After ironing my freshly washed duvet cover I laid it across two chairs to prevent creasing whilst I wrestled with the pillow cases. Closer inspection of the duvet cover / chair set up revealed that I had in fact generated a type of indoor tent... I have now abandoned the ironing and am sitting in the aforementioned tent with my laptop, a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and for comfort, a large cushion. Provisions I have on which to survive include a bottle of diet coke, three rice cakes and half a bar of dairy milk... :suspect: Well I'm sorted for Saturday night now anyway :P :thumbsup:

Do you reckon I could get a takeaway delivered too? :D

Sounds like fun, Zen is one of my favorite books.

Originally posted by carcrash
Sounds like fun, Zen is one of my favorite books.

:D Seconded, this is probably my third or fourth reading :P I've yet to read Lila though.

It's rare that adults make dens to play in these days. maybe that's why people are so stressed out. I used to throw a duvet case over a couple of chairs and pretend it was a space ship and the cat was my co-pilot. Maybe I'll do that again tomorrow.

My kids used to do this.

It always annoyed the hell out of me, because they would mess up their beds, invite their friends over, and they even wanted to eat all their meals in there.

One day, after my boy refused to come out, I crawled in there with him. It was actually very nice. Sort of like being in a cave. The blankets muffled outside sound, and the light wasn't so bright.

Maybe someone should make and sell big 'blanket' tents for adults? I'd buy one.

:) Sierra

I was once based in a large rambling farm house and it was absolutely freezing. I made a blanket tent with the thinnest of two blankets and then got my little electric fan heater to blow hot air into it, I survived the night without getting hypothermia and I just thanked my lucky stars that I'd played like this when I was a child .

Originally posted by TracieJC
:D Seconded, this is probably my third or fourth reading :P I've yet to read Lila though.

I've not managed Lila, though have a well battered copy of 'Zen and the Art....'.

A lot in that book is also amazingly relevant to building electronic dooberries...:) I enjoyed the book immensley - I may even go and dig t out and get it in to my reading list for next week.

And as for tent building - sounds great!

Joe :)

YAY for tent building! I remember many happy hours as a kid beuilding tents (evem complexes of interconnected tents :o ) with blankets and sheets. Luckilly we were blessed with many airers which make perfect indoor tent scaffolding :)

i darent mention what my other half got up to in a wendy house and a make shift tent with a clothes horse!!!:heyhey:

Originally posted by TracieJC
Do you reckon I could get a takeaway delivered too? :D
Mmmmm! :P Freshly ironed, curry flavoured sheets - my favourite flavour!

But seriously, I took to the cave under my desk with my laptop to keep the quivering hound company during the fireworks. He's right. It does feel safer under there!

And tent building? Take an ordinary wendy house, chuck away the roof diagonals, make a square with the long bits and the 90 degree corners, add the normal uprights and use the obtuse angles as feet.

Hey presto - a frame for something twice the size, for twice as many friends (until Mum catches you with her sheets :( )

As well as tents, I used to go 'tunneling' under the sheets.

Armed with my trusty torch I'd go under the sheets and pretend I was in a cave.

Never considered the possibility of suffocating...:)

We had a set of bunkbeds that fitted into an alcove with room to spare. A blanket turned the bottom bunk into the usual den, but by bracing yourself against the wall it was possible to ascend to the 'roof'. Our den had a 'lift' :thumbsup:

Originally posted by JoePritchard
As well as tents, I used to go 'tunneling' under the sheets.

Armed with my trusty torch I'd go under the sheets and pretend I was in a cave.

Never considered the possibility of suffocating...:)

Joe what did youu eat for tea???
When i was little and the monster was trying to get me everyone knew the way to stay safe was to hide under your blankets as if it couldn't see you it couldn't get you. However then you were stuck you couldn't get out of bed as it might be hiding under the bed and grab your feet!!!! Mother was not impresses at my crashes as I tried to leap from the bed to the door several feet away in the dark yto get the light switch.