What you having for your Tea/Dinner, tonight. ?

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What are you lot having for your Tea/Dinner, tonight? Are you going out or staying in? A Special occasion perhaps. I call It Tea, some might call it Dinner. Here's mine for tonight. Nice and simple, A La Carte, it ain't, bloody Lovely it is. ??

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AIt’s morning already ?
So its the once a week cooked breaky.
Pouch eggs on sourdough
Pork snags
Fried tomatoes with spinach and parmesan
Laced with tri colour pepper
And a mug a rosie lea.

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My idea of a cooked breakfast is porridge but I’m in Snail Five today and forgot the matches for the stupid gas stove. So it’s Cheerios the ventilated breakfast with soy milk shared with ten million midges ?‍♂️
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My idea of a cooked breakfast is porridge but I’m in Snail Five today and forgot the matches for the stupid gas stove. So it’s Cheerios the ventilated breakfast with soy milk shared with ten million midges ?‍♂️
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At last, a picture. Impressive. What's the advantage compared to a tent on the ground?
 
What did I have for my tea on Friday? That was the first evening of my mad attempt to see how feasible it is for a lady of a certain age to camp in an MG4. Caliban was on the Tesla superchargers at Fort William and the only food I could see nearby was a McDonald's. So I had Chicken McNuggets. Could have been worse.

I had taken a bag with a loaf, butter, three sorts of cheese, a couple of packets of sliced cold meat, cup-a-soups and some fruit with me. And chocolate. I existed on this until mid-afternoon on Sunday, supplemented by a cup of tea from that McDonald's at lunch-time on Sunday, as I headed out of Lochaber and into Ardnamurchan. Then I had a cappuccino with a fruit scone and cream at the tearoom by the lighthouse. I was following in @Archev's footsteps, and his advice. I had lunch there the next day, as I stayed overnight in Kilchoan and went back to do the tour of the lighthouse. Roll with tuna and millionnaire's shortbread, tea.

That was it until I was on my way home that evening, when the charging endeavour went seriously pear-shaped and I ended up here while trying to get enough charge into Caliban on a 7 kw charger to get me to Stirling.

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A story for another thread.
 
At last, a picture. Impressive. What's the advantage compared to a tent on the ground?
Not sure if there are any advantages other than you could actually camp where there was no campsite. The tent is easy to set up and stood up to three nights wonderfully well. The first night I was at Sanna beach a few miles northwest of the Ardnamurchan lighthouse. I pulled in to a wee loop of ground left after realignment of the road many years ago. That was my first time setting up and using the tent. It was a glorious day and a very peaceful night except for that marauding beast that guards the glens Culicoides impunctatans. I tell you if those things were the size of crocodiles they’d be scary. As it is they amply make up for their lack of stature with sheer numbers. They’re after your blood, any blood group will do. I wasn’t going to cook as I’d forgotten the matches (poor excuse) so I retreated to th car and had a pack of beef jerky, tomatoes and oatcakes with cheese. A couple of oranges served as dessert and it was all washed down with Tesco’s orange juice with bits.
I then went upstairs to bed, a luxurious roomy Berghaus Indulge sleeping bag. The tent has a built I foam mat so that was it other than a pillow.
The en-suite worked well.
Between the tent being double skinned and it being a beautiful warm night I had to unzip the sleeping bag and open the “windows” for ventilation. There was a bit of condensation but easily wiped off with a micropore towel.
Luckily there was no one around as I exited next morning “this is a small step from an MG …a giant leap for a daft pensioner “
So setting up, comfort, warmth all were grand.
It’s a wee bit low - about a metre inside so a bit restricting for changing clothes (and a bit of a nuisance if one’s leg takes cramp half way through)
I might take the fold up electric bike next time for shopping/ coffee trips and leave the tent up although it only takes minutes to fold up.
My second night was in the camp site at Kilchoan where again the weather was perfect. I found my can of “Smidge” repellent by then so that night was more comfortable.
I plugged into the wee type 2 charger round at Ardnamurchan light house whilst i had a comfort and coffee and ham roll and cream scone for lunch.
Then I drove to catch the Mull ferry from Lochaline to Fishnish. Once on Mull I headed round via Salen and on to the glories of the Gribun cliffs.
I drove on down to Fionnphort opposite Iona and stayed at Fidden camp site.
The slugs can't get in.
i did
 
