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Fun and Simple Ways to Pamper Yourself

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  We all deserve to be pampered occasionally; every now and then we need some time to ourselves so we can recharge our batteries and start to feel like ourselves again. If you’re feeling a bit burned out after the stresses and excesses of Christmas and New Year, then it’s time to start looking for […]

The life-changing power of a good flask

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One year my dad gave me a lovely shiny Thermos for Christmas. It wasn’t very big and it was my first grown-up vacuum flash. It re-launched an interest in hillwalking as, inspired by visions of hot ‘proper’ Feliz Coffee to warm a Munro top, I joined a hillwalking group. Obviously, a hot beverage on a […]

Another first that wasn’t on the list

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This post comes to you from the SSE Hydro where I was waiting for an Imagine Dragons’ gig to start – and then finish. It’s another first – parent of a concert-goer too young to go on their own. There are many firsts – words, steps, booze cupboard breeches – you anticipate. But others, like […]

Family adventures: ghyll scrambling in Cumbria

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It would be fair to say that, as a family, we are something of a mixed bag. We comprise the bold, the well-balanced, the dumpy, the wobbly, the gung-ho, the cautious, exercisers and those who tend to the horizontal. And there’s only five of us. Add that to the fact that Boy Three is six […]