THERE'S something magical about getting back to the most basic of basics, and fol-de-reeing to the fells on a camping holiday.

It doesn’t matter that there will be probably be a dead yow in the stream you are drinking from, that the wildlife will include a million and one midgies and the main sounds will be the drumming of rain on the fly sheet - that‘s all part of the fun.

Find out more about Hextol's life under canvas in the Hexham Courant on Friday,