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Post by Chris on Jul 23, 2007 23:09:22 GMT
My mates often take the piss out of me for my fondness for gazebos, or gazebi or whatever. I must admit that I do go on about their usefulness a bit, ever since I used to live in a house with a back yard that was the exact right size to erect a gazebo, thus creating a makeshift "garden room" for parties and suchlike.
You're probably on my mates' side at this point..
But get this, it just occurred to me that a gazebo, especially the pop-up variety, is the perfect thing to quickly put up, and then with a small amount of co-operation, you can move it around in order to put the tents up under it if it's chucking it down. Then you move the gazebo to its rightful place in your circle of tents as your place to sit and have a beer.
Yet another victory for the inventor of the gazebo.
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Post by palesaint on Jul 24, 2007 13:52:18 GMT
Your mates are daft, Chris........ i will be for one benefitting from your purchase of a pop up Gazebo.
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Post by Chris on Jul 24, 2007 14:05:31 GMT
Next time I'm being ribbed for my love of the gazebo, I'll expect you to step in to defend me then!!!
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Post by palesaint on Jul 24, 2007 15:56:39 GMT
any mates that have ribbed you...... don;t let them under it..... i'll be security if you like, i have a bald head... lol
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Post by peridot on Jul 24, 2007 20:22:09 GMT
Gazebos are great in sheltered areas. You do need to be careful if the wind gets up however as they can easily take off like a kite before depositing their poles through someone else's tent.
Not the best way to introduce yourself to your neighbours !
I'd imagine the Green Man site is fairly sheltered though.
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Post by Chris on Jul 26, 2007 16:14:30 GMT
Thanks for the warning peridot, I'll make sure that my gazebo is firmly guy-roped and stuff.
The pop-up gazebo is particularly prone to becoming a useless tangled mess of metal if it gets bent out of shape, as I know having already lost one because I tried to put it up in the garden single-handed whilst drunk.
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Post by jakeyd on Aug 10, 2007 15:14:45 GMT
they're not really waterproof though are they? i had to put a big tarp over mine last time, which rather detracts from the ease of use thing, if got a stand up day tent this time, no idea whether it will work, or if i will work out how to put it up - great thing is is gonna be so sunny it doesn't matter
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Post by woodenrabbit on Aug 14, 2007 1:54:56 GMT
Green Man is NOT sheltered as those who bore the brunt of last year's torrential rain will testify - the storms really were QUITE incredible. But many people had gazebos as focal meeting points for their groups. See my phots for examples: www.flickr.com/photos/drewbuddie/sets/72157594247666105/
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Post by Chris on Aug 14, 2007 9:27:11 GMT
My wife very kindly got some stuff called Water Seal from her mum and gave the gazebo a squirt with it, which might help a bit.
My only worry is that pop-up gazebos, for all their ease of up-putting, seem to be less sturdy in a wind than the other sort. Plenty of guy ropes might be a good idea.
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Post by Chris on Aug 21, 2007 15:36:35 GMT
Pop-up gazebos don't seem to be very good for windy days. to much criss-crossing hollow poles and suchlike.
I noticed the non-pop-up ones around us faring a bit beter than ours did. One lives and learns.
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Post by peridot on Aug 22, 2007 0:47:39 GMT
Indeed. I promise not to ever say 'told you so' ;D
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Post by Chris on Aug 22, 2007 0:53:35 GMT
Thanks for that Dermot. You did tell me so.
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Post by Chris on Jan 22, 2008 11:13:47 GMT
My new position on gazebos is that they are only a good thing to take to a festival if you are able to take about three with you, because you'll ned to keep replacing it when it falls down.
Also, if you get a pop-up one, don't let anyone near it when you haven't put it up yet, or someone may get excited and try to erect it in one motion, as someone did with mine, snapping bits of it and hastening its eventual demise.
Somone needs to invent a good festival gazebo, because while it was still up, ours was excellent for sitting under and feeling all civilised-like.
In fact, someone should invent a purpose-built festival machine, consisting of an electrically powered ride-on trolley that can get you to and from the car with all your gear, and then turns into a sturdy gazebo when you reach the campsite. It also politely tells you when the bands you want to see are on, and how close the shops are to running out of cigarettes.
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Post by cyfarthfa on Jan 22, 2008 22:21:24 GMT
That machines called a large well-trained family and a tarp Chris. Runs on baked beans and cider, and the occasional Pieminister.
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Post by kidpresentable on Jan 23, 2008 22:11:08 GMT
My new position on gazebos is that they are only a good thing to take to a festival if you are able to take about three with you, because you'll ned to keep replacing it when it falls down. Also, if you get a pop-up one, don't let anyone near it when you haven't put it up yet, or someone may get excited and try to erect it in one motion, as someone did with mine, snapping bits of it and hastening its eventual demise. Somone needs to invent a good festival gazebo, because while it was still up, ours was excellent for sitting under and feeling all civilised-like. In fact, someone should invent a purpose-built festival machine, consisting of an electrically powered ride-on trolley that can get you to and from the car with all your gear, and then turns into a sturdy gazebo when you reach the campsite. It also politely tells you when the bands you want to see are on, and how close the shops are to running out of cigarettes. Whilst errect, it truly was a thing of beauty. It would have been ok had it not been for the early tampering and the storm like conditions on the Friday night.
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Post by Chris on Jan 24, 2008 16:15:38 GMT
I'm still considering taking one this year, but I'll just get a cheapo one instead of a pop-up number. You can usually get them for about 15 quid in the summer months. If it falls down, it falls down.
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Post by kidpresentable on Jan 24, 2008 17:11:52 GMT
Groundzebo.
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Post by rayrad on Jan 25, 2008 8:30:40 GMT
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Post by Chris on Jan 25, 2008 9:55:18 GMT
Following the great gazebo collapse, a few of us, including me and kidpresentable, were going to record a song or piece of music each, and they were all going to be called Ground Zebo. It's now five months later, and none of us has done anything.
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Post by kidpresentable on Jan 25, 2008 12:36:51 GMT
It's now five months later, and none of us has done anything. Not true - mine is basically written. It's a simple bluesy number, I'll get it recorded at somepoint. Maybe it would be nice to unleash it on here just before the festival.
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