Well, this is an odd day. Two posts in one day. The every-other-day Twelve Days of Christmas has collided with the Tuesday video. Yep, it’s new video day and today is a tour of my shepherd’s hut-slash-tin tabernacle, St Agnes in Cornwall. The blog version is coming on Thursday if you’d rather see the non-moving … More New video: St Agnes tin tabernacle shepherd’s hut tour
My absolute favourite life and outdoors manual is my 1992 Guide Handbook. Not even joking. There’s a lot that’s Guide-specific but it’s got entire chapters on Skills for Living, The Great Outdoors, Camp, All About You, Express Yourself and One World and I still like to sit and read it as a book, even now … More Travel Library: Do Your Best: How To Be A Scout by Bear Grylls
I love a packing post, I really do. Almost as much as I hate actually packing. I planned to do a bit of a photoshoot on my glamping trip to show what I packed but it rained most of the weekend and frankly, I didn’t have the time to put on all the things I … More My winter glamping packing list
I love Sparkle & Ice. I haven’t missed a single year, not even 2021, when it was cancelled because of some killer mutant virus. I took a mix of Guides & Rangers in 2017, just Rangers in 2019 and 2020, volunteered in 2018 and 2022 and I’m taking my new Rangers this year. However, this … More Sparkle & Ice 2023: the biggest one
Last year, one of my favourite YouTubers, Beau Miles, did a series called “Twelve Days of Christmas Newness” which started before Christmas but didn’t finish until early April. I liked the idea. In fact, after the pain that was Blogmas last year, I borrowed the idea, in that I’d do a Christmas/winter series called Twelve … More Twelve Weeks of Newness
It’s Tuesday and it’s another video and this is neither Iceland nor a travel vlog of any kind – this is me, in my Guide uniform, standing in my office, talking about my Girlguiding journey. As I explain right at the start, I’ve been watching Brogan Tate’s video on the same subject since last March, … More Video: My Girlguiding journey
I’ve said several times recently that the end of the alphabet is difficult so, yes, we’re arriving at “y not?”. Y not indeed, as the waiter howled at my granny’s favourite restaurant. And I’m going to illustrate “y not?” with pictures of me living my best life having adventures! Why travel solo? Why not? You … More The A-Z of Solo Female Travel: Y is for Y Not?
It’s December again! Last year I fried my brain doing Blogmas and swore I’d never do it again. Now it’s January 17th and I’ve decided to do Twelve Days of Christmas. Yes, you read that correctly. It’s January 17th. I’ve decided I’m going to get on top of this whole thing really early! So this … More How to make a Norwegian troll for your Christmas tree
Welcome to something of a sneak peek at a new series for 2024, in which I look at everywhere I’ve been and fill in the gaps, the places and experiences I just haven’t written about for various reasons. There are at least five stories missing from Helsinki back in May so those are definitely coming … More Nauthólsvík: Iceland’s warm geothermal beach
Just like the Accidental Ring Road Summer 2023 and Quest for the New Volcano Summer 2022 vlogs, I intended for my week in Iceland in February nine months ago to be a series of daily videos but first of all, it turns out I didn’t film enough on pretty much any day. Monday Friday and … More Video: Iceland in February | Iceland winter vlog 🇮🇸
I Am A Polar Bear 