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Blog posts from April 2011

1. Escape the Royal Wedding!

   April 18, 2011
   by Laura Canning | events

   
   
   

   
   
   

   
   

   
   No doubt you’ll have discovered by now that, wherever in the world you are, it’s impossible to escape the royal ruddy wedding (apparently on Pitchup.com too, but bear with us). I’m on holiday in a far distant land at the moment, and picked up a …

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2. Camping in literature

   April 14, 2011
   by Laura Canning | guides

   
   
   

   
   Like camping in TV and film, camping in books is split into two, erm, camps. There's the 'Off we go a-camping in the Dell' type of children's books such as
   
   Swallows and Amazons
   
   and pretty much any Enid Blyton book not set in a boarding school, where rosy-cheeked …

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3. Camp Fire Cooking

   April 5, 2011
   by Laura Canning | guides

   Now that we've experimented with the best way to build a campfire , we thought we'd try and figure out how to cook on the thing without relying on army freeze-dried meals, hooking out charred tins of beans with a stick, or eating only the (albeit very yummy) s'more . …

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