We start this blog with a day spent totally at the campsite. We did leave the campervan to walk across to the shower block and to collect some more freshwater, but we never walked outside the gates. We spent the day playing scrabble, preparing emails, reading and watching two episodes of Downton Abbey. All day […]
On Wednesday 19th of September we woke early, showered, filled our bellies with food, filled our backpacks with more food and set off across the fields outside Coniston village. We crossed to the woods on the other side of the A593 and picked our way along the exceedingly muddy footpath to the common above. Avoiding
Yes, we are finally on our way ‘up north’, excited to be back on our campervan travels. Our first stop was Peterborough, for lunch with stepmother Val and then an overnight stop at a campsite at Newark. The next morning, the thirteenth, didn’t start too well. The grey water tap lever snapped off as Rodney was shutting
After criticism of the lack of news from some folk out there, I have been persuaded to get blogging again. This page will be a summary of what has happened over the last eight weeks, since we got back from France. There is drama, excitement, generous friends, weight gain and late nights. Eileen has had her
I’ve been a very lucky pig, I went to the 2012 London Olympics! The beach volleyball was great fun and I could see Nelson’s Column from my seat in the stadium. The sand looked nice, but it did make me miss the beaches in Sydney. I couldn’t find any sea nearby…… I