ladder yet but I am going to have to get into the loft this weekend to get my gear down for a short camping trip at the end of next week - I have one Thermarest mat from my motorbike days and a cheap mat which TBH I prefer as it is slightly more substantial and has a built-in blow-up pillow but still packs small enough to be really convenient. Had it longer than any airbed - maybe over ten years. Think it was a Gelert or Tresspass but I'll check.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I've never been to a festival of any type but from reading this thread the experience seems to be similar to SERE (Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract) training in the forces.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
a brand called Multimat.
my current one was about £20 and its lasted as long anything I've paid 5 times as much for from thermarest. i'm very happy with it and with pretty much no effort if rolls back into its stuff sack, which is about the size of a beer can.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
yes, my mrs got me to one early in our relationship and it reminded me - forcefully - of living in patrol base in Sangin, Afghanistan in 2006. though Sangin had cleaner water and fewer twats with guitars. the food was better as well.
Went to the supermarket and got a few food bits
Tinned ravioli, macaroni cheese and soup
Hungarian meat sticks and some Peperami
Pot Noodles and some 'Maggi' noodles
Cereal bars and Breakaways
Crikey, you weren't joking when you said you were doing it on a budget.
On essentials I have found as I get older an air bed, ear plugs and an eye mask are essential. The combination means I can usually drown at most of the late night chaos, so I can peacefully enjoy the inevitable night terrors. Just sort of lie there, occasionally twitching.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
You say that but...
One of yours I believe.
he had to get a new one after the original, which was strapped the back of his Little Tank, was accidentally and tragically damaged beyond repair by a passing crew member with a hammer as he rolled into Kosovo. it was a running joke in his Troop. as each new replacement was strummed, a new and more elaborate tragic and accidental method of destroying was hatched.
of course, the big difference is that Blunt is both quite good and takes the piss out of himself, whereas the festival strummer is a tedious, deluded soap-dodging cunt who's only doing it so he can get into someones knickers.
Yup I know exactly the sort, met him a thousand times. The sort of arse that spent his entire gap year in Thailand and the only thing he traveled with was his guitar, one vest, one pair of shorts and dad's credit card.
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
Think about a "self inflating camping mat" instead of an airbed - They pack better/thinner than the lightest airbed and tend to be able to take more abuse too.
You should be able to pick-up one of a variety od budget brands for around twenty quid or go for very expensive brands like Thermarest, which do pack smaller and lighter. Either way, they are brilliant - and if you need more support than the self-inflation supplies, simply blow a little more air-in.
Be aware if you leave it anywhere hot when you come back you will find a very odd shaped beach ball that made the neighbours leap when it delaminates and went bang
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
Impressive..! I never managed to make mine do that.
The other good thing about camping mats is that if the worst does happen and you pop them, the foam matrix or whatever inside them does still provide a little padding to the ground.
Top tip get a light coloured one. Black ones properly absorb heat and fully unzip
