the happy little world of miss ktp!

..the camping bug! We decided to escape the hustle & bustle of London for 3 days & headed 35min down the road to a lovely peaceful campsite in Loughton. It was great to think that we don't have to drive for hours & hours to feel cut off from our every day lives & hopefully this'll mean we'll have a weekend away more often After about an hour we got the tent up which wasn't so bad seeing as we'd never done it on our own before. Once we'd been to the little cafe for a jacket potato we came back & tweaked it slightly seeing as the ground sheet was a bit wonky then we were ready to start furnishing our little home away from home. Since our first camping trip we've been stocking up on things we've seen on sale (as well as a few additions from mum&dad) so now we've got lots of things to make us feel more comfortable. We decided to take a wander into Epping Forest where the campsite backed onto & found a scrummy blackberry bus...

It had to happen one day.....Adam & I needed a holiday, had very little money & wanted to go somewhere with mates so the dreaded C word was brought up....camping. Argh! This was my face when Art first mentioned it to me...... After a bit of persuasion I was convinced to give it a go & last weekend was that very weekend. Off we went to Edale in the Peak District with a hole in my sleeping bag, no walking shoes only Doc Martens, skinny jeans (& a dress packed for the last day in celebration that I'd survived if I made it that far) lots of layers, a partly waterproof coat & a huge can of dry shampoo. You may note that the key thing in camping was missing - a tent. We didn't own one so borrowed a spare one from Art. In the pics below I was still smiling, though it was gradually turning more & more into hysteria as we headed deeper into the countryside. I'm normally a proper country bumpkin & love being surrounded by trees & fields but as I...