I'm so fired up with how well I got on that I'm thinking about where else I can go. The other good thing about it related to the cat. I figured out how to leave enough food for him for four days, by offsetting the time on the cat feeders by 12 hours, and doubling up some meals. He knew I was packing for something on Friday and was discombobulated. He obviously expected to be scooped up and transported to the cattery (two miles away, run by a lovely lady who just loves all her guests to bits, but he's been there three times this summer already). So he made himself scarce as soon as I'd given him breakfast. Good. That left the coast clear for me to dish up his lunch in his usual dish and leave it for him, and then set up the cat feeders with full rations through to lunch on Monday. I was away before he came back in. When I got home there was a sort of chirrup of "oh, back at last then?" and he wasn't even slightly fazed. It was much later than I had intended (see the "don't tell The MacMaster" thread for what happened after we parted) but I gave him his delayed tea, then an hour or so later when I was ready to go to bed he got supper, and we were quits. How long do you usually stay away at a time?

As far as getting undressed is concerned, I just did it out in the open. I had a secluded parking site the first two nights, although when I was getting dressed the first morning a guy did cycle in while I was putting on my bra. If I'd expected that I could have been using the open car door as a modesty screen. Well, you know what they say, if he's a gentleman he won't see, and if he's not a gentleman it won't matter. At Kilchoan, you know the pitch I was on. Car nose in to the hedge/trees, tailgate to the other pitches. Although the pitch to my left was occupied, the lower one to the right was empty. I simply opened the rear passenger door on the right side of the car and got undressed/dressed behind the door, with my flight bag on the load bed inside the door. Might not have been so easy if the lower pitch had been occupied.

It's the ventilation/heating that really sells me on staying inside the car. So extremely comfortable to have a constant, gentle stream of fresh air at exactly the temperature you want it. A' mheanbh-chuileagan were the major drawback, and I don't find repellants really do the business. The loss of the bite-away wand was a real blow. I've got it back now, and even given it a fresh battery, so I'll have another go at the lesions tonight. Rain would be another serious bummer. The German couple at Kilchoan, who were sleeping in a van, had a sort of lean-to tent to address this.

Back to food. I just threw some staples in a bag. A fresh loaf, a tub of butter, about three sorts of cheese, packets of sliced ox tongue and corned beef, a few tomatoes, a couple of apples and bananas, and some cup-a-soups. Also tea bags, coffee, sugar and salt. Basic cutlery, paper plates, a mug. The only disaster was the pint of milk, that didn't survive Saturday's temperatures. I hadn't intended to rely on these provisions as much as I did, the idea was mainly to have something for breakfast and possibly a before-bed snack. However there is absolutly bugger-all to buy along Loch Arkaig, and all the (numerous) campers had brought their own. I absolutely loved the place and wasn't driving 14 miles back to An Gearasdan just to find fast food. Another time I might look for some pot noodles or boil in the bag things.

I only took four litres of water, which probably wasn't enough when it had to do for washing as well, but there's a limit to how much I wanted to carry. Of course there's plenty water about, I just need to make the effort to walk down to the loch-side with the empties.

And all this is in the wrong thread.

I had crumpets with melted cheese on top this evening. I am missing a pre-molar, and eating very gingerly.
 
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Pan fried (a wee bit too much) Salmon, boiled potatoes and some mixed veg from the freezer. Absolutely delicious served with my usual Tesco’s orange juice with bits ?
 
At last, a picture. Impressive. What's the advantage compared to a tent on the ground?
Not sure if there are any advantages other than you could actually camp where there was no campsite. The tent is easy to set up and stood up to three nights wonderfully well. The first night I was at Sanna beach a few miles northwest of the Ardnamurchan lighthouse. I pulled in to a wee loop of ground left after realignment of the road many years ago. That was my first time setting up and using the tent. It was a glorious day and a very peaceful night except for that marauding beast that guards the glens Culicoides impunctatans. I tell you if those things were the size of crocodiles they’d be scary. As it is they amply make up for their lack of stature with sheer numbers. They’re after your blood any blood group will do. I wasn’t going to cook as I’d forgotten the matches (poor excuse) so I retreated to the car and had a pack of beef jerky, tomatoes and oatcakes with cheese. A couple of oranges served as dessert and it was all washed down with Tesco’s orange juice with bits.
I then went upstairs to bed, a large luxurious Berghaus Indulge item which has an adjustable hood which securely holds a pillow in place so that even if you turn over, the pillow stays right there not fired over to the other side of the tent.
 
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