Tea?

[Bobby Mhor]

Smaller space to heat, and you can limit any breeze inwards in a tent. A solid roof over yer head in snow, I'd agree is preferable to canvas. It gives a reassurance that a tent can't.
Rain, a lot, on this island, never!! Don't seem to get the snowfall we did back then, you should be safer now.
Did you ever try swapping weeks, just to catch the weather out? Was every second week the plan when you started, or did it sorta fall that way. Away from the city, into the fresh country air. At one with nature...
You'd do it again if able?

She knew she was getting in with someone with wandering fever then. In a tent any bad habits really can't be ignored either. Suppose you also used campsites that had showers and water on tap as well...
Peat bogs, could be fun getting back to the tent from the pub!

Enjoy yer days jaunt...

Tent to pub 3 mil...
Bothy to Pub - 1.8 ml..
Obviously, we walked out to the road...
We did visit other 'establishments', but the thumb out for that and it was no problem either way....
Glencoe was the alternate weekend as I met up with the future Mrs M the other weekend(s)
I was introduced to the hills at a very, very early age, and it stuck.
My pal's grandad would hoist a full bergen on his back and off we would go for a few nights away.
It would have been better if no midges...
They were a scourge in my life until I found a haven here (avoiding them).

Owdo
You've been listening to those forecasters again!
Doubt I'll get all hot and bothered...

In the low 20s here, still too warm..

 

[classic33]

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Tent to pub 3 mil...
Bothy to Pub - 1.8 ml..
Obviously, we walked out to the road...
We did visit other 'establishments', but the thumb out for that and it was no problem either way....
Glencoe was the alternate weekend as I met up with the future Mrs M the other weekend(s)
I was introduced to the hills at a very, very early age, and it stuck.
My pal's grandad would hoist a full bergen on his back and off we would go for a few nights away.
It would have been better if no midges...
They were a scourge in my life until I found a haven here (avoiding them).


In the low 20s here, still too warm..

From yer tent to the pub, but back to the bothy? Saving a mile of walking time.
Obviously, easier going with the chance of a lift for yon weary travellers.
What establishments lay within walking range to the west?
When you weren't doing yer DJ'ing at the fading holiday campsite. I keep getting this picture of you doing yer Gladys Pugh impression.
You going to take yer mates dad lead and introduce Toodles & Co. to the hills.
The free air, no one around you, and them. You in the caravan, them in their tent.
The freely available food source, just fling around...
You moved to get away from the midges. Did you leave them a forwarding address...

Mid 20's, with promises of low 30's tomorrow, We'll see.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

From yer tent to the pub, but back to the bothy? Saving a mile of walking time.
Obviously, easier going with the chance of a lift for yon weary travellers.
What establishments lay within walking range to the west?
When you weren't doing yer DJ'ing at the fading holiday campsite. I keep getting this picture of you doing yer Gladys Pugh impression.
You going to take yer mates dad lead and introduce Toodles & Co. to the hills.
The free air, no one around you, and them. You in the caravan, them in their tent.
The freely available food source, just fling around...
You moved to get away from the midges. Did you leave them a forwarding address...

Mid 20's, with promises of low 30's tomorrow, We'll see.

Toodles's dad has well over 180 Munros under his belt...
I'll leave it to him..
Mind you, they can be soft nowadays..
I was telling Mrs M about my first two weeks under canvas with my dad...
Tent costs 14/10d out of the pawn shop..
A couple of ex-army grey blankets were our sleeping bag....

Opened a can of Blood Moon...
Jeez, was wary but better than the previous one, still it has berry and ginger flavours....
four cans of Leeds brew to go...
The things we do for science......aaah.

 

[classic33]

Toodles's dad has well over 180 Munros under his belt...
I'll leave it to him..
Mind you, they can be soft nowadays..
I was telling Mrs M about my first two weeks under canvas with my dad...
Tent costs 14/10d out of the pawn shop..
A couple of ex-army grey blankets were our sleeping bag....

Opened a can of Blood Moon...
Jeez, was wary but better than the previous one, still it has berry and ginger flavours....
four cans of Leeds brew to go...
The things we do for science......aaah.

You'll not go along, in the car, to offer encouragement and be waiting for them when they get back.
Air mattresses, self inflating some of them, waterproofs that aren't boil in the bag when worn... Lightweight tents.
I had luxury in comparison to you then. A genuine old fashioned square cut sleeping bag for my first camping trip. Supplied by local authority to schools and youth clubs, for a fee of course.

You wanna watch for the blood moon. Can be a sign of bad weather.
A few left. You're going too fast in this experiment. You need to be able to repeat it for it to be scientific. Use them all and yer science experiment comes to a halt, with no proof of success or failure...

