Out Under the Stars: Our Sleepover Season The Family Adventure Project is having a sleepover. In fact, we’re having loads of them. In different locations. With our kids. Because everyone knows that kids love sleepovers. But they also love their bedrooms. And we don’t want our kids to stay in their bedrooms. So, with the [...]
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Lake District Tobogganing in Bivvi Bag Style
Lake District Tobogganing in Bivvi Bag Style Unable to get away during Easter, and tired of the kids niggling each other at home, we take off into the hills around Haweswater in the Eastern Lake District. We plan nothing more than a short hike to a tarn. But then we stumble across some snow, build [...]
Talking Point 14: Where do you start an adventure?
Talking Point 14: Where do you start an adventure? The front door slams shut and the house is still. School’s back, Kirstie’s gone out and I have the place to myself. Outside I hear the now familiar chug of the 555, idling at the bus stop in the Square. I can just see it through [...]
What? No Car? A Lake District Family Walking Tour
What? No Car? A Lake District Family Walking Tour Is it possible to explore the English Lake District without a car? Go Lakes Travel says it is, and it’s encouraging visitors to ‘drive less, see more’ by bus, bike, boat and boot. But the land that inspired world famous poets, artists and climbers is a rather [...]
Talking Point 13: Are you a muddy boots person?
Are you a muddy boots kind of person? What do you do when the weather gets grim? Consistently grim. And the forecast too. You know when the weather is not so bad you can’t go out at all, but it’s bad enough to make you feel like you don’t really want to. Not today, nor [...]
Can comic heros save us from death by detergent?
How do you save an iconic lake from death by detergent? It’s a job for superheroes and needs community involvement, kids included. But how do you engage kids in serious environmental stuff like this? At Windermere Reflections they’ve recruited a time travelling girl with a teddy bear, a starlit umbrella, a smartphone app and local [...]
An education in the countryside
Westmorland County Show 2012 It’s a world I know so well yet don’t know at all. A world on my doorstep that might as well be Mars. A world I have free access to that’s also something of a private members club. A world that one day a year is open to all at the [...]
Working Party! Volunteers head out to fix the fells
Working Party! Volunteers head out to fix the fells When you are out walking do you ever wonder who made your footpath? Or do you imagine it has been there since the beginning of time? We checked out a National Trust conservation project in the Lake District that aims to ‘Fix The Fells‘ after people [...]
Lake District passion, percussion and pyrotechnics
London 2012 Festival in Windermere The World Premiere of the North’s contribution to the London 2012 Festival, ‘On The Night Shift’, was billed as a fusion of fire, motion and rhythm. But if you hold an outdoor event in the English Lakes, you can expect water to play a part too. And while the rain [...]
Has the Olympic Torch lost its way?
Has the Olympic Torch lost its way? Tonight the Olympic flame floated across Windermere. It was a historic moment that brought a lump to my throat, and the moment found me and the kids dashing away from Katy B on the stage, to see the real star of the Olympic Torch Relay. The Modern Olympic [...]
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