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So You Want To Try Camping #2...A home from home. Zzzzz.
Well, Easter 2013 got a bit too chilly for most tent campers in this area but we're getting a bit warmer now, and we're just topping up the lake for a few days before we have our first heat wave. So, we've got the tent to suit our plans and now need to think about what we need to make it comforta...
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Oops! The Law Of Unintended Consequences
I was looking at the OS map for our area (OL5) and came across 'The Bungalow' in Martindale, near the southern end of Ullswater. You can stay there if you want, but it's not a modern dwelling, not by a long way. Families, eh, what are they like? You don't really get a choice, do you? At least you...
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So You Want To Try Camping? Read on ...
I love camping! There's something about sleeping in a field that works for me. Early memories of holidays without parents in north Wales, a farm by the sea and, my, how tents have improved since those days. In those days you actually did sleep under cotton canvas, no zips, no sewn in groundsheet...
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The Background Static Of Perpetual Discontent
Is this all there is? In my salad days I spent a year in Paris, working as a teacher of English by day, and eating, drinking and indulging in other other life shortening stuff by night. Every working day I walked past Notre Dame cathedral on my way to work and always smiled politely (hangover p...
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Tech Care, Lambs Ont Menu and the Second Law Of Thermodynamics.
Pretty soon it will be February half term then a hop, a skip and a jump will take us into the Easter holidays, the campsites will open, the BBC will wheel out the 'Blue Peter for grown-ups' presenters and we'll get 'Springwatch' with all those cute little birds, badgers and otters...again. We'll ...
