Last year I went to Wareham and hired a canoe. I knew from experience the year before that although rowing boats are so much more romantic, they’re a lot heavier and a lot more difficult to manoeuvre. So having discovered that canoes are easier, I went off to Wareham on the first niceish day of… More How to do an (accidental) handbrake turn in a canoe
I don’t talk about TV too often on here, with the notable exception of Zac Efron in Iceland, but Ragnarok is Norwegian, about Norse mythology and on Netflix, so why not. Ragnarok season 2 was released last Thursday, I watched it hungrily, if a little warily after some of the teasers, and I want to… More TV review: Ragnarok season 2
Since I’ve gone back to swimming recently, and since I made some comments about Iceland the Obligatory Naked Shower (although it’s possible they were in the first version that I deleted and rewrote), I thought I’d write a whole post about Iceland and swimming. Most western countries are pretty big drinkers and Iceland is no… More Iceland and swimming
Well, there’s nothing like Lyme Regis on a stormy day in what should be late spring/early summer. I like Lyme Regis. It’s my first port of call if I decide to go fossil hunting and I’ll look for fossils even if I only went there for the fun of it. The two go together like… More Lyme Regis on a stormy day
When I blithely added the title “what’s going on in the garden this spring?” to my content calendar back along, I was envisioning a nice sunny spring where I spent entire weekends outside, lying on a blanket, with a book next to me and a notebook I hadn’t actually touched. I envisioned coaxing vegetables into… More What’s going on in the garden this spring?
My experience is that most people do a “life update!” as an explanation for a long absence but I haven’t been anywhere. I’m not going anywhere either. But things are changing behind the scenes and I thought I’d do a post about them. So, you may have noticed we’ve been living through a plague. I… More A life and blog update
It’s been years since I’ve been to Monkey World and so naturally, the moment it closed down for the plague was the moment I really wanted to go again and at last I have. First things first. Yes, Monkey World is a tourist attraction. No, it’s not a zoo. It’s not a safari park, a… More Dorset Staycation: Monkey World
I was excited about this. I checked my emails multiple times a day in the hopes of hearing something about this and here it is! Anna McNuff‘s new book, Bedtime Adventure Stories For Grown Ups is out mid May and I’ve already read it! Full disclosure, I signed up to Anna’s Trail Team mailing list… More Bedtime Adventure Stories For Grown Ups by Anna McNuff
I love swimming. I love swimming for fun and I love swimming for exercise because the boundary between “it’s good for you!” and “it’s fun!” is so fine. At the moment, I’m not willing to go to one of my local indoor pools because plague but my favourite outdoor pool has just opened and I’ve… More Swimming for exercise and my 2021 swimming goals
I’ve covered everything I know about tents and now it’s time to think about what you’re going to eat. Welcome to Camp Cooking for Beginners! What should I cook on? You’re spoiled for choice on that these days. Let me give you a rundown of your main options. Others exist but these four are the… More Camping for Beginners: Camp cooking