Christmas Wild Camping! 🎄🎅 + Cooking Christmas Dinner in the Rain under a Tarp

Hi Wambos, I'm here in the woods today, under my tarp, in the rain, for a Christmas camp. Look, a Christmas tree! The idea is, I want to have my Christmas tree in there. I'm so excited! It's going to be amazing if you guys are ready for this. I've put leaves all along the back there, and that's just going to keep the wind, any breeziness out, on this side of the tarp. We're going to pretend the rain is snow, but I've got my Christmas tree. I've also got, oh my god, so much cooking stuff. I've got three stoves, loads of crockery and stuff, because I'm going to try and cook a Christmas dinner. Some kind of semblance of a Christmas dinner anyway. We'll see how that goes. Yeah, this is lovely, it's so cosy. First things first, I'm going to get all my bed and everything set out, get that floofing up ready for later. It's not going to be too cold, but we definitely still want to be nice and cosy, because it's really damp. Hello! Merry Christmas! Right, let's get going. I've got my little table today, my little hiking table, which I don't usually bring, but since I'm bringing everything but the kitchen sink today anyway, I thought it'd be handy when I'm cooking a big meal to have a sturdy surface. I've got a little candle as well tonight, I'll light that later. It's going to be so Christmassy. It's getting dark now, so I'm going to get my nice, cosy clothes on. I know I said it before, but there was something so cosy about being under a tarp in the rain. I'm going to see a nap. I think I'm going to start prepping my dinner. I've got turkey breast, I've got potato, I'm going to make some mashed potato. I've got carrots, stuffing, pigs in blankets, gravy. I've also got a mince pie and some brandy butter, and I've got Baileys as well. Hopefully it will work. It's going to be a little bit chaotic, I think. I don't know if I can pull this one off, but I'll give it a go. I'm going to use this big pan for my potato, and I'm going to put my carrots in this one. Yay! So I've got three stoves today. I've got two gas stoves, and my trangia as well. Massive, full-size pan. Keep meaning to get something lighter for this kind of thing, but there you go. Potatoes on there. Carrots on there. My carrots and potatoes are boiling, so I'm going to start cooking the other stuff now. And stuffing balls. I think I'm going to get these potatoes mashed now. So in my tado, some butter, just chuck all that in. A bit of salt, a bit of pepper. Oh yeah, that looks good. Baby. I'm using the carrot water to make my gravy. Yay! Christmas dinner in the woods. I'm going to enjoy this. That is so good. My coffee, and I've finished my little drinky. That's nice. I'll have my mince pie, and then I'm going to get ready for bed. It's really mild tonight, actually. About seven degrees, so really nice and warm compared to last night that went into minus. Night, world ones. Time for Ed's sweet dreams. Good morning, you guys. It's a lovely morning under my tarp. The rain's stopped, but it's still coming down from the trees and stuff. It's really gorgeous. I struggled to get to sleep last night because some massive tree came crashing down. I don't know where, but it was quite close by. Just went, put me on edge a bit. I mean, I do check above me whenever I sit up, that I don't think there's anything that's going to fall on me, but yeah. And then I had what I assume was like a little mouse or a shrew or something just burrowing around, around my head. And I don't know if it was maybe just under the booby bag, but all I was thinking is, oh my god, what if it's actually in my booby bag? What if we've got a mouse in my booby bag? And, you know, when you're just sort of like so tired, I could barely open my eyes and I was just like, I don't know whether to get up and look for a mouse in my bag or not. I sort of just sort of fell back to sleep eventually. But yeah, that went on for ages. I did wake up to a nice puddle down here on my ground sheet. That's because my tarp is too high. The ridge line is too high, so there's not enough coverage for my ground tarp. That's because I wanted it over the Christmas tree there. So that's OK. And it doesn't matter anyway, because all my sleep stuff is in the booby bag and I could sleep in a puddle and I wouldn't know any different. I'd be nice and toasty and dry. I'm just going to finish this chocolate coffee and then I am going to get out of here. So I just want to wish you guys the best Christmas ever. Merry Christmas. I hope you have the best time with everyone that you love the most. And I hope Santa brings you something nice for being so good this year. I've been naughty, apparently, but that's OK. I guess I will see you in the new year. Have a good one, guys. Take care.