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Post by peridot on Aug 6, 2008 21:27:11 GMT
I'm miffed that the warning that it should be taken down in strong winds only comes with the tent, though I suppose it is implicit in the name. Well you'd expect a (properly pitched) tent to cope with strong winds so I would have thought it reasonable to expect an awning to do so too. We use a standalone Rimini motorhome awning with the Dandy camper, and find it excellent. I don't think you'd have any problem using your awning in addition to having your friends camping next to you. Were you concerned over taking up too much space ... or are you having to transport their camping equipment leaving no room for yours?  |
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Post by ursaminor on Aug 10, 2008 18:03:24 GMT
bought myself a new tent  the blue one a 2 seconds tent for 1 person for 25 euro (+- £20) bought one like these cause of the weight, only 2,4 kg (while my other one weighs 5,4 kg), better get myself a light tent since I'll be touring through Wales for +- 2 months after the festival  |
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Post by cyfarthfa on May 17, 2009 11:05:33 GMT
Right, I think it's that time of year again when the tents can come out. Whose got new kit then? any good new buys? I haven't got anything yet, mainly because of a long standing domestic stand-off with the daughters and (Ms. Cyfarthafa) about attendance this year. I was going to have to buy a new small tent, but matters are now resolved. On which note, can anyone recommend a quality yet portable camping chair. Money no object but must be comfortable. This is important. It's part of the 'settlement'. My chums have all bailed out- the wimps- 'co of last years weather.
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Post by krasnyi on May 18, 2009 13:00:48 GMT
About time this board sprang back into life - always preferred the banter on here to the official one. We'll be bringing the mighty blue tent (featured higher up the thread) again this year. Camping chairs? Aren't the Millets bog standard chairs comfy enough? they're pretty cheap.
Despite the weather at Greenman and the subsequent mishaps on holiday on the Gower (daughter's broken fingers, grown-ups getting a serious dose of the shits, a stream coming through the missle of the tent) we'll be doing the same again this year (without the mishaps and with bloody glorious weather).
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Post by cyfarthfa on May 18, 2009 19:24:56 GMT
yes I do agree. This place is much more relaxed than the other place. It's all strong opinions and poor punctuation over there, plus you seem to have to have fixed ideas about almost identical 'pop' groups. Krasnyi, I am sorry to hear about your mishaps in the Gower, and note with interest your use of the word 'missle'. I have not been able to trace the meaning of this word- could you oblige? I did wonder if it was a mistype and your tent was equipped with some kind of ballistic deterrent device, useful against bongos, but decided that that was hopelessly un-Greenman.
P.S. If you do have a tent equipped with an anti Bongo Missile could you let us know how powerful it is, and if you can buy it in Millets in Ponty, since Ms Cyfarthfa says she'd prefer one of them to a comfy camp chair anyday.
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Post by krasnyi on May 19, 2009 8:55:31 GMT
As a staunch camper I thought you'd be familiar with the word 'missle', originally thougt to have derived from the sailing vernacular (mainsail) it refers to . . . . . OK, so it was a typo. sorry to disappoint. I've never heard a bongo at Greenman - try the family camping area. On the other hand you do get woken up at 6.00am by loud kids (something I am used to in any event).
Toodle-pip!
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Post by cyfarthfa on May 19, 2009 14:16:43 GMT
Thank you for that. UnfortuNTLY WE HEARD A LOT OF BONGOS IN FAMILY CAMPING. THERE WAS AFAMILY OF THEM.
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Post by fergal on May 22, 2009 12:45:41 GMT
I am thinking of buying a cheap trailer tent. Any advice?
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Post by fergal on May 22, 2009 12:52:29 GMT
Is there an electric hook up for trailer tents ?
