Now what about rinsing?

If you’re washing up at a sink that’s easier, but if you’re just in a field and you’ve had to walk to fetch water to wash up with, you need to think it through.  By the end of the washing up load, the sudsy water will probably be a bit gross – and even if not,  it’s not that nice to eat washing up liquid!

If there’s space and the weather’s nice, we just lay the clean crockery out on the grass in the sun, pour some clean water over and leave them to dry.

An alternative is to use bag 3 as a rinse bag – take it to the tap and put clean water straight in .  (See earlier post for the 3 bag washing system!)

Happy washing!

R&L

PS Being as you’re likely to be tipping your dirty washing up water into the hedge, we recommend swapping to an eco-washing up liquid.

Everything works better on a campsite if you have a system.  We have a system for washing up which we think you will like:

1. Dirties – put all your dirty washing up in a big ikea bag.  Everything will fit as it’s huge; you can pop it over your shoulder if you need to walk to a washing up station; when you get home, it’s easy to wipe clean; and it folds up nicely to pack away.
2. Washing up bowl – we love our pop up one.  It can be packed away neatly without taking up too much space.
3. Clean dishes  bag – you don’t want to carry the clean washing up back to your tent in the yucky dirty washing up bag.  Instead we have one of those heavy duty bags for life to put the clean things in.  If you assign a bag to the job and keep it with your washing up stuff, it will always be there when you need it!

The three bag system is definitely the way forward!

Embrace your inner goat!!

Thought you might like this picture of how we cooked our bacon and mushrooms on the fire when we were one gas hob down (see the previous post about why that was!!).

Good huh?!  We took a Billy Goat with us this time and put him in charge of this.  I think he’s allowed to come again!

Must say a big thank you to Fox’s Bench Ironwork for sending us a replacement hook for our tripod.  We love our tripod very much, but we lost one or the hooks at the end of last summer.  The nice people there sent us a replacement for free.  Thanks guys!

R&L