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To lie under the sleeping bag and watch the constellations of Orion / Taurus / Libra / Scorpio slowly spiral across the night sky, and the Southern cross spin round on its axis as if it where magically connected to the earth at the South pole........ Listening to the animals of the night, and watch as things grow slowly lighter in the pre-dawn...... Then to see the sun begin to just peek above the horizon, growing into a full yellow orb, warming everything....
That for me is one of the greatest delights of camping outdoors.......
Problem is, so do the Mosquitoes..... And all the other nasty stingy / bite-y / SHREEK!-ey things that are only too willing to evict you and take up residence in a nice warm comfy .....
With this in mind, what.... 3 years ago, at a roadside junk auction, I spotted this mosquito net and proudly took it home for some ridiculously small amount of money...
I only realised afterwards that it works in conjunction with a stretcher, the stretcher holds the spring steel uprights in-place
Problem with all stretchers is that they are all too narrow for me as I like to sleep on my side with my legs curled up, so that means my knees rest on one pole and my bum lies in the curve of the mat... quite uncomfortable...
The other thing about modern stretchers is that they are too high to fit into a small 2 man tent
But all that was to change on Friday... I popped in at a second hand shop and low-and-behold they had an older camping stretcher that is low to the ground, 800mm wide & 2m long....
I snapped it up faster than a chicken picking up a corn seed.....
So on Sunday morning, (My usual camping stuff letsgofixitup routine) I put the mosquito net and the stretcher together as a unit.
Involved cutting extensions for the stretcher poles, drilling a hole in the extensions for the mosquito net up-right’s to go through, and snip-snip-Bob’s your aunt....
I can now sleep outside in peace.... Not meant for hiking / walkabout, but jolly nice when I’m static camping or car camping.....