Hips, trips, training and getting kids outside!
I’ve been wanting to explore the Peak District for ages, looking at the pictures on social media and reading about the different walks in the area, it sounds like a great place to go. My virus has been hanging around and after being a sofa sloth for a few days I needed to get some…
As the mornings seem dark and the nights are drawing in I was a little disappointed that ‘Summer’ was over. More because I seemed to have waited the whole of the summer holidays for those barmy summer days to start! But, with a slight chill in the air I’ve remembered all the wonderful things about…
We recently won a pair of tickets to CountryFile Live on twitter from Ordnance Survey, so we bought the kids tickets too and made it into a long weekend. To turn it into a bit of an adventure we spent the weekend staying near Oxford and then intended to find a mystery place on…
Affiliate post Here’s my review of the new Lucy Locket loves leggings and tank top. Being able to go to the gym has opened a whole new world of wardrobe choices and active wear for me. I do find however that there is a lack of active wear that makes me want to put…
Eek my kids break up from school tomorrow and as I write this I have yet to come up with a six-week activity programme! With them being off school my midweek walking is going to have to go on hold. If you’re a regular reader you’ll know I’m doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge, and…
This is the last part in my China trek series as I took part in a charity trek along the Great Wall of China to raise money for The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. Last time I conquered the Heavenly Ladder and was feeling good at all I had achieved. Today would be the last day of…
This is next part of my China trek series where I took part in a charity trek on the Great Wall of China. You can see what happened yesterday and how I walked more watchtowers than anticipated in this post; Jinshanling, a day of Watchtowers and emotions. Day 6 of my China trek, yesterday had…
This is part of my China trek series and today on day 5 the trek starts from Jinshanling. We had walked to our accommodation yesterday after a challenging day covering 27 watch towers across remote sections of the wall. The trek today would take us to remote original sections of the wall, mostly in good…
This is the third part of my China trek series as I trek parts of the Great Wall of China for charity. I felt good after yesterday’s trek and ready for what would be one of the longest and toughest days. We’d spent the night in home-stay accommodation and our rooms were off the courtyard dining…
This is the second instalment from my recent China trek adventures where I took part in a 5-day charity trek on the Great Wall of China. Today our trek would start properly and I was excited, but after the shock of yesterday’s walk also worried that maybe it would be too hard for me to…