Sep 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
At the beginning of September, we stayed in a great cottage called Hardheads Cottage which was on the edge of the town of Egremont on the west coast of Cumbria. It was handy for me working up there and also had excellent access for some lovely walks on the Western...
Aug 6, 2025 | Personal, Travel, Uncategorized
Last Friday night we had dinner with Laura, Mike, Nicola and Nigel. Laura and her daughter Emmy made the big move from London to the Northwest to move in with Mike and his children so we saw their new place in Longton (near Preston) and had a good laugh and catch up...
Jul 29, 2025 | Personal, Travel, Uncategorized
Our second camping trip of the month and this time to Shropshire… It was a carefully selected location because we met Brent there and we wanted somewhere in between London and Birkenhead. Much Wenlock was where we ended up – it was a little closer to us...
Jul 4, 2025 | Personal, Travel, Uncategorized
Our first of two camping trips planned for July was to Abersoch in North Wales. Our friends Nicola and Nigel have a static caravan there so we found a site nearby – Trem y Mor Campsite – and booked for a long weekend. We headed across on Thursday with a...
Dec 14, 2019 | Personal, Travel, Uncategorized
A dog friendly winter weekend away in Keswick, Cumbria For the second year running we stayed in this little gem of a place called Bag End in Keswick as a little get away on the first weekend in December. We both took Friday and Monday off to go for some walks and to...
Oct 22, 2019 | Personal, Travel, Uncategorized
Dog friendly camping trip to Keswick in the Northern Lake District So this was actually our anniversary weekend away…. I know our anniversary is in March but we’d had to reschedule this trip to Keswick twice. Once was the fault of the flooded campsite...
