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04/6/2013 at 2:09pm
Location: Derby.
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HEAT HOLDERS
I can recommend the thermals and the socks.
The socks are thick and furry. The leggings actually reach your ankles and cover your backside, and the thermal tops are also generous in length, so stay tucked in, with no bare back halfway through the night!
Best place I've found, for prices on the high street, is Yeoman's.
Add the odd balaclava, a fisherman's 5 season sleeping bag, camp bed & SIM combo, a slug o' Baileys, and the love of a good woman, and you can lie back, and laugh in the face of the 2 inches of snow on your tent!! 
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04/6/2013 at 4:50pm
Location: Severn Valley
Outfit: Aztec Galeria 4 Outwell Virginia 5
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I've still got the old carrymats my kids used to take to scout and guide camp, so I slide those under the double airbed. Then I put a couple of SIMS on top, then a layer of the white, opaque plastic sheeting you get in packaging, then a big woolly blanket, then a thick winter sheet. Then two hot water bottles, then me and OH, then a big duvet and then another blanket. Our bedding bags do take up a lot of car, but I realise how worth the space they are when it's an hour after bedtime and I'm dropping off cosy and warm instead of freezing. 
I second what Kate has said, the change of clothes, the hot drink (I add a nip of brandy or whisky  ), and the running around the tent are all really good. (If you run around the site, as I once did at Bromyard Folk Festival, make sure you take note of where you are camped. It's no fun at all playing 'seek the tent' in the dark on a full festival field!) 
We've also found that putting in the hot bottles an hour before we turn in takes the edge of cold out of the airbed and makes it just that little bit warmer to start the night.
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04/6/2013 at 6:45pm
Location: East Sussex
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Quote: Originally posted by Mucker1884 on 04/6/2013
HEAT HOLDERS
I can recommend the thermals and the socks.
I got some heat holders socks in Matalan for about £6. They are quite the warmest things I've ever had on my feet.
Are the thermals furry like the socks? If so, I really want some! Think how much I could save on my heating bills this winter with fluffy heat holder thermals....
Dogs on the bed help keep you warm too. Nothing better than snuggling down between a warm dog and a hot man!
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04/6/2013 at 10:52pm
Location: notts
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There was a thread on here about onesies - isn't it funny that no-one has mentioned them at all - obviously not made for the colder nights.
We had a few cold nights recently in yorkshire - for me I had a pair or leggings and a really warm thermal long vest , fleece Pjs, a little fleece short dressing gown, wooly socks, a rabbit hot water bottle and a couple of toddies of whisky. My OH well, he just wore his Pj's - warm blooded you know - we both woke at the same time (6ish - early for us) feeling a little chilly. But on the whole we fared rather well.
Yes I agree about getting into Pjs (whatever) long time before you go to bed - just about then you start thinking of the toddies!
My eldest who camps at festivals and with Guides swears by a nice warm hat! She's got a great collection of weird and wonderful hats!
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04/6/2013 at 11:37pm
Location: Leicestershire
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That fluffy fleece is wonderful heat trapping material, the one that looks like a teddy bear's tummy. Get yourself a track suit set made of that, stick thermal long johns and long sleeved thermal undershirt underneath. Warm wool socks (dry ones) on.
Then if still too cold, consider the same fluffy fleece blanket on top of your sleeping bag, it effectively adds on a season to it.
That is, on top of those tips with those with airbeds: insulation underneath, over the top, and something to hold it in place.
Personally I got tired with air beds breaking, slow set up time etc. so went with camp beds, fold out Vango ones, no assembly required all out the bag and fold out 30 seconds, SIM on top, fleece blanket for comfort, then sleeping bag. Bliss. Cold nights? Add fluffiest blanket on top.
The other thing that people who get cold can do, is to wear too little before going to bed. I'm always, including the Summer season, taking an old down jacket and I wear that in the evenings. And a fluffy fleece hat. I'm lovely toasty warm even before I get to bed.
And I've seen too many women, they're always us women, who feel the cold, in cotton hoodies telling me that camping is too cold for them. I'll tell you, if I was in a cotton hoodie I would also give up camping because it was too cold...
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