Yesterday morning while waiting for some homemade sausage rolls to cook I decided to play with a brew kit I put together and make a coffee.

For early February it was rather pleasant with the sun out, and barely a breeze.

The brew kit I had put together uses a Camping Moon pear shaped canvas mini bag (purchased off that AliExpress place) to hold everything. Well almost the mug (in this case a Kupilka 21 classic cup) is external.

Inside is a Trangia 27 aluminium kettle, which is 600ml capacity if I remember correctly.

Inside the kettle is the Trangia stove itself and a preheater attached to it. Plus some sachets of coffee, whitener, and sugar.

In the bottom of the case is stored a Trangia Triangle and an official pan stand plus a cross stand.

This is a nice relatively compact brew kit, granted the cup is external, and it needs a folding spork/spoon adding. Which will easily fit inside. Plus fuel not in the Trangia is also stored external. Which I prefer.

I used my ferro rod to ignite the Trangia. Typical it was at this moment that a slight breeze decided to make itself known. Although the meths ignited the breeze however slight was enough to blow out the flame.

After four attempts with the same result I was beginning to regret using the cross stand over the triangle. But fifth time the charm.

The breeze had disappeared.

Even though this wasn’t the peace and quiet of the middle of nowhere or a woods. It still had a restful affect. The change of pace. The break from routine. The waiting for the water to boil.

Sometimes you just need to slow down.