The bucket list: A lengthy, specific list of wonderful, exciting and exotic things I’m intending to do before I die. One of the things on it is not ‘go camping in winter in Lanarkshire’. So why, then, was I to be found snuggling down under canvas in a field on the outskirts […]
Things I learned while canoeing the Great Glen
One minute it was all referendum fever, nearly riots and the dawning of a new era, the next I was paddling quietly and steadily away from Fort William. Like you do. Months ago, Debbie said: “Do you fancy this?” and sent me a link to something with pretty pictures of scenery. I glanced and words like […]
118/365 Tidiest scout in the camp!
My brother’s back Boy Two is returned from his scout camp, where he had a whale of a time. His little brother hasn’t left his side since he got back, despite the rather unappetising niff. Apparently he won a prize for being the tidiest scout in the camp. I’m very proud of him for this […]
116/365 Hoping it’s warm round the camp fire
Night is falling, it’s cold and the rain clouds are are rushing busily. About two miles away, Boy Two is hopefully happy in his scout camp. This is his first proper camp.There has been much preparation, including intriguingly the acquisition of a flint. I am delighted to report that, when I checked the boy’s stuff […]
112/354 Wishing I was a girl scout…
Spangles on the water at Drumpellier Park Look at that – teamwork making it happen for Boys One, Two and Three I took these pictures in Drumpellier Park yesterday. We were there just before the rain and just after a visit to Decathlon. We went to Decathlon – that palace of Lycra, mansion of […]