One week to go and so much to do....parties parties and more parties! Oh what a hassle, how will we cope? Talking of parties (Bah humbug me if you will) it will be nice to leave behind the crazy Christmas-Ness that has already started... The street councils have the brains of barnacles and seem to be getting confused as to whether Halloween lights or Christmas lights are the order of the day. It's October for fooks sake!!
Anyhoo, although the tin can trangia was a success the amount of meths needed to boil a wee bit of water, suggests we would need to be hooked up to an entire resevoir of the stuff to produce a slurp of tea. Ergo, we may resort to a hexi-burner type of stove for our lighter version of a trangia.
Due to a finite source of funds and horrendously boring monetary situation we may have to subsitute the awesomeness of the brand spanking new Primus Omnilite Ti stove (which Ranaz has been orgasming over since he read the press release), in its titanium beauty and total weight of 239g, and lower fuel consumption blah blah blah ... For the Pocket Rocket, which in all fairness is adequate ( who wants to be just adequate though?), for our needs and is a fraction of the price, is a reliable little stove, and is adequate....
The need for two stoves is because the trangia is fantastic for cooking proper meals, which I love doing when camping, none of the boil in the bag, constipation inducing meals for me thank you very much. But crap when time is an issue...its takes ages. The little gas stoves on the other hand are great for boiling water, but tend to be unstable and not good for cooking gourmet meals for two at the foot of the crags.
Apart from geeky stove discussions, I have an inordinate number of contact lenses to buy, a carboot sale to organise, a room to tidy, doctors and dentists to visit, plane tickets to book, parents to visit and lots and lots of luverly parties to go to...all in a week. Better get cracking.
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