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When we got our first TT about 15yrs ago. We took blankets off our beds, most of the food we needed, pots and pans etc from the kitchen, small camping gas 2 ring cooker with small grill (2nd hand shop) and a couple of deck chairs. Plastic sheeting for ground sheet Camping gaz lights, games and books. Suitcases of clothes and towels

Now we have:

• EHU
• Electric lights
• Kettle
• Gas cooker
• Inflatable sofa bed
• Comfy chairs
• Comfy sleeping bags
• Halogen oven
• Slow cooker
• Hair dryer and strighteners
• TV + Freeview, DVD, and Wii
• Heaters
• Wardrobes
• Carpet
• Micro fibre towels
• Porta loo 

..and the list continues

I loved camping then as much as i do now. I am just a wee bit older and love me comforts

Do i still qualify as a die hard camper or am i now a woose

Sue

I take EHU, electric lights, kettle, gas cooker, chairs and good sleeping bags out of that list. The rest? Ummm. One person's comforts are another person's waste of packing space, but if you feel you really need and want it then why not? After all I ocassionally take a spinning wheel with me on camping trips and I doubt that gets onto many folks' lists!

Quote: Originally posted by Gemma-lu on 09/4/2009

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Val - A spinning wheel?

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Quote: Originally posted by Gemma-lu on 09/4/2009

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Val - A spinning wheel?

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It's a hobby of mine...and I also teach spinning. I've got seven wheels, including the one I bought on a camping trip to France last year and which I had to fit into the TT when we packed up to come home. Now that was tight packing, belive me!

So if you ever see a woman on the campsite sat outside a vintage (read ancient) TT on a summer evening with a spinning wheel, it will probably be me, lol.

I used to go camping basically with me, a sleeping bag, a tent and a Trangia. Add a few clothes, food and beer and that was enough.

Then I added one of the small Cadacs, a bigger dome tent, two burner stove, Thermarest...

Once I moved up to folding campers I guess I changed from being a roughty-toughty to being a namby-pamby!

Now I've got a 2004 Pennine with indoor toilet, oven, fridge and am adding a motor mover and heater. Is there any hope left?

I've never felt the need to take a spinning wheel - although I once brought a butter-churn back from a trip (wasn't mine, a friend couldn't get it in his caravan).

Glen

"Only a fool goes uncomfortable in camp".

A quote from Robert Baden Powell (founder of the Scouts & one time chairman of the C&CC).

Steve.