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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…
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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…
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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.
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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!
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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!
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Lockdown Bivvy
Where will I go? A question normally with a thousand answers. At the moment, because of the lockdown, there is only one….. A microadventure in the garden.
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Flat Space
I needed some. So I built some. One of the things that has impressed me since I started building Bernie in a camper colossus is how people can squeeze even the tiniest table into their vans. I wanted one too! And after the now standard hours spent researching all the usual places (YouTube/Instagram/vanlife websites) I…
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Camping on our Doorstep
A second three weeks of lockdown has just been announced. So back to the van for the next job, making a midge net for the window. I essentially copied this idea: https://www.motorhomeplanet.co.uk/archives/4795 It seems to have worked really well, but we’ll see how it performs next time I can get further than the front door.…
Challenge Kev Outdoors 