We should be outside, beyond the walls, where we can smell, feel, hear, and touch the real world. At least for a little bit of time each day. For me, the outdoors is for everything from hiking adventures, camping trips, big views, local walks, running errands, and the smallest connections with nature. Find out more about One Hour Outside.
How are you at relaxing? I’m kind of okay at it. I mean, I do relax, but I’m not very good choosing to relax. Which means that when I finish relaxing, I feel guilty about it because it happened by … 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
It’s fair to say that 2020 has been… interesting. None of us could have predicted it. Bloggers the world over are sat looking at blank “2020 in review” drafts wondering what the best thing to do is. Lament over a … Continued
Back at the very end of October, before we went into our last national lock down, I spent two days based in Bridgewater (I do love a Premier Inn, always reliable) for a very mini solo hiking adventure in the … 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
My Currently Loving feature has always been designed to give me an opportunity to share a few of my favourite things of the moment. It’s a very traditionally blogging kind of post to write for go-outside-and-do-the-thing focused blogger, but I … Continued
Another week, another weekly blog… 45 episodes in, and I’m still going on about going for weekend walks, eating all the food, and watching all the television. It seems that the pandemic has done strange things to my daily habits. … Continued
October has been a pretty good month of getting outside. Now we’ve sneaked into November (hope you’re taking part in my One Hour Outside challenge this month), I look back and realise just how much I’ve been able to explore … Continued
Last month I had the pleasure of heading just Over the Bridge to Wales once again, for a particularly outdoorsy hosted weekend in the Abergavenny area. I say outdoorsy, and it was, I hiked, paddled, explored, and wandered, it was … Continued