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Chat => General => Topic started by: EasterBunny on July 24, 2006, 04:56:14 pm

Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 24, 2006, 04:56:14 pm

I am a camping virgin and will be losing my cherry next week at a campsite in Somerset.  I have this week to get myself sorted and wondered if anyone with a bit more experience has any hint or tips on what to take what not to take, I have been to the camping shop in Norwich and i could have spent a fortune.


So far I have a tent, a gas stove, a picnic hamper without metal cutlery as it got confiscated at a Pet Shop Boys concert I went to on friday.


What else do I really need?

Title: Camping
Post by: phyllisbermann on July 24, 2006, 05:31:36 pm
Stay in a five star hotel instead.
Title: Camping
Post by: smurfboy on July 24, 2006, 06:16:08 pm
Quote from: EasterBunny

So far I have a tent, a gas stove, a picnic hamper without metal cutlery as it got confiscated at a Pet Shop Boys concert I went to on friday.



You didn't get it back at the end?

Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 24, 2006, 06:26:59 pm

We tried but the people who had taken them had disappeared and they were only a couple of quid, unlikely to do a great deal of damage!


 

Title: Camping
Post by: Forth Bridges on July 24, 2006, 08:00:44 pm

Quote from: EasterBunny

I am a camping virgin and will be losing my cherry next week at a campsite in Somerset.



doesn;t that mean she going to have sex fot the very first time?
Title: Camping
Post by: loulou on July 24, 2006, 08:08:56 pm
No it means she is going camping for the very first time.
Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 24, 2006, 08:17:57 pm
Yup, i meant losing my camping cherry.
Title: Camping
Post by: Forth Bridges on July 24, 2006, 08:26:06 pm
oh not your flower cherry 
Title: Camping
Post by: loulou on July 24, 2006, 08:29:07 pm
 Camp Fire 





Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 24, 2006, 09:44:36 pm
ah, so i need marsh mallows!
Title: Camping
Post by: loulou on July 24, 2006, 10:01:35 pm
Do you have a tin opener and some insect repellent?
Title: Camping
Post by: loulou on July 24, 2006, 10:02:02 pm
 Matches and some matches





Title: Camping
Post by: kevvosa on July 24, 2006, 10:10:00 pm
And your mobile phone. 
Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 24, 2006, 11:20:30 pm

I will add them to my list, i had got the tin opener and the matches but not insect repellent, what is better, cream or spray? Or should i get those candles that ward off nasties?

Title: Camping
Post by: Forth Bridges on July 24, 2006, 11:27:46 pm
SPRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO candles!!!!!!!!

toches ONLY!  
Title: Camping
Post by: phyllisbermann on July 25, 2006, 09:57:43 am
I'd forget the tent and check into luxury.
Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 25, 2006, 10:40:37 am
I am staying one night in a spa hotel but that is costing 8 times as much as the campsite.  I am going to look online where the nearest supermarket is to where I'm staying, I don't know how I will manage without a fridge!
Title: Camping
Post by: phyllisbermann on July 25, 2006, 11:51:22 am
Why not stay at the spa for the other nights too?
Title: Camping
Post by: kevvosa on July 25, 2006, 12:20:40 pm
Camping is more fun. Back to nature and all that! 


Title: Camping
Post by: smurfboy on July 25, 2006, 12:31:43 pm

Quote from: phyllisbermann
Why not stay at the spa for the other nights too?


You are just being silly now. Ooh Phyllis, you jolly japester you!

Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 25, 2006, 12:44:39 pm
If I had the money I would Phyllis, although I am coming round to the idea of bonding with nature.  The only trouble is my husband is going all Bruce Parry and mocking my discovery that there is a sainsbury superstore only half a mile away and so we can get fresh food everyday rather than eat crap from a can.  I think the main reason he wants to go is so he can eat stuff we would never normally buy like all day breakfasts in a tin!
Title: Camping
Post by: phyllisbermann on July 25, 2006, 04:21:32 pm
If you send the address of the campsite, I'll post you a nice hamper.
Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 25, 2006, 05:26:47 pm
cheers! no  crap in a can though, some champagne would be nice, you always seem to have plenty of that!
Title: Camping
Post by: kevvosa on July 25, 2006, 06:40:57 pm

Quote from: phyllisbermann
I'll post you a nice hamper.




What will be in it?

Title: Camping
Post by: oldspice on July 25, 2006, 09:03:56 pm

Quote from: phyllisbermann
If you send the address of the campsite, I'll post you a nice hamper.


How kind. What a lovely idea.

Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 26, 2006, 10:50:48 am
I  am curious about that, not chocolate in this heat.  As its Phyllis I'm guessing lashings of Ginger Beer.  I am not a big fan myself but my husband is a big Famous Five fan.
Title: Camping
Post by: oldspice on July 26, 2006, 12:31:26 pm
Ginger Beer is very refreshing in this hot weather.
Title: Camping
Post by: phyllisbermann on July 26, 2006, 12:41:22 pm
The hamper would contain an ice pack, champagne (Pol Roger or Krug), a bottle of Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur, a bar of Green & Blacks, smoked salmon and much much more.  Ginger beer would be substituted for Ginger Ale as I much prefrer this.
Title: Camping
Post by: kevvosa on July 26, 2006, 01:10:46 pm

Quote from: phyllisbermann
Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur




Just call it VDCCL from now on, it saves time

Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 26, 2006, 01:59:52 pm
Phyliss probably has a shortcut key to it!
Title: Camping
Post by: kevvosa on July 26, 2006, 02:05:04 pm

Title: Camping
Post by: phyllisbermann on July 26, 2006, 05:20:29 pm
but then others won't know what I'm on about and think me mad.

I've just ordered another case as I'm running out.  Boo.

Title: Camping
Post by: Freddie on July 27, 2006, 12:32:25 am
Hello Easterbunny..if you have a cooler big enough use it instead of a fridge..you can make the likes of Chili..or Mince (for rolls)ahead of time and freeze them..they come in handy for keeping other things cool like your Chocolate etc..and will slowly thaw out until your ready to heat them up at night to eat round the campfire..another goody for the campfire is..toasted Marshmallows and Chocolate sandwiched between 2 Digestives..
Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on July 27, 2006, 01:02:35 am

Cheers Freddie, chili and mince sounds a bit more ambitious than anything I'm planning, I think it will just be bbq and salad every night and beans for breakfast


The choc/marshmallow sandwiches sound good!


I am now starting to worry about the weather as we had an almighty storm earlier.

Title: Camping
Post by: oldspice on July 27, 2006, 09:30:26 am
It's OK. Just don't clutch the tent pole during a storm.
Title: Camping
Post by: EasterBunny on August 07, 2006, 12:43:38 pm
I'm back and survived the rain.  I managed a week with only cooking twice, luckily we were near all 3 major supermarkets, cinema, bowling, swimming pool, all you can eat Chinese buffet despite being on a farm with horses and everything.  The scrumpy was a bargain and I would thourouhly recommend the site if anyone is thinking of camping in taunton.
Title: Camping
Post by: oldspice on August 07, 2006, 01:48:53 pm
Sounds fantastic. Glad you enjoyed it.
Title: Camping
Post by: loulou on August 07, 2006, 05:44:39 pm
I'm pleased you enjoyed your holiday Easterbunny.