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Subject Topic: So What Bit of Kit Did Santa Bring?
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01/1/2012 at 5:48pm
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I got a Stelia lamp and a campingaz double stove cooker from my lovely MIL

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Sarah


01/1/2012 at 6:10pm
 Location: North Herts
 Outfit: Monterey4 Cabanon E
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We know have enough lights to rival Heathrow...

String of (very pretty) chinese lantern solar fairy lights.
Exceedingly bright handheld/hanging torch lantern (aka as an inspection lamp!): rechargeable.
Battery operated LED anglepoise-style table lamp (looks a bit like ET's head.)
Wind-up torch.
Small but bright hanging LED light (which I bought vastly reduced from Millets and gave to OH in his stocking).

That brings our tent lighting selection to the total of 14 options for all eventualities and interior design needs


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    Do campers 'peg it'?


    01/1/2012 at 7:31pm
     Location: Herefordshire
     Outfit: Bell tent RelumPearl Outwell Oregon
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    Hi Louise,
    you lucky girl, a dutch oven set with skillet, pot and frying pan.
    Maybe my birthday next month if I keep dropping the hints



    01/1/2012 at 11:46pm
     Location: None Entered
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    I got 8 illuminated tent pegs! Yowzer!

    Liz


    02/1/2012 at 1:24pm
     Location: rotherham s.yorks
     Outfit: outwell iowa 6 .regatta 3 man tunnel
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    we got a outwell iowa 6 signiture and footprint a skillet for that lovely camping food (ok me and OH treat ourselve just before crimbo) my mother bought us an hamper full of essencials kids bought me an headlight for cooking in the dark or ye and to top all that got a new house woohoo



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    02/1/2012 at 1:30pm
     Location: Worcester
     Outfit:  Kalahari 10 Blacks Lupus & Juno 500
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    Nothing campingish for me but I did by the Mrs a double sleeping bag and a double airbed. She is not a keen camper so I was prepared for it to be an unwelcome gift. I made sure she thought we were only buying for the kids this year and not each other so she could not mewl to much about what she had bought me.

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    Armchair camper with more tents than I will probably ever get the use out of.





    02/1/2012 at 4:47pm
     Location: Northumberland
     Outfit: vango illusion 800
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    Santa was very kind to me by way of; my double skillet, a funky wind up radio/torch, several citronella candles and a wasp pot!

    I am a very lucky girl!

    Can't wait to start camping in the spring now (can't persuade my boys to go any earlier)!



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    Jewelsm - a fair weather camper

    August 2013, 14, 15, 16 & 17-Trevornick for two and a half weeks of sea and surf (and ever optimistic -lots of sun). Some other weekends if I can persuade DH


    02/1/2012 at 11:06pm
     Location: Wirral
     Outfit:  Aztec Mardi Gras 3
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    I now have a proper camping kitchen set-up to go with my Vango; no more crawling around when cooking - very nice! Treated myself to a little inflatable pillow too, to save lugging a full size one around.


    02/1/2012 at 11:10pm
     Location: Essex
     Outfit: Coleman Mackenzie Cabin 6
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    No kit, but we got vouchers for a local camping shop so we'll be getting a new cooking stand (or something else) soon.

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    2012 Camping

    May/Jun Whitemead Forest Park


    03/1/2012 at 1:14am
     Location: Denmark
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    My 12 year old gave me a nice candle stick with a "battery candle" for the tent, the green colour matching our Montana 6. She certainly has understood what glamping is about!


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    03/1/2012 at 10:28am
     Location: north of the wall
     Outfit: None Entered
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    money for new chairs, Don't know which to buy still looking


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    Camping = doing things I don't do at home.
    Cycling, cycling and er cycling


    03/1/2012 at 1:13pm
     Location: Norfolk
     Outfit: Cabanons - 5 of them!
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    I must have been a very good girl cos I got some lovely goodies 24

    A sun canopy for my guadeloupe

    A camping cookbook

    A huge Towsure bag for all my tent pegs & accessories

    A citronella candle to match my orange accessories 24

    And these from my dotty sister - don't laugh cos I think they are going to be brilliant!!



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    Anne - mad mum to one - foster mum to many - adoptatent to you guys!


    03/1/2012 at 2:53pm
     Location: Sunny south coast
     Outfit: Columbia 600 Bude 4
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    No real surprises as we needed the items anyway as replacements - but our camping Christmas prezzies to each other were: 2 Vango chairs, a new Campingaz lantern, an ultra lightweight head torch for our son, 2 fleecy waterbottle covers, a hanging/magnetic led light and a battery clip on book reading light.

    We did get a useful bottle openner for the overnight set-up out of a Christmas cracker which was a nice surprise24.



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    Love our set-up and need no more tents or gear, so trying to stop looking!


    03/1/2012 at 6:59pm
     Location: Fife
     Outfit:  Vango Calisto 600
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    A surf blue vango tarp so i can add a kitchen area to my vango calisto, just need a kitchen now lol, oh and a windbreak and a ground tarp. ;)

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    03/1/2012 at 10:22pm
     Location: Leeds
     Outfit: Nevada Yukon Carolina Fusion Bell
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    I got a Quecha tarp to cook under when I'm in the Carolina and an LCD weather station so I can see how cold it is outside and work out how many layers I need to put on before I leg it across to the toilet block in the morning! 24

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    Mar - Milarrochy Bay - 9 days
    Apr - Drayton Manor - 1 day
    May - Saxdale - 4 days
    May - Nantcol - 9 days
    July - Weymouth - 1 day
    July - Rozel Bay - 14 days
    Aug - Corfe Castle - 2 days
    Aug - Saxdale - 4 days
    Sep - Stratford - 2 days
    Oct - Stainforth - 2 days
    Dec - Saxdale - 5 days
    To be continued.....



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