In reply to Tricky Dicky:
I had a worse pit in the 80s, a Blacks Highland! Looked fantastic, black with a gold stripe & lettering but totally useless.
I was seduced into buying it by the advert showing Hamish MacInnes in one in a snow hole; I should have realised that he'd have happily slept in a snow hole wrapped in an old newspaper (and probably been warmer too!)