Nervous breakdowns be gone! Anyone got a jumbuck?

Following the diverse, but as usual good, advice from you guys last night I took the plunge and bought a swag (it was John with his veiled hint of the erotic aspects of a swag which really pushed me - now all I need is the female, hmmmm.... :)

Anyway I bought one of these:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=36120&item=5217559775
but from these people who currently have them on special for $200
http://www.grangerscampingworld.com.au/

Looks good as far as I can tell. Lots of stitching in the places it should be. Big butch zips everywhere. Lots of steel loops and bits of velcro the purpose of which I can only speculate! :) 70mm mattress which seems OK at the moment but if it flattens I'll replace it with my 100mm self inflating one.

So far I have only tried it in my upstairs lounge which is not the most arduous of environments although the carpet could do with a clean and I opened a window to give it that "rugged" feel :) No feelings of claustrophobia but there wasn't much air movement and it was rather stuffy when the canvas was zipped up (improved when I opened the head “window”) - fair enough really: in an ambient of 20 deg. C I would only have the screen zipped up. Might be an issue on warm nights when it rains though?

I'll soak it in over the next few days then take it up to the High Country in a couple of weeks to give it a real test.

Thanks a lot everyone for your advice - both the "fors" and "againsts" it's listening to the balance which is so valuable.

Mike Harding

mike_harding@fastmail.fm