On Saturday morning, we’re taking twelve of our Brownies away for a sleepover – a mini-camp, indoors and just one night. On Monday, if I’m not too exhausted, I’ll tell you all about how it went but today let’s talk about how it was planned. First up was Tawny Owl, our licence holder, deciding it … More How to plan a Brownie sleepover
There are some camps that go down in legend, to be talked over ten or twenty years later. The one with the storm that knocked the Ranger tent over so that they were scared to go and alert the leaders and everyone ended up getting sent home for two days so we could clean up … More Back to Basics Guide camp was definitely type 2 fun
I recently joined a Facebook group dedicated to people travelling to Iceland, with some idea that I could be useful on there. Instead, I found upwards of 60 responses to every question before I even got there, most posted anonymously and with some disclaimed along the lines of “everyone is really snarky so if you … More Stupid questions you were afraid to ask the first time you went to Iceland (summer edition)
Because I tend to over-fill my evenings and weekends, I found myself craving a weekend away where, for once, I wasn’t actually doing anything. Just reading, sewing and spending as much time as possible in the hot tub. Glamping is inherently less stressful than pitching your own tent and it’s more relaxing than a hotel. … More Welcome to the Pheasant’s Retreat
“Grockle” is a word you’ll rarely hear outside England’s West Country. It means a tourist but in a derogatory way. Not the kind who prop up our economy, adore our scenery and appreciate our cider but the sort who clog up roads and car parks and leave their bottles on the beach. Tourists can be … More Don’t be a grockle: how to be a good tourist in the West Country
I’ve discovered that I’ve missed quite a few sets of film photos but I like them and I think they show a slightly different perspective on places and on travel, especially with the fact that you don’t get to find out whether they even worked until a good few weeks later. They’ll never replace the … More The Eras Train Tour on film
The main purpose of travel influencers isn’t to show off their fabulous holidays and adventures but to showcase destinations and experiences to people who might not otherwise know about them and share their own knowledge and experience to help people with their own travels. To that end, a group trip run -or at least figureheaded … More Is it worth going on your favourite influencer’s group trip?
The 5-9 is the bit of our lives that’s not our 9-5 job, what we do between 5pm when we finish work and 9am when we start again the next day. Despite the fact that I manage to maintain a travel and adventure blog with something new twice a week, I do have a 9-5 … More How I use my 5-9: May 2025 edition
I like to go camping. That is, I think I like to go camping. The reality is that for one reason or another – or several reasons – I never really actually sleep in a tent. But I like to get away from my life for the weekend without feeling like I need to explore, … More My latest camping disaster
It’s my blog’s tenth birthday this week. Ok, it’s a bit hard to pin down a firm date for when it started, since it went through at least two names & addresses (Limestone & Lava and Footprints in the Lava are the two I particularly remember) and probably half a dozen purposes before settling down … More Happy 10th birthday to I Am A Polar Bear!
I Am A Polar Bear 