Fabulous New Fashion chat - Dressed up or Down - Everyone Welcome!! (Part 3)

piratefairy

No, they do donate them. It was our "turn" last yr, I guess they have various different places they donate to perhaps.
RW, yes, still have to create all sorts of wash stands, plate-bag holders, and mug trees from canes - in fact one of the other leaders has her eye on some hazel at the local school whcih she is going to ask the head if she can 'coppice' for us to use...

goanmad

RainyWednesday wrote: »

Forgot to add - also got a faux-fur gillet and a gold lurex cardigan from Oxfam at lunchtime, both cheap but nicer than they sound, honest.

Funnily enough I was toying with a gold lurex cardi in Scope earlier! You can't beat a faux fur gillet, TopShop are flogging them again this year.

Alexnikov

Rainy - wow, some brave and bold life changes coming up for you! Hope it all turns out wonderfully

I miss camping under canvas. We had great patrol tents when I was in Guides and doing the brailling and airing the tents was part of the fun. Much as I love my lightweight tent now, it doesn't have as much charm and it's sad that people don't learn all the old skills like tent care and how to make washing up stands and all sorts of gadgets out of canes and twine.

*nostalgic sigh*

eta - Char's guides aside, obviously...

RainyWednesday

Mariel - like you I am surprised about V donating the tents. A lovely idea, maybe it's not such a bad festival after all...

PF - I'm delighted about the canes, I used to think I was a dab hand at it but it always resulted in total collapsing disasters, usually with someone getting soaked.

Goan - yes I saw them in the window of topshop on my way through town, the picture in the window had one layered over a leather jacket, then I saw this one in Oxfam for £2.99, it was a bit of a no-brainer. I already have a cream one but this is grey tones so should look nice over denim or black leather. Autumn layering looks like it is here after all

piratefairy

See, we're a bit odd, as we still do the traditional things in some respect - gadget wood etc..bu we have moved on to the lightweight tents (whch i'm fairly glad about beacause i haven't got a hope in hell of finding anywhere to take them home and dry them if we had a rainy camp..lightweigt's will just about go on the dryer at least)

Did you used to have to do bedding-rolls, Alex? My friedn's mum and I have been having this debate recently..I think they're good. She (the most traditional guider i know) has given up on them!

piratefairy

RainyWednesday wrote: »

PF - I'm delighted about the canes, I used to think I was a dab hand at it but it always resulted in total collapsing disasters, usually with someone getting soaked.

Don't worry - I am AWFUL at it too

Alexnikov

Yup, I used to do bedding rolls and still do! By far the most practical way of hauling your bedding around IMO, and the extra groundsheet works wonders if it's damp (and it always rains on camp). I know some guide units that have switched to laundry bags to store bedding but that doesn't strike me as particularly clever - if it rains when you're setting up camp then everything's still going to get wet.

I'm quite whizzy at gadget making

piratefairy

grrrrr!
i still can't leave any comments on blogs

ETA - I LOVE bedding rolls, if they're done properly they keep everything dry, and it means they can pull out the bedding to air during breakfast..
Also a good way to transport it all IMO. Really suprises me that friend's mum doesn't approve of them anymore, she says they are pointless because of the fact that the new tents hve groudnsheets built in..
Seems to be the debate f the moment between leaders haha, but it was a real annoyance when we went on camp as she told her lot not to, and i told mine to bring them. Which caused confusion as we were all campoing as a big group

Alexnikov

My tent has an inbuilt groundsheet but it's always leaked when the weather is really bad. So I've got an extra groundsheet that goes under it and the one from my bedding roll that goes in the bedroom.

We were hardcore in the guiding days - on the practice day you made your bedding roll and a hosepipe got turned on it to see if you'd made it properly.

piratefairy

We used to play catch with them. Not mean enough for a hosepipe - quite!