The ultimate family camping packing list

This list has evolved over several years of camping with family and friends.

I love a good list and a packing list for camping is invaluable.

Hope you can use it, feel free to share it. And let me know if you’ve stuff to add to it.

Happy camping!

Tent, pegs, mallet

Gaffer tape, fabsil

Airbeds, Pump and batteries

Phones/iPads/Bluetooth speaker/chargers

Sleeping bags, Pillows, Duvet, Blankets

Kettle, Saucepan, frying pan, chopping board

Cutlery

Washing up bowl, sponges, liquid, tea towel, kitchen towel, foil, bin bags

Foil pie plates

Plates, bowls, cups, wine glasses

Cool bag/ box and cold packs

Knife, egg slice, whisk, wooden spoon, bottle/tin opener, cheese grater, bbq tongs

Toys: outdoor toys, bucket & spade, colouring in books, pencil case, books, Cuddlies

Soap bags, Towels, Flannels, Toilet roll

Lanterns, torches, batteries

Cooker, gas, matches

Bbq

Tables, Chairs

Dustpan and brush

Bunting, flag, pole

Fairy lights

Clothes, (warm stuff for cold evenings, cool stuff for warm days, waterproof jackets, swimmers) shoes (flip flops, beach shoes for pebbly beach, trainers, wellies)

Fruit, breakfast cereal, tea bags, snacks, biscuits, crisps, squash

Marshmallows and sticks

Wine boxes

Beach mats, body boards

headtorch,

yoga mat, yoga clothes,

travel wash

pegs,

scissors

Expect Nothing by Alice Walker for #NationalPoetryDay

I love this poem. I try to live it. Not always succeeding, but hey!

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Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.

Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.

Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.

Said a tiny Ant by Spike Milligan for #NationalPoetryDay

Said a tiny Ant

To the Elephant

“Mind how you tread in this clearing!”

But alas! Cruel fate!

She was crushed by the weight.

Of an Elephant, hard of hearing.

Spike Milligan

Hello. I am Alan Stoob, Britain’s Premier Nazi Hunter

Alan is married to Edame. They’re due to retire to Bournemouth. They love a Bergerac box set and an afternoon session on the port. They’ve had their troubles, past indiscretions that occasionally return to bother them, troubled offspring with complex families of their own.

But it’s a loving relationship – fun and fruity. Well as fruity as Alan can manage. Broadly all is calm in Dunstable, Beds, until the original Nazi Hunter and fax-lover Simon Weisenthal recruits Alan out of retirement to take over his mission.

And so the thriller begins.

How distractable are you?

I know how psychopath I am. Northern I am? London? Posh? Millennial? And how down with the kids. Bring it on Facebook, this is cheaper than a therapist. Maybe we’ll eventually get down to how I can get on with doing what I’m avoiding with all this displacement activity.

Awake at 3.45 again

Two hours later, I’m writing a post. I need to find a good book if this keeps happening, otherwise I’ll just get lost in Internet wormholes like this one:

For those who post about waking up at 3 AM http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2258016/pg1

An idle Google search reveals, that amongst the exhausted parents awake at this time are a bunch of folks convinced this is the devil’s hour.

i think I’m more prosaically worrying about surviving a work day that started three hours too soon.

Don’t look for happiness, fulfil your micro ambitions passionately

Tim Minchin addressing UWA.

Celebrate the things you support he says. Don’t just organise around the things you oppose. A fair point amongst many.

Life is meaningless, fill it and enjoy.