Tent Dressage

[MissB]

That's twice I've posted today, must be a slow day at the office ;-)

Anyway, share what kind of person you are... sleep where you fall in a cider induced coma on your bags as they were dumped on day one or do you dress your tent. Once I was camped next to a family that were decorating all the inside with mirrors and flags!

My tip is that I always take LED battery powered fairy lights. They are cheap as chips, bright, last 40 hours and so much easier than hanging torch for late night last thing tent side drinks.

Edited April 3, 2009 by MissB

[joshwarrr]

i have a 4 man pop up tent, its three meters long, i pop it open and i am done. i try and keep it tidy but it rarely works.

[rosstopher]

That's twice I've posted today, must be a slow day at the office ;-)

Anyway, share what kind of person you are... sleep where you fall in a cider induced coma on your bags as they were dumped on day one or do you dress your tent. Once I was camped next to a family that were decorating all the inside with mirrors and flags!

My tip is that I always take LED battery powered fairy lights. They are cheap as chips, bright, last 40 hours and so much easier than hanging torch for late night last thing tent side drinks.

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

lol last year it was a light hanging in the middle of a large hazy room, and it basicly stayed that way, as for the sleeping, it is pretty much where we pass out haha for example, i was found on monday morning outside the tent naked in my sleeping bag laying by the fire, it turned out i had been crawling round the campsite for a few hours trying to find a cigarette and a lighter saying the sky looked like alphabet soup.... a touch worrying, but it was fun

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

lol last year it was a light hanging in the middle of a large hazy room, and it basicly stayed that way, as for the sleeping, it is pretty much where we pass out haha for example, i was found on monday morning outside the tent naked in my sleeping bag laying by the fire, it turned out i had been crawling round the campsite for a few hours trying to find a cigarette and a lighter saying the sky looked like alphabet soup.... a touch worrying, but it was fun

[rosstopher]

Haha, that's awesome

[ampersand]

My tip is that I always take LED battery powered fairy lights. They are cheap as chips, bright, last 40 hours and so much easier than hanging torch for late night last thing tent side drinks.

[shiveringsky]

lol last year it was a light hanging in the middle of a large hazy room, and it basicly stayed that way, as for the sleeping, it is pretty much where we pass out haha for example, i was found on monday morning outside the tent naked in my sleeping bag laying by the fire, it turned out i had been crawling round the campsite for a few hours trying to find a cigarette and a lighter saying the sky looked like alphabet soup.... a touch worrying, but it was fun

[Chazeboy]

Haha! That sky is magic. On the Sunday the clouds kept morphing into all sorts. I was lying on the top of Pennards outside my tent as the morning fog rolled up and when I sat up and looked down the hill I really believed we were all in the clouds. I thought it was great but was a bit worried about how we were all going to get back down safely again. Sleep sorted that out. (Though not before being entertained by a stack of tissues in the tent which I thought were icebergs with tiny people walking along the ridges.)

I missed most of Sunday. Fun times!

[MissB]

can you post a link to these cheap as chips fairy lights?

[jameshunt]

We tried this once, but the horses refused to go into the tent.

[Blaze]

I had a fairly decent pop-up tent last year, one of them circular things. On the last night I still had loads of glow sticks left so I cracked them all and thew them down the side between the outer layer and inner layer, had a pretty cool effect the whole thing glowed

[mikeb]

Dressing Ye Olde Tent eh ? Hmmmmmm, now let me think of what generally happens. Arrive on site via Castle Cary. Install Ye Olde Tent in the usual place. Open door and just bung stuff various inside. Make a half-@rsed attempt to ensure normal roll mat, self inflating jobbie and sleeping bag are all ready for action at some point in time. Fill water carrier. Make a brew. Read the program. Make another brew. Read the other program. Put up flag pole with very nice solar powered flashing lighty-up thingy on top just in case I need help finding me way back Abandon tent and wander off for the ritual Site Inspection and Quality Control check: Cider Bus, Brothers Bar, Tiny Tea Tent, an hour or so up at the top of the hill beyond the Stone Circle to chill, Tiny Tea Tent, procure and enjoy munchies from one of several favourite purveyors of good stuff to munch, Brothers Bar, Cider Bus ... I mean you just gotta make sure everything is in the right place and up to the expected standard and all that before you can do anything else haven't you So that pretty much sums up arrival day really and apart from me crawling inside Ye Olde Tent amongst all the stuff various on a few occasions, nothing much changes on the campsite front until very stupid o'clock Monday morning.

As for lights/torches/whatever ... the sun seems to work well enough for me as it always appears to be up and doing it's stuff whenever I get back to the tent I stopped taking the spare torch batteries years ago cos I never used them and had taken the same ones for several years so they were getting *very* rusty and manky looking. Maybe it's time to stop taking the torch as well this year as I've never actually used that either !

Edited April 3, 2009 by mikeb

[HurrahBrother]

Pure pragmatism for me.

OK, mine is a 2 man igloo, porch is on the side. Not a huge amount of room. As I am going by public transport not much ability to pack stuff to tart the tent up.

Light wise, I have this hanging from the top of the inner.

A Car air freshener hanging over the the inners entrance (5 days, 1 bloke, 1 tent, gets a bit wiffy!)

Some cordage rigged up inside from the inner hanging clips for hanging stuff up to dry.

I have a 'folding box' I keep in the porch area, its for keeping knick-knacks, food (coffee stuff etc etc.)

Last year I moved to clipping space blankets to the outside with bulldog clips.

[jsn]

We tried this once, but the horses refused to go into the tent.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

we had fairy lights, a disco ball and flower garlands last time. don't know what we'll add to that this year.

[Josie's Cat]

Those fairy lights look ace! are they really 3 quid? Going to get me some of those, definitely!

Lol @ James Hunt, I was thinking the same thing - wondering if there was a new arena at Glasto that I hadn't heard of! The Equestrian Zone.

[WildChildRockChick]

My tip is that I always take LED battery powered fairy lights. They are cheap as chips, bright, last 40 hours and so much easier than hanging torch for late night last thing tent side drinks.

Edited April 5, 2009 by WildChildRockChick

[bombfrog]

The good lady and I have a good tent which is big enough to stand up in and we've had it for a few years now. I'm often tempted to pass out just outside the tent when I can't get my muddy boots off but I always seem to make it back to my sleeping bag.

[grumpyhack]

Outside: flagpole with daffodil windsock and two inflatable sheep on gazebo - what makes you think we're from Wales?

Solar powered garden lights to help find the way in to our encampment, hopefully without anyone tripping over the guy ropes.

Communal gazebo with hanging battery powered lanterns to illuminate our late night chat (may replace this year with LEDs). Little hanging torch lantern inside (as in Hurrahbrother's pic earlier), plus similar in each bedroom.

Home, sweet home.

Edited April 5, 2009 by grumpyhack

[MissB]

Excellent idea! Like the Christmas lights you mean? They're quite bright too, iirc.

*tries to remember where the Christmas lights have gone*

Wasn't just me with the horse thing then...

[gee24]

a wee bit of help from fellow efesters.... can anyone find me a kestral to hang from a flagpole?