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Quote: Originally posted by whippetlover22 on 11/6/2012

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Wow- lovely tent set ups's.
Shigella- your baby looks well chilled on that bed.

Armchair camper, are those S.I.M's on your campbeds or blankets, where did you buy those from, theyre lovely.

I dont think ill be camping in the rain, as i dont fancy getting my new canvas wet and dirty- might wait till we get some better weather- whenever that might be.

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Hi Whippetlover22,

We've got SIMs on the beds - a 7.5cm and a 10cm. I bought fleece blankets from Dunelm Mill and made covers which fold under at the head end and fasten with poppers, leaving the valves accessible at the corners. It's a very cosy arrangement! The sleeping bags are rolled up under the camp beds during the day and the beds double up as seating.

Ours is still a work in progress (especially the glamping side of things) and as we don't have a roof box or trailer have to be able to cram anything we take in the car! 

The front half of the tent is used as a living area - to one side of the door we have a small table with storage under for food and an inflatable sofa beside that.  On the other side of the door we have a cool box which doubles up as a table top and another inflatable sofa beside that.  In front of the pole we have a basket, again the top doubles up as a table top, and inside we store all our plates, bowls, cups, cooking utensils, kettle, heater, spare suitcase stove, gas, first aid kit, etc.  The back half of the tent has a bedroom inner - we all sleep on SIMS, kids toys are stored in a folding storage, box and all clothes and toilettries are stored in zip up beach bags from Clas Ohlson (similar to nice laundry bags you get from E-bay).  Outside we have a cooking table thing (with suitcase stove on top, pots and pans under), folding crate for taking washing up to and from sinks, table and folding chairs.  If its wet the folding chairs either end up back in the car or folded up behind the sofa and we take a tarp to cook under.  Bags for tent, pegs, poles, sleeping bags, pump, etc all live in the car.  Not sure how to add pics so added them to my gallery instead!

It might have been my photos. Yes, I used the flap from the bag, and a strip from the top of the bag too by the time I'd finished.

I assembled mine slightly differently from the pictures on the Frontier website. They show the cut edges of the fabric around the inside edge of the hole, sandwiched between the sections of the flashing kit. I was afraid it might catch light with the heat from the flue so I pushed the flashing kit up through the hole from beneath, meaning that all the fabric was outside the rubbery bit, well away from the heat.

The inside. That's a piece of calico, which matched quite well. I also put in eyelets for the bolts so they didn't fray the canvas every time I took the flashing kit on and off.