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11/9/2018 at 4:51pm
Location: Yorkshire
Outfit: 5m Bell Tent
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Quote: Originally posted by john,mel,3kids! on 10/9/2018
Wow, that's some lighting you have in your bell. How long did it take to set that little lot up?
Liking the lighting around the inside of your tent, is that reflected through from the outside?
Setting up the lighting took about 40 minutes because I'm very clumsy with new fairy lights and got them all tangled up before handing over them over to my husband to sort out (who lost the will to live very quickly - I've promised to do this job in future!) However packing away only took 20 minutes as I've now got a little log to wind each set onto so they don't get tangled next time.
Outside I've used a set of solar-powered 200 LED warm fairy lights, which wind three times round the circumference of the tent and around the porch and are clipped on with mini bulldog clips bought from eBay in packs of 50.
The guys are marked with colour-changing solar glass ball spikes, in the sale at B&M so it cost less than a tenner to do the lot.
Inside the tent I've used two sets of USB rice grain copper wire fairies which run twice around each half of the interior base of the tent and are charged by a 20,000mAh Aukey double socket power bank. This lighting isn't very bright from the outside of the tent, neither are the exterior fairies very bright from the inside. You can barely see the solar spikes once inside the tent.
The chandelier is lit with a 200 set of battery-powered rice grain copper wire fairies, which requires 6 AA batteries. They didn't run out during the trip and we had them on approximately 9 hours all in all.
It might seem like a bit of a faff but tbh the hardest work was in the research and sourcing materials. Once you've assembled everything it's a doddle to set up and, we both felt, really worth it to have such a lovely ambience in the evening.
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) to use bunting (which personally is not for me) a wicker basket at the foot of the bed and some kind of bedside table either side of the double bed, but the very nature of a blank cream canvas interior lends itself to creative customisation which is great for arty types like me! 
