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Sleeping: from my experience a tent is not needed as long as you have a decent sized ground sheet and a good bivvy bag. Both you can get at an army surpass and will be green for wild chomping which will help. The ground sheet needs to be big enough to cover two people comfortably (even tough it's just for one). Important practice setting up your bivvy before you leave, there are loads of different ways for differnt scenarios, google it. You will need lots of bungies and long steel tent pegs (wide ones with flat sides) get extras, you'll loose them. Around 10-15.
This will be plenty warm enough with a good waterproof bivvy bag and a decent sleeping bag. Last but not least, strip down to just a tee and pants for sleeping. Seems counter intuitive but is warm. All wet kit gets shoved to the end of your bag by yoUr feet. It won't dry completely but better than leaving outside your bag or sleeping in it (don't be tempted). I have camped like to in temperatures down to minus 20 no probs (Norway).
Cooking: buy a jet boil if you can afford it. Small, easy to use and very fast. Buy boil in the bags. Cheap, easy to use, tidy and don't need cutlery much as you just squeeze it out the bag in to your grid. Porridge, pasta, mash. Easy. Also take tobasco, makes anything edible.
Washing: wet wipes and talc. That's it.
Water: petrol stations. If you collect your own from steams when you are up top make sure you boil it for 10-15 mins. Plenty of sheep get drowned in the autumn as the rain starts and you don't want to be lapping down their rotting carcass.
Clothes: a wet set for riding. A dry set for night time plus one spare. Few spare socks n pants. That's it.
Anything I've missed?