sleeping

This guy needs help, but I'm not sure if it is Camping Anonymous or AA he needs. While this tent is super light weight, the bottle required to give you a good nights sleep in it is quite heavy.

Check out this sleeping bag - a swag-prefering bloke could nearly use this.

The management at the makers of the Therm-a-rest aren't sleeping very well these days. The traditional Therm-a-rest have long been the market leaders in camp beds with their designs copied all over the world. All that's set to change.

It comes down to this - why sleep on 2.5cm of comfort when for the same weight you can sleep on over twice that at 6cm?

Pacific Outdoors is just one of many companies making mats that resemble the older air bed than a self inflating mat. Consisting largely of large deep tubes filled with air you'd think you were sleeping on, well... air.

The difference now is that these are not just empty inside (however some models are). Inside is insulation that allows you to use these mats in all sorts of conditions, not just the height of summer.

I hate sleeping bags.

They end up in knots around my legs.

And image wise - latte sipping city kids use sleeping bags, real men use swags. And I don't want my kids growing up like that so I made them some swags.

Here's how.

First, I bought a second hand industrial sewing machine from ebay - $160. It took me a bit of fiddling to get it sorted but now it goes like a diesel on gas.

Second, I got hold of an old canvas tent. It was a mate's. Someone had given it to him because it had no poles, so he gave it to me.

Third, I cut of the canvas tent and ran up four bed rolls.

Easy really.

And now my kids won't grow up to be latte sipping nancy city boys.