Wet Camping! 20Hrs in my Tent in the Rain • Merry Christmas Wild Ones

Hello world ones, it is a gorgeous rainy day and I'm out to have a night in the woods in a tent. It's my first night out in nearly four months I think so I'm thrilled to be out. This is going to be a lovely simple night, really cosy. I'm just going to be hunkering down under the canvas or the DCF. I've got one of my favourite tents out tonight, it's my Durston X-Mid Pro 1 and I bought that out because I love how it opens on both sides. I've got this side strapped up to a tree, that side propped up on a nice long stick and I've got nice views of my surroundings and I love how it's really thin and I can see the rain through the tent as well. It's not very stealthy of course but at least if the hunters come into the woods I'll be less likely to get shot. Right let me show you inside my little home for the night. All right so amazing views and here I've got an obscene amount of pillows and my wedge pillow so I'm kind of glamping at the moment and I've got these rubbery bits to hopefully stop everything sliding around. I'll see how that goes later. It's the bait mat and stuff and my electronics, clothes, sleeping bag and this is all my cook stuff here. Oh shout out lovely Karen at Colours Gone Wild, I'll have a little drinky later from that. Yeah it's going to be well cosy. Okay time to get nice and dry and get a nice bit of dinner ready. It's so good. I've got some water heating up for a nice hot drink down there and I'm going to get going on these baps now. I think these are going to be bloody gorgeous and I've got enough for probably three baps but that's good because we've got a really long night of darkness. I think it gets dark before four o'clock now, really early, so I'm going to need lots of bapage. Oh how do I get my mayo out of there? I can't get my mayo out. I mean it's a good job this isn't a cooking programme isn't it? That bap was amazing and it's kind of apt to be having Christmas baps today because lovely Karen at Colours Gone Wild, she loves people to show her their baps so I hope you liked my bap there Karen. And I thought I'd try something which I think is a really important experiment for mankind. I want to see if I can heat up a mince pie on an electric hand warmer. I've got it on max, I've got brandy butter as well so it'd be a shame not to have it on a nice warm mince pie. I'm gonna wrap it in a Christmas hat. Oh how perfect is that? And then I'm gonna put it in my sleeping bag. I'm really excited to see if this is gonna work. I feel like a bird protecting an egg. I don't want to damage it but I want to keep it warm. Right, the moment of truth has arrived. I've had my mince pie on the hand warmer in my sleeping bag for about 45 minutes now I think. I've just been sitting here doing some sudoku in the meantime so if it's not warm now, well I don't know, hopefully it will be. It's fluffy. You know what? It feels warm. It's not hot but I'm pretty sure that that is a warm mince pie. Yeah, it's all right. It's kind of lukewarm. It's definitely nicer than it would have been if I hadn't warmed it but I think this might need about an hour and a half on a hand warmer to be properly warmed through. Well before I crack on with the rest of my lovely pie here for the magnificent light switch on. Cheers guys! Hey guys, it is six o'clock. It's still six degrees and I'm having a lovely time just flumping around in here, relaxing, listening to the rain and doing a few puzzles. I'm just waiting for some water to heat up for another nice hot drink and I'm gonna have my second Christmas wrap of the evening and yeah I'm gonna have an early night so I'll see you guys bright and early for a nice bacon wrap. I am snug as a bug in here. I've decided to leave my outdoor door open so that I don't get too much condensation on this single skin here and so I can see the rain in the morning when it gets light. Good morning. It's a lovely soggy morning in the woods. It's just starting to get light. There's been a lovely owl hooting. It's been so comfy in here. Loves having me wedge. Slept really good. So yeah, I think I'll wait for it to lighten up properly and then I'm gonna make a nice bacon bap before I get going. It's seven degrees this morning in the woods. I love massive lumps of butter anyway. Best way to get you all warmed up for the day. I think we're done here. Gotta have some nice English mustard in there. Bacon bap and a chocolate coffee. So that's about 20 hours in my tent in the rain but yeah this has been well cozy. I've not had a really rainy night in ages. I'm gonna get packed away soon I think. Big thank you to Ash Outdoors of Ash Outdoors UK who carried my stuff into the woods for me. Really appreciate that and thank you guys for being here hanging out with me in the woods. I hope you all have an amazing Christmas and a brilliant 2026. 2026 is gonna be better. I can feel it and I'll see you in the new year. Bye!