At first, camping on Brownsea Island seems dreamy and idyllic – your very own island, free of tourists for the evening, and more astonishingly, free of Scout camps! But then you realise there’s an infestation of hornets within the campsite and then thunder rumbles over and you realise you’re on an island a mile and… More Camping on Brownsea Island (again)
Iceland has been my mania for a long time. Kayaking has been bubbling up but has been my newest mania for a little while, but particularly right now, as I attempt to enact a plot I actually have no control over whatsoever. Anyway, the moment I discovered that this book existed, via Lee-Anne Fox on… More Travel Library: Iceland by Kayak by Nigel Foster
Apparently I’ve never dragged my native chocolate into this arena but it’s time at last for Cadbury’s to take on its various rivals! And the first one up is Finland. We’ve had Karl Fazer here before, along time ago. It was my very first chocolate war back in late 2014, when I put it up… More Chocolate Wars: British vs Finnish chocolate
A couple of weeks ago, my mum happened to spot a “peg loom weaving workshop” on Facebook, mentioned to me that it sounded like the sort of thing I might be interested in and I booked onto it, with very little idea of what I’d actually booked, only that it would be educational and interesting… More Weaving a fleece mat on a peg loom
I feel like an elegant, sophisticated lady. This is an unusual sensation for me, someone who was once described as sounding “…populaire” (Swiss French for “urchin”) next to my “Princess Diana” triplet. But there’s something about Monart Spa that feels expensive and graceful and perfect. I had a voucher to celebrate “more than five years”… More Monart Spa, Poundbury: a review
I was very excited about my tour of the RNLI College but three days later I went back for the boatbuilding tour of the All-weather Lifeboat Centre and that was even more exciting. The College is also home to the factory where the RNLI builds its new fleet of Shannon-class all-weather lifeboats and services, repairs… More RNLI 200: how the RNLI build a lifeboat
This year, the RNLI is celebrating its 200th birthday and one of the things they’re doing to mark the occasion is to hold a Lifeboat Festival in Poole, the RNLI’s headquarters. There’s a lot of fun stuff going on this coming weekend but you can actually do quite a lot of it in your own… More RNLI 200: Take a Discovery Tour of the RNLI College in Poole
Remember back in 2020 when we were only allowed outside once a day for one hour for vital exercise? Well, after a few circuits of the local rec, I decided in May 2020 that if I was going to go outside for a walk every day, I might as well make it worth while and… More I’ve walked 2km a day every day for 4 years
Well, it’s been a long time coming but the video series on my trip to Georgia earlier in the year has finally actually reached Georgia! This Tbilisi video isn’t the one I’d hoped to make but the new mics are really crackly so although I didn’t talk to the camera a lot, pretty much everything… More New video: First impressions of Tbilisi
A couple of years ago now, I bought myself a new tent. I’m very fond of my two-man tunnel tent with porch but I kind of fancied something a bit bigger and I found a 4-man on sale for £80. That’s a really good price! Sometimes you’d struggle to find a decent 2-man for that… More Tent review: Eurohike Sendero 4 vs Cairns 5 DLX