I'm a keen camper, and I like to camp in comfort. When I was setting myself up about ten years ago, I was looking for ways to save money, but still have everything I wanted.

My back doesn't like bending a lot to do things like washing-up at ground level, but an elevated basin seemed ridiculously expensive to me. On the other hand, stove stands were half the price. I already had a rectangular plastic basin and a tray, so I bought a draining rack and put it on the tray, next to the basin and they all fitted perfectly on the extra stove stand (I tried them out in the store)- they were even the same colour blue by a happy coincidence, and looked like they matched.

Now comes the real innovation. I needed something to hold the detergent, sponge, scourer etc, and I found in the store a "caddy" that is supposed to screw onto the inside of a cupboard door. I only had to scoop out a little bit of the plastic attachment at the back on each end, and it hooked over the end of the stove stand, next to the basin.

Now ten years later, I am still using this set up, and it works really well. I sometimes get favourable comments from people who see it, too. A lot of it was just luck that everything fitted, but I am kinda proud of the little hook-on caddy on the end.

Jenny