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I have a suspected stress fracture in my right foot and this year’s weather appears to be mostly flooding. So Frood<\/a> decided our imminent annual camping trip must be a departure from our usual bike-based, lightweight style. It shall be ‘plush’.<\/p>\n

To this end this morning (we were supposed to leave today but there are flood warnings for the Highlands) we drove down to Tisos<\/a> in Leith and purchased ourselves one of these:<\/p>\n


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I felt an odd sense of betrayal. My lightweight, kit-fetish, gear-geek nature was offended that I should be buying this great hunk of appliance weighing nearly 6kg (which is about 3 times the weight of our tent, and nearly as much as my Pinarello weighs). Why was I purchasing this monstrosity of a stove when right next to it was the Primus Himalaya Omni-Fuel<\/a>, complete with wooden presentation box: a spider-web light, steampunk joy of a thing that can burn anything you throw at it except possibly yak dung? Why was I turning my back on my MSR Pocket Rocket, nestled so snugly within my MSR titanium mug? Why was I spending what strikes me as being a small fortune to get something for which I also needed to buy a gas cylinder I won’t be able to use with anything else and yet which cost about as much as the stove?<\/p>\n

Was I doing this just for toast<\/i>? I don’t even eat toast! And we have a toasty thing for our other stove anyway!<\/p>\n

Dammit, I own a titanium spork!<\/p>\n

“We’re going plush camping,” Frood told me. “And you know what else it will be good for?”<\/p>\n

Of course! The Dumb Run! Never mind disposable barbies and sossajes: we can do bacon and egg butties on the beach at St Andrews with this! That should see us to the end, even if we are bringing about Armegeddon.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s all right then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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