Challenge Kev Outdoors

Do you take your swimming goggles for a walk?

This is a question you won’t often ask yourself. Although stranger things do happen I suppose. My mum used to take her cats for a walk (yes, all 4 of them) and it was always a thought that made me smile, the somehow odd idea that felines needed a lead to leave their home. One…

24/08/2020

Kevin Johnston

Coronavirus, Film making, Kev’s Hill Walking Challenges, Microadventures, Outdoor Swimming, Photos, Writing and Musings

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Grid Square Journeys no. 3 – NN 7941 (Meall a’ Choire Chreagaich and a Swim!)

For the third of my Grid Square Journeys, I needed to do some tweaking. I’ve used the same number of steps since I was first taught to navigate properly by Rich. But either old age or maybe too many injuries has meant my stride has started to change. The last two squares has seen me…

07/08/2020

Kevin Johnston

Coronavirus, Grid Square Journeys, Kev’s Hill Walking Challenges, Old Buildings, Outdoor Swimming, Writing and Musings

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Every Knight Needs a Steed

Another in the series of things we’ve built to improve our garden (now called the race track), entertain Young Johnston and get us through lockdown! A go kart!

02/08/2020

Kevin Johnston

Coronavirus, Fatherhood, Uncategorized, What Can I Build?

building, challenge kev outdoors, go kart, hungry media, lockdown, wood
Wet Walking

When it’s 25oC, where’s should you walk?… Sauntered from Prestonpans to North Berwick along the John Muir Way and Costa del East Lothian today with Adventure Man. The last 4km was competed walking barefoot in the sea. Now that doesn’t happen in the hills.

01/08/2020

Kevin Johnston

Coronavirus, John Muir Way, Kev’s Hill Walking Challenges, Photos

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Who Needs a Beach?

Another in the series of things we’ve built to improve our garden, entertain Young Johnston and get us through lockdown! A sand pit!

30/07/2020

Kevin Johnston

Coronavirus, What Can I Build?, Wood Carving

building, challenge kev outdoors, hungry media, pallets, sand pit, scotland, wood
Have Boat. No Paddle. Make Paddle. Have Paddle!

Another in the series of things we’ve built to improve our garden (ok, not so much the garden…), entertain Young Johnston and get us through lockdown! A paddle for a canoe!

21/07/2020

Kevin Johnston

Canoeing, Coronavirus, What Can I Build?, Wood Carving

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Grid Square Journeys no. 2 – NO 1314 (Balmanno Hill)

Fort William has Ben Nevis. Pitlochry has Ben Vrackie. Auchterarder has Craig Rossie. Even the smallest of village usually has a local hill, even if it’s pimple sized, which stands guard over the population. Bridge of Earn has a few. Which is handy as we are still unable to travel for leisure much beyond 5…

21/06/2020

Kevin Johnston

Coronavirus, Grid Square Journeys, Kev’s Hill Walking Challenges, Microadventures, Writing and Musings

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Cooking in the Garden

Another in the series of things we’ve built to improve our garden, entertain Young Johnston and get us through lockdown! A mud kitchen.

17/06/2020

Kevin Johnston

Coronavirus, Fatherhood, What Can I Build?, Wood Carving

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