I met Derek Attenburrow at Scott’s Farm while revisiting the Witterings. Derek and his partner Ellen were very interested in our Bell Tent set-up. He’s subsequently been in touch and sent some camping photographs from many years ago when he used to go farm camping with a group on May the first. A forwarding...
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Last year I’d mentioned how Math’s Doctor Simon Walsh had cooked us up top tucker mucker treat at Wowo on an improvised skillet. He’d seen something similar being used on a beach in Spain, and so we ended up enjoying some mouth watering marinated prawns and calamari with beansprouts and noodles and grilled field...
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After having had my kids put the Bell Tent UK Inner Tent through its paces (see Bell Tent Improvements) I thought it only fair that I got them to help me test out the additional bag I was very kindly sent by Tobyn along with a TEAR-AID patch. As you can see they are...
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No camping trip is complete without cake. The glucose-based Kendal Mint Cake is popular with the more hardy types that go climbing and hiking. If you are glamping it up, however, then it’s got to be cup cakes, which means you’ll also need a stand. My wife is keen cake maker and was given...
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Thanks to Chris Toombes for pointing me to this piece on How To Plan the Nerdiest Camping Trip Ever. Personally, I like to keep the consumer electronics to a minimum when I’m ‘out there’ glamping it, but can understand why those that go camping/hiking might want some additional GPS type apps to enhance their...
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When we first bought our 5m Ultimate Bell Tent we bought an additional Inner Tent thinking that there would be one area for my wife and I to sleep in, and the kids could sleep in the other area with everything else. What actually happens is the kids want to sleep in the inner...
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It’s less than a day now until around 100 of us from the Five Ways area of Brighton head off over to Wowo in Uckfield and I’ve started to pack the car with still loads more to be crammed in. Looks like there’s going to be a lot going on while we are there,...
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I doubt this Ronnie Sunshines’ Western Styled Dutch Oven Boxed Set would fit into the back pack of Matthew De Abaitu of Cath and Math go camping blog. It would, however, go well with my Bell Tent. At over 14kg I think I might also have to invest in some kind of trolley for...
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I bought a large Vango Thermos Flask from Johns Camping International in Brighton a year ago. It recently sprung a leak as the screw fit cap fitting has cracked. I wanted to see if I could get replacement part, which I was happy to pay for. It’s actually difficult to identify as there’s not...
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I had been seriously thinking about buying a Kelly Kettle until my architect mate Julian Cripps mentioned this stainless steel wood burning water heater from Turkey that’s available on eBay here. It’s around 70 quid and can heat around 4 and half litres of water. A standard Kelly Kettle is around 40 quid and...
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