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Post by peridot on Jun 3, 2009 16:53:35 GMT
Is there an electric hook up for trailer tents ? No - you're on gas and battery power only. A well looked after trailer tent or folding camper will last decades but a badly maintained one might fall apart the first time you try to use it. If you're buying second-hand make sure you see it erected, try to get a feel for its history and the type of people who've owned it, and give the trailer and running gear a thorough inspection. Remember to factor in the cost of a towbar if you haven't already got one. |
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Post by peridot on Jun 3, 2009 17:10:32 GMT
Right, I think it's that time of year again when the tents can come out. Whose got new kit then? any good new buys? I haven't got anything yet, mainly because of a long standing domestic stand-off with the daughters and (Ms. Cyfarthafa) about attendance this year. I was going to have to buy a new small tent, but matters are now resolved. On which note, can anyone recommend a quality yet portable camping chair. Money no object but must be comfortable. This is important. It's part of the 'settlement'. My chums have all bailed out- the wimps- 'co of last years weather. After a similar domestic stand-off in the Peridot household the result is that I and daughter are going and Mrs Peridot isn't  The Lafuma chairs are supposed to be the best but they are bloody expensive (and not exactly compact when folded up). |
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Post by cyfarthfa on Jun 3, 2009 22:46:34 GMT
Ahhh.. I seee.. In the Cyfarthfa household we are now all going. Eldest daughter had casting vote, and luckily festivals are 'kool' this summer. The purchase of an i-pod touch helped, as did the promise of 14 days in Pembrokeshire, plus friends up for the next few weekends. Youngest daughter was bought off with a flute and the promise that we would climb up that mountain opposite for a picnick. Mrs Cyfarthfa....hmm. Let's just say that the announcement that Hawkwind are playing DID NOT HELP. It was touch and go, but the tickets are bought, and I have erected a new fence in the front garden, am decorating the spare room in the first week after the end of term, and sorting the guttering. It did come down to me ordering a small tent and threatening to bike over, but we got there in the end. I may not need the chairs now, although its always handy to have something to pull out of the boot when things are going t*ts-up. But the rest of last years gang...wimped out completely. Now, lets really make this years meet a good one.
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Post by rexham on Jun 8, 2009 12:06:18 GMT
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Post by krasnyi on Jun 12, 2009 10:55:53 GMT
Aha - join the Outwell crew. Pitch too close to us and my kids (5 and 3) will make a bee-line for that fab children's room. We thought about getting one for our tent but we'd have had to get two or risk a riot.
The sun's out, the line-up looks wonderful and I've just done my first Green Man 2009 CD mix - I can't wait!
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Post by setyourselfonfire on Jul 11, 2009 1:55:47 GMT
Bear me no ill for I come in peace...I am a furst Tangerine Field-er and wondered if anyone had sampled their wares?
My reasoning behind the booking of a Tangerine Field tent is the logistical nightmare that is getting 4 people to Green Man from Glasgow (2) London (1) and Nuneaton-ish, and one of those being the tent bringer...Being the biggest lump of the four and the only one with many years in the scout movement under my belt, I knew full well who'd be bringing the tent...yours truly!
So a camping sissy I may be, and my trusty solar powered fairy lights will testify to this, It is for the good of all that I can relax knowing a tent is there and waiting, rather than bonking someone on the head at Hereford station with a stray pole!
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Post by krasnyi on Jul 11, 2009 17:57:04 GMT
Us campers tend to the evangelical so you're likely to get reponses along the lines of 'half the fun of camping is putting up a tent in the driving rain while your kids run rampage about the site . . .' Don't know anyone who's used Tangerine Fields but you only read good stuff about them. Must admit that departing on the Monday the last two years has been pretty vile due to the mud - to be able to leave it to someone else does have its merits.
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Post by Chris on Jul 14, 2009 8:47:42 GMT
I haven't tried Tangerine Fields, but I can totally see the advantages of being able to arrive and have camp already waiting for you. Will you please let us know how the experience works out afterwards? It would be good info for the future I'm sure.
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Post by setyourselfonfire on Jul 14, 2009 22:09:55 GMT
I was more than ready to have the holy waters of the camping cloth flung upon my person...the ground upon which I camp upon to be desecrated, and the wholly against fire regulations prescence of a burning cross adjacent to my pitch...thankfully instead I have been met by travelling samaritains, preaching to good word rather than pushing it down ones throat with spare tent pegs.
I shall most definitely regail all present with my TF experience...my thinking is that they can't be all that shabby since they seem to have their sticky fingers in the proverbial festival pie that is Britain!
I'm thinking easyjet...but with tarpaulin!
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Post by teaandtoast on Jul 18, 2009 21:16:10 GMT
We are taking our pop up tent to it's third greenman (it's also a veteran of two muddy glastos and numerous camping trips). There is nothing like popping the tent and then chilling out with a beer for half an hour whilst everyone else faffs around putting theirs up.
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Post by cyfarthfa on Jul 19, 2009 22:59:18 GMT
I would just like you to know, Mr/s Setyuselfonfire, that my daughters saw your post and followed the trail to Tangerinefields where they advertise a yurt.. and a Gypsy Caravan.... with the result that i have a revolt on my hands about next year. I now have to book the gypsy caravan for the next one. Jeezus, this one hasn't happened yet and already conditions are being laid down for next year. At this rate I shall have to set up the Blood orange Field where you get no services what so ever and have to dig your own latrine.
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