I enjoy featuring people here on Splodz Blogz who love to spend time outdoors through my GetOutside Interview series, in the hope that they may encourage you to spend a little bit more time outside more often. In today’s GetOutside … Continued
Being a GetOutside Champion over the last year has been a very different experience. But the Ordnance Survey campaign to encourage more people to spent more time outside more often has continued through the pandemic, and we’ve done our best … Continued
I like to keep my camp as I keep my house and my desk… clean, tidy and organised. When car camping that normally means that anything relating to sleeping goes in my large The North Face Basecamp duffel bag, and … Continued
My bookshelf is full of walking guides and adventure inspiration. Whether they be complications of walks based on geographical area, specific features such as walks up hills or by the coast, or particular long-distance trails, I find surrounding myself with … Continued
One of the things I am most looking forward to when lockdown starts to ease again, is to get back out on some decent length day hikes. As you know (from such posts as Seven Days of One Hour Outside … Continued
In this post a couple of years ago, I featured four hills to climb near Cheltenham. It has been one of my most popular hiking blogs to date, so I figured, why not do another?! We might not be in … Continued
England (and the rest of the UK) is back in National lock down. Announced by Boris Johnson at 8pm yesterday and effective immediately, we are now once again under a legal obligation to stay at home. I thought I would … Continued
I think it’s fair to say that during the course of 2020, many people have looked at the things they own, and realised that stuff is not what makes them happy. Maybe they’ve had a massive clear out, or they’ve … Continued
November is a notoriously cold, dark and damp month. The position of November in the Gregorian calendar means that those of us here in the UK get short days, dark mornings and evenings, often poor – wet and windy – … Continued
I think we can safely say that summer is done. It happened. It finished. It is gone. Autumn is here. The leaves are falling off the trees, the temperatures have dropped, and the days are short. I know lots of … Continued