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Goats don’t like wet hooves!

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Last weekend’s adventure was planned to start in civilisation, so I thought I ought to clean my walking boots to look vaguely respectable! Although I’m always careful to dry my boots, I rarely do anything else & they usually bear the muddy souvenir of the last adventure. Consequently it had been a long time since the tread on the sole had been visible, so I got a nasty surprise to see that the outer sole had worn away on one heel. There was a hole where I could see through to the spongy inner layer of the sole.

I love my scarpa boots they are leather & goretex (taking no chances!) and extremely comfortable. My first thought was to get them re-heeled, but I’m not sure that’s possible due to the spongy layer. I also had to acknowledge that the leather on the top was showing signs of cracking.

They’ve done me well, I’ve walked hundreds of miles in them & only once had a blister. I guess I have to accept its time to start looking for a new pair. In the meantime I intend to wear them entirely into the ground.

Towards the end of last weekend’s walk I was faced with a long stretch of path that resembled a steam!

It was so deep I had to walk on tip toes to avoid the water over topping my boots…but do you know, even with the cracks & worn soles, my toes were toasty & dry. Grateful to my good old faithful walking boots!

L

A mystery gift

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Yesterday I received a mystery gift from a friend. She’d brought it back for me as a souvenir from her holiday, and she wanted me to guess what it was… could you guess?!

It’s the size that fits into the palm of my hand. I worked out that the black bits on the corners were little stoppers which opened. I read that it said ‘light my fire’ on it… but I could think what it could have to do with fires. I was stumped.

I asked for a clue and she made it do this:

… are you any the wiser? The lid opens and its got three little compartments inside.

The last clue is that two of the black corner stoppers have on them the letters P and S.

Shall I tell you?!

It’s a camping salt and pepper shaker! Isn’t it a fantastic gift for a girl who love camping?!!

Suggestions welcome for what spice/condiment I should put in the third compartment!

L

Abbey ruins, a cave, a film set & an ancient oak

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Who would have thought a short walk in the Surrey countryside could take in so much, but we came across all this and more on the last section of the Greensands Way we walked.  Read about it here.

Confesssion… it was actually a little while ago we walked this section. We had hoped to camp at the coast this weekend, but the high winds meant this wasn’t sensible. Instead, we are walking the next part of the Greensands Way, which made us realise we are behind with the blogging!!

R & L

Alice the camel has five humps

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You might remember a ridiculous song about Alice the Camel having five humps that you sang as a child? (If not here’s a demonstration we’ve found you on YouTube!!!)… well our Alice also has five humps!! Or at least sometimes – other times she only has 3 or 4!

In this picture she has all her humps – the main tent which comes with a sort of veranda, an additional canopy extension and a vestibule. The additional bits all just zip on so you can add them or not depending on the space you need for that particular trip. Just as in the song, Alice might only have 4 humps sometimes!!

In theory you could probably just keep adding more & more canopy extensions – but we tend to think that 5 humps is big enough… especially when there’s only usually 2 people sleeping inside!!

R & L

Alice travels in style

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We’ve recently been telling you about Alice the Palace our Kampa Hayling tent. Well in keeping with her royal title, Alice likes to travel in style!!

Being pretty big and being made of polycotton rather than just polyester, she is pretty heavy. The stronger goat can just about manouvre her, but only with the aid of the Alice’s travel carriage – a bag designed for the Vango Airbeam tent!

Although not designed for the Kampa tent, this bag is ideal – it is big enough to be able to roll Alice into it without too much trouble. There are seatbelts (well straps!) to compress her down a bit, but best of all there are wheels. She can be wheeled from the car, straight down the driveway and into the garage.

It’s definitely worth doing some research and not just going with the packing solutions offered by your particular tent manafacturer.

R & L

Introducing Alice…

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In the post about our recent camping trip, we promised to introduce you to Alice properly. Well here she is in all her beauty at Pit Hill campsite:

Some of you might actually remember her arrival. She is a Kampa Hayling 4 Classic in polycotton. For a large tent, she is pretty easy to put up as she is inflatable and we have an electric pump and battery pack, so we don’t even need to pump manually!

What’s with her name? Well, of all our tents she is by far the most luxurious. We found ourselves describing her as a palace – so when we were trying to think of a name for her we decided Alice the Palace had a nice ring to it!

We’ll look forward to introducing her more fully over the next few blog posts.

R & L

Give a tent for Lent

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On our chillier camping trips, as we wrap ourselves in our many layers, hug our hot water bottles and snuggle into our warm sleeping bags, we often think about people who are sleeping in tents every night, not by choice, but because there is no other option. We generally conclude that much as we love camping with all our accessories, we’d make pretty rubbish refugees!

In light of those conversations, this charity appeal caught our eye: Give a tent for Lent .

Particularly in the lead up to Easter, we are aware that we have been blessed with so much – so it seemed a fitting thing to do to help provide a tempory home for a family who find themselves needing to live in a tent!

L & R