Part of the reason I went to Wimbleball was the SWE event Wet & Wild which I talked about in the last blog post but part of the reason was Rebel Badges. I’ve talked about this so many times that I’m not even going to link the previous posts except to say have a look … More Wet & wild at Wimbleball: doing my Rebel Camper badge
I’ll tell you about the camp and the overall experience next time but for now, let’s do the watersports activities at my weekend on Exmoor last weekend. Girlguiding SWE do an annual event there, where you get to try out six watersports plus you get a range of shore activities including climbing, archery and geocaching. … More Wet & Wild at Wimbleball: A Watersports Weekend
You may have noticed by now I’m a bit of a fan of the Rebel badges. Last week I talked about how I was apparently starting my Wild Swimmer badge, I’ve previously talked about Stargazer and Water Sports and Adventurer and I probably haven’t mentioned Community Service, Craft, Critic, My Brand, Linguist or Reader. Well, … More An overnight adventure in Purbeck
Last weekend, I had my first wild swim adventure and it was… well, mixed emotions. I’m opting for “wild swimming” rather than “open water swimming” or “cold water swimming”, by the way, mostly because the Rebel badge on the subject is called Wild Swimmer. It’s a badge I dithered over doing – it’s from the … More My first wild swim adventure!
If you’re going to swim in a delightful outdoors naturally heated geothermal pool in Iceland, you’re going to have to face the dreaded Obligatory Naked Shower. Icelandic pool water comes straight from the ground. They don’t put chlorine in it or any other chemical disinfectant. The way Icelandic pools remain clean is to demand that … More Public nudity post-pandemic | Iceland 2022
The horse’s name was Vorboðar, which means Bringer of Spring and he was not doing his job. Naively, I’d expected spring in Iceland to look quite a lot like summer – sunshine, leaves, people in lighter clothes – and what I’d seen of it so far had been winter but without the fun stuff like … More Horse riding in the rain | Iceland 2022
It’s been a sunny weekend so I’ve been out in the garden getting my plants in order. I’ve already talked about what I learned from my garden last year so now I’m starting to put that into practice. Indoors First, my little hot plants. I planted my tomatoes, chillis and peppers in my windowsill propagators … More Spring 2022 in my garden
My county came up with a May lockdown challenge badge in 2020 which kept me nice and busy. In 2021 they did another: the Jurassic Plod badge. Yes, May 2021. I only finished it last week, in April 2022. The “plod” in question doesn’t have to be along the Jurassic Coast but I immediately decided … More Jurassic Plod challenge badge
I didn’t exactly rave over my last Travel Library book, did I? And I’m afraid it’s pretty much more of the same today. This time I’m reading Helen Russell’s The Year of Living Danishly. Helen is a freelance writer and journalist whose husband unexpectedly got offered a job at Lego HQ. They took the plunge … More Travel Library: The Year of Living Danishly
As I start to write this post, I finished lesson eleven of my twelve-lesson Russian evening course last night and I have one more lot of homework and one more lesson left and then I’m done. I’m glad for two reasons. One is that this is hard – learning anything with a different alphabet is … More A review of my Russian evening course
I Am A Polar Bear 