Picnic Blankets Versus Picnic Tables
Does your family like to go picnicking? If so, are you advocates of picnic blankets or picnic tables? Regular picnic goers have their favourites, you know! Some picnickers are hard and fast picnic blanket people while others like to sit at a picnic table. In this piece we will take a look at the pros and cons of picnic blankets and picnic tables.
The first thought is where are you going to hold this picnic? Is it going to be in your garden, in the country or on the beach? Picnic tables and their seats do not settle very well in sand, so unless you can nail your table and chairs to a set of old skis, you will probably find it easier to use blankets on the beach. In this case, use something that the sand sticks to like wool, because it cuts down on the sand drifting into the sandwiches.
The next consideration is, what was the weather like the day before? That is, is the grass likely to be damp or even muddy? If it is likely to be wet, then you will not want to be sitting on wet blankets and wet grass, although you could lay a waterproof sheet like a tarpaulin under the blanket. However, if it is likely to be muddy, I would be in favour of postponing the picnic until a drier time.
The next consideration is the fitness of the crowd you are going to be picnicking with. Are they physically capable of sitting on the ground and getting back up again? Numerous elderly people are not, neither are the overweight or people with bad backs or bad knees. If you want to take blankets anyway, you will have to provide seats for these people and they can eat off their knees.
Another consideration is the amount of guests that have been invited. Picnic tables usually seat four or six; six or eight at a shove, so if you are expecting twenty people, that is quite a few tables and chairs. Not many households can run to four or five picnic tables and twenty seats, but you could consider having the adults seated at tables and the children on blankets.
If you just can not get hold of the required number of tables and seats, maybe some of your guests could bring their own to supplement what you already have. Most people are fairly willing to chip in if they have anything you can use.
Whether you choose picnic blankets or picnic chairs depends on several factors including your own personal preference, but it is almost certainly true to generalize that a younger group of picnicker will probably prefer a traditional picnic on a blanket, while an older group will prefer sitting at picnic tables.
Therefore, in a mixed group of young and old, you should provide both picnic blankets and picnic tables roughly in proportion to the number of your guests who are older or younger, say more than and under forty years of age.
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The first thought is where are you going to hold this picnic? Is it going to be in your garden, in the country or on the beach? Picnic tables and their seats do not settle very well in sand, so unless you can nail your table and chairs to a set of old skis, you will probably find it easier to use blankets on the beach. In this case, use something that the sand sticks to like wool, because it cuts down on the sand drifting into the sandwiches.
The next consideration is, what was the weather like the day before? That is, is the grass likely to be damp or even muddy? If it is likely to be wet, then you will not want to be sitting on wet blankets and wet grass, although you could lay a waterproof sheet like a tarpaulin under the blanket. However, if it is likely to be muddy, I would be in favour of postponing the picnic until a drier time.
The next consideration is the fitness of the crowd you are going to be picnicking with. Are they physically capable of sitting on the ground and getting back up again? Numerous elderly people are not, neither are the overweight or people with bad backs or bad knees. If you want to take blankets anyway, you will have to provide seats for these people and they can eat off their knees.
Another consideration is the amount of guests that have been invited. Picnic tables usually seat four or six; six or eight at a shove, so if you are expecting twenty people, that is quite a few tables and chairs. Not many households can run to four or five picnic tables and twenty seats, but you could consider having the adults seated at tables and the children on blankets.
If you just can not get hold of the required number of tables and seats, maybe some of your guests could bring their own to supplement what you already have. Most people are fairly willing to chip in if they have anything you can use.
Whether you choose picnic blankets or picnic chairs depends on several factors including your own personal preference, but it is almost certainly true to generalize that a younger group of picnicker will probably prefer a traditional picnic on a blanket, while an older group will prefer sitting at picnic tables.
Therefore, in a mixed group of young and old, you should provide both picnic blankets and picnic tables roughly in proportion to the number of your guests who are older or younger, say more than and under forty years of age.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Owen_Jones
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