Dexter and I ventured off to Brixworth Country Park today. Find out more with our blog post here. The park was having a ‘bins and bugs’ day, promoting the use of compost bins to recycle waste, whilst providing information about mini beasts. Great I thought. This will make a fab blog entry, with lots of photos to… Read More It’s Really OK To Forget Your Phone
Brixworth Country Park is a firm favourite of ours for walks. It was the first park we visited when we relocated to Northamptonshire two years ago. I can recall telling Mark that it felt like ‘being on holiday here’. Although the park is only five miles from Northampton, once you start walking along the trails away… Read More Brixworth Country Park
With Nanny Wild One visiting us for a few days, we were keen to find a new local place to explore together. As luck would have it, one such place just over the border in Leicestershire, had just opened up to the public for its annual summer stint. Wistow Maze in the village of Wistow is… Read More Wistow Maze
We’re a young family, currently living in rural Northamptonshire. We love walking, camping, geocaching and getting out into the countryside. I’m Nicola and originally from Shropshire, where I began my love of the great outdoors. I worked in live television for nearly ten years before discovering my true passion, working with young children. I returned… Read More About Us
When the Barbeque has done its job and the last few embers of the fire are smouldering away, we love to cook our scrummy nachos. They’re very easy to create and make an awesome snack to have around the campfire in the evening. We often put the nachos together at the same time as the… Read More Scrummy Barbeque Nachos
The Peak District is one of our favourite places to visit in England. In fact we like it so much we’ve visited the area three times in the past four years. Each time we have tried a different campsite, as there are so many to choose from in the Derbyshire Dales. Our choice this trip… Read More Middlehills Farm Campsite, Peak District
An old school friend of mine recently contacted me, to ask for some advice about taking her two year old on their first family camping trip. She was feeling quite apprehensive and I quote ‘dreading it a bit’. Hopefully I managed to put her mind at ease and allowed her to look forward to the… Read More The Pleasures and Problems of Camping with Little Wild Ones
Now that summer is finally here, apart from the current showery blip, there’s no excuse not to play outside with your little wild ones. A quick scour of the Internet can provide a myriad of weird and wonderful activities to try outside, but when you’re squeezed for time and resources, look to what you have… Read More Outdoors Play Making The Ordinary Extraordinary
Anyone with, or anyone who’s had a child under five will be able to relate to the ‘reluctant walker’. Especially if like us, you remember with fondness the pre-child days, where you could don your walking boots, grab a map and get out and explore anywhere and everywhere. Once you have children, getting out for… Read More Encouraging the Reluctant Walker… With a Dinosaur Hunt
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