So I Am Trying Not To Panic. I specifically put in a request Upstairs for sunshine this month. I submitted it in plenty of time and in writing - how can it have been ignored? Is it too late to go to church and start praying? I realise with dismay that there is only one Sunday left before we go, and that God may well discern that there is a teeny bit of self-interest in my new-found devotion.
Giving up on religion I turn to science and check out the long range weather forecast. Next weekend is predicted to be cloudy but not too much rain. A glimmer of hope lifts me from my despondency. Maybe it won't be too foul after all...although given the famous unpredictability of the British weather I may still pop into church on Sunday just in case.....
I have just taken my new Vango 85 quid sleeping bag with me on a weekend camping trip with my daughter and her friends - it was hopeless (the sleeping bag, not the camping trip). I now realise that the reason it is as light as a paper bag is because it may as well be made of paper for the amount of warmth it affords. Even in my lovely Warmbac "sleepsuit" (see below) I was freezing and, despite also donning two more jumpers, I still strayed into the edges of hypothermia. I finally gave in and ungallantly nicked a sleeping bag off the kids' bed. (I hear your howls of outrage but they were fine in their £10.99 sleeping bags plus quilt. Well, ok, they were complaining a little, but that's what 14-year-olds do) -and I resolved there and then to return the Vango as it was pretty much useless.
Cavers are more sartorially discerning than you might think and here is your proof. These "furries" are for wearing under oversuits but they are also brilliant for camping, or for just snuggling into on those colder winter evenings. Check out
caveclimb for the full range. Unfortunately they are too bulky to take cycling though.
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