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ailbheOur new swingset is awesome. The toy kitchen is out in the toy house, and that's awesome too - it was originally intended for the toy house but was too awesome for the garden initially. The garden as a whole is great at the moment, there's enough grass to play on and enough stuff to sit on and I'm tidying it up a bit and the beds have things in them and some of the flowers look amazing and the food plants are growing. Emer ate the first perfectly ripe blackberry of the season this evening.
We spent the weekend at the All Ages Gathering, a Quaker thing, quite close by. We were in our 4-man Eurohike tent which we got when I was pregnant with Emer. It's a sort of tunnel shape - I think the design is called Vis A Vis? - with a two-person sleeping pod at each end and a living area in the middle; either wall can be the door / porch roof. It weighs just over 9kg and we've used it pretty thoroughly.
It won't do any more. We can't quite cope comfortably with the sleeping room available, not without somewhere else to put luggage.
We've looked at all sorts of things. The Vaude Badawi looks nice, especially the model with three bedrooms, but it's so far out of our price range it can't see our price range even with top-of-the-line ultra-lightweight water-and-sandproof binoculars in awesome hipster colours. I'm currently looking pretty intently at the Skandika one which ticks several of our boxes - it has three sleeping rooms, Rob can stand up in the middle of it, apparently it only weighs 12.3kg, and the groundsheet for the main living area is not stitched in. It's flysheet-first, which makes it easier to keep everything dry, and at a push I could erect it myself if I had to. We'd prefer an additional 5cm headroom, but I think it'll be fine. Not having a window will be a bit weird though.
Tea and tantrums will have to wait for another post. Ah well.
We spent the weekend at the All Ages Gathering, a Quaker thing, quite close by. We were in our 4-man Eurohike tent which we got when I was pregnant with Emer. It's a sort of tunnel shape - I think the design is called Vis A Vis? - with a two-person sleeping pod at each end and a living area in the middle; either wall can be the door / porch roof. It weighs just over 9kg and we've used it pretty thoroughly.
It won't do any more. We can't quite cope comfortably with the sleeping room available, not without somewhere else to put luggage.
We've looked at all sorts of things. The Vaude Badawi looks nice, especially the model with three bedrooms, but it's so far out of our price range it can't see our price range even with top-of-the-line ultra-lightweight water-and-sandproof binoculars in awesome hipster colours. I'm currently looking pretty intently at the Skandika one which ticks several of our boxes - it has three sleeping rooms, Rob can stand up in the middle of it, apparently it only weighs 12.3kg, and the groundsheet for the main living area is not stitched in. It's flysheet-first, which makes it easier to keep everything dry, and at a push I could erect it myself if I had to. We'd prefer an additional 5cm headroom, but I think it'll be fine. Not having a window will be a bit weird though.
Tea and tantrums will have to wait for another post. Ah well.