A Windy Weekend Camping

[BeardyMan]

Got back from a weekend of camping yesterday.

Good weather for it, if you like it cold, wet and windy.
Very good opportunity for testing some new gear though, and I learnt a few things too.

Mainly:
1 - I don't need anywhere near the amount of stuff I took. I could quite happily have just taken a German mess set, the swedish down filled sleeping bag and bivi.
2 - Those inflatable sleep mats are quite slippery. Waking up with just your head and shoulders inside the tent is quite disorientating initially.
3 - Cheap tent pegs are crap.
4 - Polish army teepee tents are very good, but with the crap pegs don't expect it to stay upright in storm force gales.
5 - Going to sleep in the tent, then waking up not in the tent as it's blown over is also quite disorientating initially
6 - Electric fences are not that nice to touch.

and finally

7 - when you're very, very drunk and you've fallen face first in the mud - don't expect your friends to react to your call of "MAN DOWN" with anything apart from hysterical laughter...