I would love N to help out more round the house. It doesn’t work for any length of time. I’ve tried rewards, chore lists, asking him, explaining that we all live there and need to muck in. But it doesn’t…
On our annual camping trip we’ve always been fairly lucky until this year. Usually we have 1 day that’s a bit drizzly, but the rest are reasonable. We have had to rush on the last day to beat the rain’s…
We’ve just come back from a camping trip in North Devon and it wasn’t the best weather. The forecast had been pretty shocking, and well we did have to two decent days, the rest were interspersed with rain and two…
Forget whale song or white noise. Did you know you can find camping sounds on Youtube? We love camping, but like anything where you’re sleeping elsewhere, there’s always sounds to get used to, good and bad. The noises of camping…
When we went camping as kids it was either with the guides where we had to make our own racks for storing bags of food on. Or it was just in the garden for which all we needed was bedding…
Camping should really be the opposite of the holidays we usually like to take. To me, a holiday is usually a chance to relax, have someone else look after you, and not have to cook or provide 3 meals a…
I love a mini break. We rarely go over weekends, it’s usually me taking N away for a few days mid-week in school holidays. But just a few days is enough to see a few places, have a bit of…
Living in the middle of a country it’s not often we get to the seaside, so whenever we go away I always try and make sure we book somewhere near enough to visit a beach at least once. A trip…
If we go on holiday for a few days break we always tend to stay in a hotel. If it’s just N on myself. For our Easter mini break I actually booked a couple of weeks in advance rather than…
I can understand why many parents don’t want to go camping. Especially if you never did it as a child (or maybe if you did and it was disastrous). But I think every child should have at least 1 camping…
One of the benefits of having 1 child is having more disposable income and being able to do what we want when we want. Rather than having to pick and choose what we can and can’t do. If we’d had…
