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Yikes!  Not the tent, nor the poles, thanks goodness but last time I forgot the stove.  Unless I have caffeine coursing through my veins I'm not nice to know so OH had to make an emergency dash to the nearest stockist of suitcase stoves.  Once I'd caught up with three mugs of tea I was happy again.

I'd not been able to print off my check-list as the printer wasn't working.  It is now though, so thanks for the prompt....I'm going to run off a few lists right now, ready for next year's camping and put them with the camping gear!!  Nothing like being prepared, eh!

Quote: Originally posted by Nippery Slipple on 27/9/2011

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Next the canvas, somehow it looked different to how I remembered it.
It was the wrong canvas.

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It's easy to get caught out, but long, long ago there was a member of our morris dancing/folkie group who was frankly ditzy.  She always forgot something, wherever we were camping, but one day she did the Grand Slam... forgot her tent, so she had to share with someone else - forgot her bedding, so we had to have a whip-round for blankets for her, forgot her kagoule - someone dug a 'thing' out of their boot that they used to lie on to get under the engine... it was waterproof, but had very little else going for it! - and she forgot to bring any money, so we had to have a whip-round, (which to be fair she paid back the minute we got home).

Her excuse was most of it was in two bags which she'd put in the hall to load in the car, and she got distracted by the telephone, so they never went in!

She did, however, remember her bodhran, her melodeon, her drop spindle, her feathered dream catcher, her Morris kit and her doggie, so her priorities were obviously not in the equipment or comfort of the camp!  As there was ice on the tents in the morning, she was just lucky to have friends!

FoO