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
I used to be more active than I’ve been in recent years. I have (had?) a friend who occasionally introduces me as “a keen hillwalker”, which I don’t think was accurate even in my most regular walking days. But I’d realised how inactive I’d become and so in 2019 I signed up to twelve monthly… More My exercise routine: 500km in 2020 challenge
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
The other day I told you about my first trip to the Altitude Festival in 2010 and now we’re fast-forwarding to my last. The year is 2013, I’m back at Altitude Festival, back at my snowboarding lessons because I’m still not capable of going out on the mountains by myself and I happen to have… More Stay At Home Storytelling: My highest ever paraglide
A few weeks ago, I did a post on my DofE practice expedition and this is the real thing. The expedition is both the most dreaded and the best known of all the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award components. As a general rule, I think it’s the last thing to get done. The typical vision of… More Stay At Home Storytelling: My DofE Bronze expedition
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
Every year I swear that this will be the year I do something adventurous and new at least once a month. Well, that’s not happening this year. It’s April 27th when this post is published but it’s March 29th when I’m writing it. Are we still in lockdown? Probably. However, last year I did make… More Stay At Home Storytelling: A Segway forest adventure
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
So. Everything I’ve posted since coronavirus took over the world was written and scheduled around Christmas and the first half of January. Now we settle properly into the oddities of maintaining a travel blog when no one can travel. So what I’m going to do is metaphorically invite you to join me around the campfire… More Stay At Home Storytelling: a Keycamp kid