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Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Were Incidental

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July 30, 2010
Five Dials issue 13 the Festival Issue

A review of the Woodstock music festival as a failed camping holiday.
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The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars

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July 30, 2010
Cath and Math camping The Art of Camping

I am pleased to announce that my book The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars will be published next year July 2011 by Hamish Hamilton, as reported in the Bookseller.
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Our tent, the Vaude Badawi II

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July 19, 2010
Vaude Badawi II tent pitched beside a campfire in the Lake District

We get asked about our tent. Here is a brief appreciation of its charms.
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Seven Things Every Camper Should Own

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July 9, 2010
Seven Things Every Camper Should Own

I contributed to The Guardian’s G2 camping trip with a brief list of essential camping gear. The Guardian writers camped not far from where I live, at Wowo, which Cath and I visited earlier in the year. I provided a list of seven items, one of which was salad, inspired by Cath’s five-a-day barbecue...
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Secret campsites – Dernwood Farm

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July 7, 2010
Secret campsites – Dernwood Farm

Our second visit to Dernwood Farm in the heart of the Sussex Weald offered a completely different perspective to this wild campsite from our first; at the Lovewood festival we pitched beneath a pylon at the wrong end of the field. On our return, we pitched at the entrance of a glade, a patch...
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Cloud Farm campsite

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July 1, 2010
Cloud Farm campsite

Sunset at Cloud Farm confers a brief moment of well-being,
and memories of old friends from The Idler magazine.
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