Freeze your bits off overnight camping trip

[teethgrinder]

  So, I reckon an empty 2 pint milk container should be big enough and have a sufficiently wide opening.

Science and man's understanding of really big issues has been advanced.  The next Noble prize is mine 

I dunno about the next Noble prize. But if you put a stick in your 2pt milk container after you've p'd in it, then leave it outside your tent. If it's really cold, you'll have a piss flavour ice lolly for breakfast.

[woollypigs]

Arrgghh flip flop, that's me mates big four O'shite I'm getting to old for this. So I have to bail out.

[dasmoth]

Any ideas as to whether we should be booking spaces in advance?  I can't really see the site being jam packed in mid-January, but I suppose you never know...

[bobb]

I think it's safe to assume we will be the only campers! Whether or not we'll be happy campers is another matter  

[simonp]

Clicked on the link.

Looked at the pic in the bottom right.  Familiar looking wind turbine design, that.

Could be tempted.  I know I can tow a tent as far as Mildenhall so Essex can't be that hard.  Might use gears though. 

[TimO]

I was looking at this and wondering whether freezing my bits off is enough, and whether it would be sensible to cycle the 75 miles there (and back) as well...

It's almost an S24O, and we haven't had a yacf one of those for a while.

[dasmoth]

Yep, I was thinking in S24O terms, although I'm slightly closer than that.  And yes, gears will probably be involved!

OD: do you know if they have a pyromaniac policy?  AKA can we get a fire going somewhere?  I don't hold out great hopes for the solar shower as a way to warm up.

[Oscar's dad]

Fear not campers, I am working from home today so will do the admin associated with this endeavour.

[Oaky]

Fear not campers, I am working from home today so will do the admin associated with this endeavour.

Excellent - much appreciated.

I hereby nominate OD for the yacf Essex Chapter's most coveted award.  (Not sure what that is, but it probably involves pickled eggs).

[Oscar's dad]

Fear not campers, I am working from home today so will do the admin associated with this endeavour.

Excellent - much appreciated.

I hereby nominate OD for the yacf Essex Chapter's most coveted award.  (Not sure what that is, but it probably involves pickled eggs).

Talking of pickled eggs, I think we need to find a pub that sells those posh pickled eggs you clocked at the Chelmsford Beer Festival.  I think they are pickled locally.

[Oaky]

Fear not campers, I am working from home today so will do the admin associated with this endeavour.

Excellent - much appreciated.

I hereby nominate OD for the yacf Essex Chapter's most coveted award.  (Not sure what that is, but it probably involves pickled eggs).

Talking of pickled eggs, I think we need to find a pub that sells those posh pickled eggs you clocked at the Chelmsford Beer Festival.  I think they are pickled locally.

Podge's Gourmet Pickled Eggs

yum yum.

[ScumOfTheRoad]

Pickled eggs? On a camping trip? Better have one-man tents for everybody.

[delthebike]

Pickled eggs? On a camping trip? Better have one-man tents for everybody.

Close the vents and let those greenhouse gases build up. Just remember no smoking or naked flames! 

[Oscar's dad]

Pickled eggs? On a camping trip? Better have one-man tents for everybody.

Close the vents and let those greenhouse gases build up. Just remember no smoking or naked flames! 

Can someone bring an ack-ack gun to shoot down any tents or sleeping bags that are circling the wind turbine at sun up?

[Oscar's dad]

I can't believe this escapade, conceived with the help of beer, has proved to be so popular.  There are more daft people around than I had previously imagined - well done all  

The following have expressed some sort of interest:

Me
Oaky
dasmouth
Reg (DUG) or whatever he's calling himself today
Wowbagger
bobb
fboab
Julian (and possibly Charlotte?)
Del
Tomsk
Scum of the (icy) Road
Phil (and stoker)
teethgrinder
Bridget
Tim O

I make that 15 tents    I have provisionally booked this number of pitches and told the pub I will confirm in the New Year.  So, if you bang your head, gain common sense and choose to bail out, or more loons pop up we can flex the numbers.

The Current Mrs R plus Twinkle Toes will be tucked up in one of their cottages so I have booked a dinner table for 20 people, again with wiggle room built in.

So, I will ask for a definite "yes" or "you must be forking joking" early in 2010.

[Charlotte]

Julian (and possibly charlotte?)

Camping?  In January?

Do you think I'm some kind of lunatic or something?

[Oscar's dad]

Julian (and possibly charlotte?)

Camping?  In January?

Do you think I'm some kind of lunatic or something?

I'm sure you've done dafter things.  And there is one cottage left (£50).  You know you want to 

[TimO]

Do you think I'm some kind of lunatic or something?

Do we even need to answer that?



 

[dasmoth]

Regarding lunacy... sadly not going to be much moon (even if it's not cloudy).  New moon on the 15^th.

[clarion]

...
dasmouth
...

Freudian exposure of your oral fixation?

[bobb]

Talking off pickled eggs - I still have a jar after some idiot made a stupid bet with me   The best before date is rather optimistically accurate as 30/12/2009. I'm sure they'll be just as good a couple of weeks later, so I'll bring them along.

I'm not sure I like the term "yacf Essex Chapter", it's waaaaay too posh! We are "THE YACF ESSEX MASSIVE!"

*Makes odd hand gestures*

[Oscar's dad]

Julian (and possibly charlotte?)

Camping?  In January?

Do you think I'm some kind of lunatic or something?

I'm sure you've done dafter things.  And there is one cottage left (£50).  You know you want to 

Just had an idea that might tempt you.  Book the last remaining cottage for £50.  At 2am on the morning of Sunday 17th you'll be able to charge anyone wanting to roll their sleeping bag out on your (warm) floor an absolute fortune!

[Oscar's dad]

Talking off pickled eggs - I still have a jar after some idiot made a stupid bet with me  

You have remarkable will power for them to have lasted so long!

[Charlotte]

So now you want me to come cottaging with you, yes?

[Oscar's dad]

So now you want me to come cottaging with you, yes?

I was waiting for a cottaging reference from somebody.  You rarely disappoint do you?