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Subject Topic: honestly how many would pitch inthe house
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05/4/2009 at 8:42pm
 Location: North Warwickshire
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Ermmhh, I have to confess I have pitched a tent in my living room more than once

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I'd rather be camping

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05/4/2009 at 8:44pm
 Location: EAST SUSSEX
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Bought 2 small tents for £10 each in Wilkos - pitched them in the kids rooms and they slept in them for a few nights 2 years ago. Can't get the 12-man up in the house and the boys now share a room so that they can have a playroom so there's no room indoors anymore. Sadly we will just have to sleep in the garden again...

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05/4/2009 at 8:51pm
 Location: Somercotes Derbyshire.
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Quote: Originally posted by lentrott on 05/4/2009
Last year we camped at the Glastonbury Festival......er, well actually we put the pop up tent up in the living room with the door facing the telly and watched it on BBC2!...and yes, we did 'stay' overnight!

Fantastic and I applaud you.



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05/4/2009 at 9:44pm
 Location: sussex
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Yes, When I was a singleton.

 I put my 2man eurohike tent up in my room at the YMCA in Bratislava to dry it out and effect a repair after a German tried park their caravan on top of my tent in prague the previous evening, I woke up in the night and smacked my head on their tow hook  (I expanded my school boy vocab that night).

 

Len trott We applaud you too

 



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05/4/2009 at 10:53pm
 Location: Bolton Lancs
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Yes, I did last year when we cancelled our 5-day Easter break because of snow and high winds. Put the 2-man dome tent up in the living room and 'camped' for three days out of the five - it was brill!

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05/4/2009 at 11:31pm
 Location: anywhere but here
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 Yes, I've tried out my smaller tents in the living room. As has been said, its not possible to bring a tent home and wait to try it in the garden,instant gratification, thats me!

Trick is not to put a pole through the tele.



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06/4/2009 at 12:05am
 Location: North east
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I have  and ive slept in it  too !



06/4/2009 at 12:40am
 Location: Hull East Yorkshire
 Outfit: VANGO TAMOR 500 (yet to be tested)
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Quote: Originally posted by briff on 05/4/2009

Yes, When I was a singleton.

 I put my 2man eurohike tent up in my room at the YMCA in Bratislava to dry it out and effect a repair after a German tried park their caravan on top of my tent in prague the previous evening, I woke up in the night and smacked my head on their tow hook  (I expanded my school boy vocab that night).

lmao at that one, could have been the potential for an international incident there!!!!!!

 

 



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06/4/2009 at 2:11am
 Location: Coventry
 Outfit: Cabanon Elody & Julie & Combicamp
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Yes, I've put small tents up in the lounge to check them out - when the weather was too bad to pitch in the garden.

I also used two carpenters horses to hold up half the frame of our canvas tent in the lounge in January whilst I was adapting a Lichfield canopy to fit our Cabanon tent - I needed to shorten the width & lengthen the depth, so the best way to get it exact was to pin it while it was on the canopy poles which were attached to the half a frame

In February, when the lawn was really soggy, I also used planks of wood across the top of two beams in a bedroom, to hold the inner tent of our smaller Cabanon up, so that I could mark up a 'D' shaped door ready to cut & also to fit a no-see-um mesh door to the bedroom pod. It was much easier to get the shape of the door right while the pod was hanging as it does in the tent, rather than just guess the shape whilst cutting it on a table. 



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06/4/2009 at 8:05am
 Location: cumbria
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We regularly pitch in the garden and have done inside.  We have a little 3 man tent for kids to play in and often camp in it over the winter.  We've had our vango up in the garden all weekend.  Is this not normal behaviour for campers?? lol


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06/4/2009 at 8:19am
 Location: Stoke-on-Trent
 Outfit: Compass Kensington + Octavia 4x4
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We've put up our Quechua base in the kitchen because we couldn't wait to see it open even though we'd seen them at Decathlon!

Our Dandy won't fit in the house but has been up all winter on the patio (the closest to the house that we could get it) I've slept in it a few nights with my 8 yr old daughter.

Andi


06/4/2009 at 9:42am
 Location: Hertfordshire
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Got to say that we have pitched ours in the lounge quite a few times. As it's a canvas tent, and sometimes has to be packed away wet, we find it handy to pitch it in the lounge at night, whack the heating up and take it down dry in the morning. Being an inflatable tent (no poles) this is really convienient for us!

 



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06/4/2009 at 10:14am
 Location: West Yorkshire
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We have a small dome tent bought for playing in and that gets put up in the living room. Couldn't fit our camping tents in the house but if I could they would be up


06/4/2009 at 10:55am
 Location: Yate Bristol
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