You should go camping, Rachel - it's moved on from leaky tents and no electricity.

For two months, I lived in the motley village of leaky tents that New Mexico State University called a field camp.

I said, "It's hell what a man will do to avoid having to sleep in a leaky tent in the rain, isn't it?"

This is particularly true when I have to spend more than a night or two in soggy blankets in a leaky tent.

I live out there on Bloody Island, a leaky tent among the ruins.

IF your idea of a camping holiday is a leaky tent, eating cold baked beans and sleeping on a lilo with a slow puncture, forget it.

The bureaucracy greatly frustrates the relief effort, requiring that permission be obtained to replace a leaky tent or even build a latrine.

We sleepin' in leaky tents de res' a dat winter, we did, till de new house done got build.

Not wanting to think or remember other times he'd spent in a leaky tent.

"Why then do you have a leaky tent?"