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
As I write this, I’m lying in the porch of my tent in the garden, having spent the morning making repairs and while I’m doing the Outdoors 101 and Camping for Beginners series, it seemed it would be a good idea to do a post on how to repair a tent. You’ve bought it, you’ve… More Camping for Beginners: How to repair a tent
I meant to do this last year but apparently I never did: a beginner’s guide to how to pitch a tent. It’s all very well to decide you’re going to try out this camping thing, to go to a shop and buy a tent, but how do you put the thing up? Tents come in… More Camping for Beginners: How to pitch a tent
Perhaps you’re here because you can’t fly off to your sunny summer holiday and you’re beginning to think people might be right about this camping thing, at least until the plague is well and truly gone. But you’ve never camped before; you don’t even know where to begin. Never fear, I’m here to help! Camping… More Camping for Beginners: how to buy a tent
I had so much fun planning my Sparkle & Ice 2021 At Home that I’ve decided everyone should do their own at-home camp weekend at least once during these dire times when we can’t go and camp for real. Take a weekend out of your real life, when you don’t have to worry about responsibilities… More How to plan your own camp at home
I’ve done Sparkle & Ice every year since it began. There was muddy 2017, volunteering 2018, icy 2019 and stormy 2020 and now we’ve got at-home 2021. Just because Sparkle & Ice 2021 isn’t happening doesn’t mean I’m going to miss it. Last year, Girlguiding did an online version of Wellies & Wristbands because that’s… More Sparkle & Ice 2021: the at-home version
As a veteran now of three “winter survival camps” with various Rangers and Guides, I’m going to share what I’ve learned. With travel off the table at the moment, maybe you’d like to try a brand new small adventure like camping in your own garden in winter. 1) Minimise time spent camping in winter At… More How to survive camping in winter
In 2017, I decided I could save some luggage space and maybe some money by, instead of hiring a car and taking a tent, hiring a campervan. I knew approximately what it was going to look like before I picked it up but people at home didn’t and my grandmother was adamant – told my… More Upgrading from a tent to a campervan
While I was writing about my camp at home over Easter, I wrote in a bit more detail about all my cooking and eating stuff – enough that I realised it should go in its own post. This is that post. This is my stove. It’s a really small basic screw-on gas stove with little… More Stay At Home Storytelling: My camp kitchen
I’ll be going back to my tales of the past soon enough but today we’re going right to the present, right to my life in isolation. There’s stuff going on around here, stuff I don’t want to talk about on the blog, but around the stuff, I’m not actually minding isolation too much. I’m working from… More Stay At Home Storytelling: Camping at Home