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10/8/2010 at 7:27am
 Location: lancs
 Outfit: coleman marseille 9 juno 500
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we had a fantastic first full week in our tent although we did learn lots aswell!!!

We need a full proper groundsheet in the porch/extension, i just had 3 bits of tarpaulin and we kept tripping over it and it just looked messy.

I need to take some thing to store clothes having one big suitcase was useless for a family of 5, every morning pulling it out to find something for everyone!

I need to keep food in the tent and not the porch/extension as we got lots of ants, so need a cupboard of some sort to keep food in the tent, will still keep the kitchen in the porch/extension but will use the storage bit under in for pots, pans etc.

And last of all i need one of them dog screws for the ground to keep my 16mth daughter on,the times i had to run after her, one minute playing lovely right outside the tent the next gone, i was shattered!!! (joking about this one, but if some ones does know of something to make her stay put id be very gratful!!!!)

Had a great week and the children did not want to come home, we stayed at st leonards farm in bournemouth and will defo go there again, will write a review on here, lovely basic site clean and very flat, very hard ground though had to rush out for rock pegs!


10/8/2010 at 7:39am
 Location: Seaforth Liverpool
 Outfit: Marechal Vintage Tent & Static Caravan
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glad to hear that you had a good time,
campings all about learning, we still learn something on every trip after years and years of trips....

when we take the grandchildren we put their clothes in a small holdall, saves going through ours to find them

ants will still get into a cupboard, we use snap lid boxes for food storage, they are expensive to buy a load at once, so we just got a few at a time in different sizes, shapes etc, i then make sure we have all sorts of supplies and goodies wrapped up in them,

16mth olds are great to camp with but very tiring, we take an extra adult to help run around with them

but best of all most trips its just me and the OH, our grown up kids nd the g-kids dont come with us on most trips....the joys of being an older camper..lol

sharon




10/8/2010 at 7:48am
 Location: Dudley West Midlands
 Outfit: Outwell Montana 6
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We are a family of 2 adults, 3 kids and a dog and experienced the same problem with clothes.  Me and hubby seemed to manage with one big holdall but for the girls got them a holdall each - each one a different colour and then they knew that was there's at a quick glance.  Also in the tent pods put a pop up laundry basket for each of them and they put there clothes in there whilst on site for the week or whatever.  Again different colours for each of them.  These are the holdalls I use.  Cheap and massive and happens to come in three colours and folds into its own pocket when not in use

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80176444



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10/8/2010 at 8:12am
 Location: lancs
 Outfit: coleman marseille 9 juno 500
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Ohhh them bags look ideal, will have to get myself off to ikea!! Thank you


10/8/2010 at 10:54am
 Location: Sauchie Scotland
 Outfit: Outwell Wolf Lake 7
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We used those bags this year and they were brilliant. We do have a wardrobe type thingy in the tent but for a long stay can't fit everything in, so underwear and pyjamas stayed in the holdalls and kids could help themselves.

I need to start buying up the snap lid boxes too, just getting one a week with the normal shop would soon build up a great collection. We have a zip up storage bit on our kitchen stand but things like teabags, sugar and coffee just lived on top and the ants were a bit of a nightmare ! The mice too !

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April/May - Georgia destroyed in high winds sob
May - Loch Ken, 1st outing for the wolf lake
July - Waterside House, Lake District
July - Inside Park, Dorset


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10/8/2010 at 5:14pm
 Location: None Entered
 Outfit: Hi Gear Kalahari 8
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We use the lidded plastic boxes for clothes. The kids get one each and it doubles as a bedside table for their stuff (books, small lamps etc). Much easier to root around in an individual box than a big suitcase, easy to stack in the car too.

Oh and we use the sleeping bag stuff-bags for laundry. At the end of the holiday I just tip them into the empty boxes.




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