So young. So bitter 
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 Lift up the top end of your roll mat, lay gortex outer shell on GS lay roll mat on top of clothes. You now have a natural rise, then lay a "trek mates" pillow out an stuff your down jaket in it..... Place rucksack under the roll mat at the bottom end, this acts as a natural buffer to stop you sliding down the tent in the middle of the night.
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 Thermarest Stuff Sack Pillow - (large size) fits my sleeping bag in by day and clothing etc by night! 
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Fox's sleeping method: take a cotton pillowcase and put your spare clothes in it! Long underwear (vest & trousers) and keep (thin) socks on. A mini hot water bottle chucked into the sleeping bag is nice! For hips, I have read that one can dig a small pit where your hip will be, but I don't need that and who carries a trowel anyway? Trick for the morning is to pull today's clothes into the sleeping bag for half an hour to pre-warm them before you have to put them on (assuming it's a cold morning). A wee dram of single malt whisky is also a nice touch - before bed and on waking up
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  Didn't everyone do that at home in winter in the days before we had central heating? I know I did!!
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 This shows how to make a c.3 ounce pillow. Video lasts 10 mins.
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 Trick for the morning is to pull today's clothes into the sleeping bag for half an hour to pre-warm them before you have to put them on (assuming it's a cold morning). Excellent idea, Fox. Kate, I assume that your "Didn't everyone do that at home in winter in the days before we had central heating?" relates to this rather than to the consumption of whiskey...?
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 Ajungilak blow-up soft fluffy yellowy thing. Yum!!
MK - where did you buy that??
ta Andrew
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 I'm wriggler/twister and find that no matter how good the pillow I keep waking up with it fallen off the sleeping mat (a pro-lite in my case). Until I now! Take one pair of baggy boxer shorts (clean), slip them over the head end of the mat with the bum side facing uppermost. Pop your pillow between the mat and the short and Voila! you have a soft, stay put, squidgy bottom upon which to rest your weary head. Obviously mat size and pillow size/loft will influence your choice of boxer short, but Im sure there are plenty of other things lying round the house that would work just as well (although I doubt that the end result looks as amusing).
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.jpg) We use synthetic pillows ....Sue tends to choke on the down 
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From The Climbers' Shop in Ambleside, Andrew. Ooh, just look at its soft, fluffy yellowness!!
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 Spare clothing. I sleep on thin pillows at home so don't really notice the difference.
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I use a boxed wine. 1. Drink the wine first (best if not alone). 2. Rip the box apart and pull out the silver bag the wine was in. 3. Blow up the bag to the desired comfort level. (Blow throught the tap if you hadn't guessed) If you place the bag inside a fleece it doesn't rustle as much. Anyway who cares - after drinking that much wine I sleep like a log.
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I'm very doubtful of the wisdom of a frog drinking an entire box of wine. You'll get pissed as a newt.
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 I always try to take a wee dram before I wake up, it makes it easier to face the world which I find difficult being from a broken home. You see, I never knew my mother, she left home before I was born. As for a pillow, what's one of those? Is it that bag of pebbles that I lay my head on at night and which my lovely old dad used to tie to my waistband when I went swimming in the Usk when I was a lad? He said it was a safety measure. I don't get it. 
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.jpg) I thought wine came in bottles Whisky tastes good in the morning. (Disclaimer - Whisky only tastes good in the morning when wildcamping - NOT before driving to work on a monday)!
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Thanks MKate - I will get a 'fluffy yellow' Ajungilakky thing which now means the inside of my Akto is all aglow - the tent inner is yellow, my ME Snowline is yellow, my clothes stuffsack is yellow.........I dont think I will need a torch! Andrew
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 'Heck Office manager! I hope you have a high tent for that combination!' Smeg, it's a small rucksack! (Deuter ACT lite 40+10)
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