Cath Kidston has gone camping with it’s new range of outdoor homeware. The middle classes favourite supplier of vintage, retro-chic glamping accessories has outdone itself this year with some cool camping gear that will enliven any campsite.

Badge Blanket

Cath Kidston Badge Blanket

The Badge blanket references your scouting days with it’s retro badges depicting classic British imagery. However this time you won’t need to tie 8 unfathomable knots to have the honour of owning the badges. The 166×166 cm blanket is 50% wool and 50% man made fibre with a quaint strap to hold it in place before that picnic you’ve been hankering after all summer. The badge blanket buys you a little bit of your childhood back for £60.

Hurricane Lantern

Hurricane Lantern

The hand painted Hurricane Lantern is very much a statement of style of lighting power but it’s effortless chic will put anyone’s ’torch’ to shame. The 34×14.5cm paraffin lantern is bargain at £8.

Cherry 2 Person Picnic Hamper

Cath Kidston Cherry Picnic Basket

The Cherry 2 person picnic hamper is bursting with 1950s camping style and includes two cherry tea plates, two salt and pepper cellars, two cherry arcylic tumblers, two cherry napkins, two cutlery sets and a cherry sandwich box. The Cherry 2 person picnic hamper will set you back £85.

Check Rug

Cath Kidston Check Rug

The Cath Kidston check rug is ideal for spreading on the floor of a teepee or to replace the blanket that’s sat in the back of the Range Rover for the last three summers is starting to look a little tired. It’s striped pattern co-ordinates beautifully with the Cath Kidston camping range making the purchase of a complete set an almost nessecity. The Check Rug is £30.

Cherry Cool Bag

Cherry Cool Bag

The Cherry cool bag makes a sometimes ugly object beautiful again. The satisfaction in cracking open a cool Chardonnay after a maddening drive down to Devon on a bank holiday makes camping worthwhile. The Cherry Cool Bag is made of PVC coated 100% cotton duck and costs £30.

Last years range

As Cath Kidston refreshes it’s range every year you may have missed out on their range of chic tents, but fear not! These things can be found on eBay…

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Natalie from Ambloguity writes about her conversion to glamping. If you have a camping experience to share visit our Camping Essentials Page

Tears and tipis. How I got into glamping

Crowded tents, torrential rain and the constant fear of being washed away lead me to the same conclusion as my Glastonbury attendance, not to mention my age, increases. Dragging myself out of my small and sodden tent, I gaze toward the sky from Pennard Hill and squint my eyes enviously at the field of beautiful white tipis that dot the skyline.

Camping has always been one of my favourite ways to spend summer weekends; ever since I was little I remember tucking into a tin of cold beans and playing football with my brother at many of the campsites lining the Gower. But as I get older, it’s not my enthusiasm for camping that wavers, but my ability to spend a stony night under the stars without thinking of my home comforts or secretly dreaming of an airbed to rest my aging muscles on.

Accepting that I’m no longer the girl that I once was, there comes a time when I must put my pride, and my stay-up-and-party-whatever-the-weather reputation aside, and be true to my bodily desires of warmth and comfort. Is it wrong that whilst only still in my early twenties I can’t quite swallow the nostalgia of marshmallows by the fire and long for a quiet B&B instead? Regardless of your judgments, I have found a way to rediscover my youthful spirit, as well as my faith in the outdoor pursuit, and re-enter the world of happy campers.

Let’s be frank here. No one’s getting any younger, and as the world’s luxurious commodities become a necessity, and far too easy to come by, why should us bright young things accept anything less? Enter ‘glamping’. An exciting new way to indulge in the life outdoors, and let’s be honest, a far more enjoyable way to spend what is most likely to be a wet weekend in Wales or a five-day torrential downpour at Glastonbury.

Bye-bye to generic, tiny and infinitely frustrating tents and hello to glamour in every aesthetic sense. Regardless of your choice of shape, size or colour, the tents on offer in the glamping experience tick all the right boxes – be it comfort or style. My favourite site to peruse glamping porn is Go Glamping.

With enough room to pop your champagne cork without danger of an eye injury and most importantly room to comfortably rest one’s head, once tried there is no going back. I don’t care how many scoffs I may endure from my more adventurous friends. Whilst they are still waking from half-hearted sleeps and rubbing sore necks, I am lavishing in all of glamping’s delights.

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