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Morning to ya
Have a lazy day

 

[Bobby Mhor]

You'll not go along, in the car, to offer encouragement and be waiting for them when they get back.
Air mattresses, self inflating some of them, waterproofs that aren't boil in the bag when worn... Lightweight tents.
I had luxury in comparison to you then. A genuine old fashioned square cut sleeping bag for my first camping trip. Supplied by local authority to schools and youth clubs, for a fee of course.

You wanna watch for the blood moon. Can be a sign of bad weather.
A few left. You're going too fast in this experiment. You need to be able to repeat it for it to be scientific. Use them all and yer science experiment comes to a halt, with no proof of success or failure...

Pfft, used air mattress in the late 70s with Mrs M..
or more those airbed things for floating in the water, the ones that take you out to sea...
I'd need something higher now to my old bones out of it..
I could camp to a degree....
I remember BB camp: 13 years old...
The food was surprisingly good...
And my 8 for 21 at cricket..
FT eat yer heart out.....
fishing in the wee burn and the odd trout, which, looking back, were sea trout

Two cans in four nights, four to go..

 

[Mo1959]

Morning to ya
Have a lazy day

I was up with the larks and got myself out for a spin while it was still quite cool. I suspect I won’t be back out again. I really don’t like the heat much. Roll on autumn!

 

[classic33]

Morning to ya
Have a lazy day

And the same to yerself. Just
Out and about today...

 

[classic33]

Pfft, used air mattress in the late 70s with Mrs M..
or more those airbed things for floating in the water, the ones that take you out to sea...
I'd need something higher now to my old bones out of it..
I could camp to a degree....
I remember BB camp: 13 years old...
The food was surprisingly good...
And my 8 for 21 at cricket..
FT eat yer heart out.....
fishing in the wee burn and the odd trout, which, looking back, were sea trout

Two cans in four nights, four to go..

Airbeds aren't quite in the same league as inflatable mattresses. Especially the self inflating sort.
Wake up all at sea, with a helicopter hovering above you.
Camp bed about 8 inches of the floor. Move about during the night and they tip you on the floor.
Tell Mrs M yer all going camping for the weekend, as you start trying to locate what's required...
Who were doing the cooking, you or the adults with you?
You any good with leather upon willow, or does it stick because it were one time only.
Could be why they were odd...

Yer experiment isn't being rushed then.

 

[classic33]

I was up with the larks and got myself out for a spin while it was still quite cool. I suspect I won’t be back out again. I really don’t like the heat much. Roll on autumn!

You got out, that's the main thing.
Supposed to reach the high twenties up around you today and tomorrow. How'll you survive?

 

[Mo1959]

You got out, that's the main thing.
Supposed to reach the high twenties up around you today and tomorrow. How'll you survive?

Sitting here with the shorts and vest PJ’s on with the blinds shut. I have a fan I can stick on if it gets any warmer.

 

[classic33]

Sitting here with the shorts and vest PJ’s on with the blinds shut. I have a fan I can stick on if it gets any warmer.

How'd you wear a fan?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Good evening

 

[classic33]

Good evening

Owdo
You ready for the deluge headed your way?
According to the forecasters.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

I was up with the larks and got myself out for a spin while it was still quite cool. I suspect I won’t be back out again. I really don’t like the heat much. Roll on autumn!

Hiya
I'm with you,
roll on much cooler temps.....
We gave our fan away last year to one of our kids..
I'm replacing it.
That was the muggiest since we moved..
Managed to sleep okay though...
Stay cool

Airbeds aren't quite in the same league as inflatable mattresses. Especially the self inflating sort.
Wake up all at sea, with a helicopter hovering above you.
Camp bed about 8 inches of the floor. Move about during the night and they tip you on the floor.
Tell Mrs M yer all going camping for the weekend, as you start trying to locate what's required...
Who were doing the cooking, you or the adults with you?
You any good with leather upon willow, or does it stick because it were one time only.
Could be why they were odd...

Yer experiment isn't being rushed then.

Best laugh was the glamping we booked (with a couple of pals) on Mull..
Bedframes were serious bits of metal, but jeez, so comfortable, copious use of white PVC over scaffolding.
Not maybe like some of the glamping nowadays, but this was comfortable.....

Cool down fluid? Danish shandy......lovely jubbly
I never knew how good it had been until the scorer, who was a youth player with the local club, told me and said I should pop along and get looked at.
Cricket wasn't a thing to be really but I did work alongside a future Scotland batsman in the 70s...

Rounders game early doors so my night until 9pm is taken care of,
I was out early then got lost doing stuff..
Garden (or clover) now cut, boy it was roasting out..
Still not used the cherries, tomorrow....
Rather funnily, Mrs M is making lentil soup with a ham hough (pre-boiled)..
Lots for freezing (after sitting for a minimum of 18 hours)

Owdo
You ready for the deluge headed your way?
According to the forecasters.

Just under 1mm this afternoon, send it.....
plants need it (oh and bike fettled earlier )