We’ve had a glorious run of Spring weather over the past few days, so we decided to take advantage and visit the Yorkshire Game & Country Fair, being held just down the road from Sherburn at Scampston Hall. It’s quite…

Regular readers will know that we moved out of our Lancashire home in September 2022 and then spent 4 months in our Static Van in Shropshire, before finally getting the keys to our new house in January 2023. I’ve been…

A positive weather forecast gave us the impetus to head back to our Static in Shropshire for a week and the bonus of managing to fit in two new walks that took us through landscapes shaped by industry. Lyth Hill…

It’s just over two months since we’ve moved to Sherburn, a small village between Malton and Scarborough, and I thought I’d better post the first Blog entry of 2023, as the site approaches 800,000 visitors. Once we’re properly settled in…

As many of you will know, we’re between houses at the moment. Having sold ours on 12th September, we’re living in our Static Van in Shropshire, whilst legal issue are sorted in connection with our new home in Yorkshire. It’s…

We’d seen a Made in Shropshire market advertised at the National Trust property at Dudmanston, near Bridgnorth, so headed there for a mooch around the stalls and a walk down the Dingle. I haven’t seen a NT car park so…

We’ve been planning to visit Lake Vyrnwy since we’d bought the van a couple of years ago, but had never got round to it until today. It’s about an hour’s drive to the Visitor Centre, where we parked up, wrangled…

The good people of Bishops Castle had been planning their annual Michaelmas Fair for months, only to have the local council and committee pull the plug, due to ‘protocols’ around the period of mourning for the late Queen. Fortunately, they’re…

There’s some dispute about whether this was our 5th or 6th trip to The Anchorage Cottage in Staithes – whichever it is, it’s clear we love the place. We’re deep in house hunting mode at the moment, so a break…

We got back from Scotland on Sunday and used Bank Holiday Monday to take up the carpet on the stairs and landing, before the arrival of the decorator on Tuesday. Having sorted him out, we headed down to Bow House…

It’s been busy, busy, busy at home, as we try to get our house ready for sale, so a week away was just what we needed. We were finally going back to Gorteneorn Bothy in Ardnamurchan – a booking we’d…

It’s been a few weeks of birthdays for our grandchildren – we’ve seen Ruby for her 1st, Lily for her 10th (along with her sister, Brooklyn) and we’re just back from a fleeting visit to the Highlands for Isabella’s 7th.…

Amazingly, a year has gone by since the birth of our latest granddaughter, Ruby Rose, so we took the opportunity for a few days away to attend her first birthday party. It also gave Alison a chance to go wedding…

Hunkered Down in South Shropshire   The Pandemic continues, with the new Omicron variant spreading like wildfire and new restrictions in place, so we decided to have a quiet Xmas and New Year at our Static Van near Bishops Castle…

We’d missed out on our Birthday trip last weekend to meet up with Gabbie, Jay and Ruby, because they were suffering from a nasty bout of cold, so we hastily made plans to go down to our Static van at…

We love the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in the Western Highlands, so when I found a new cabin to rent near Sanna Bay I booked us a week in October. The dates coincided with Ralf’s second birthday and allowed us to move…

Welcome to a new style of Blog Having sold Absinthe earlier this year, we’d been wondering whether to bother with the Blog, but after loads of fantastic walks and trips to our Static van in beautiful South Shropshire, we decided…

Glawning Owners’ Meet 2021 Our second Glawning Owner’s meet was scheduled for June 2020, but had to be put back a year because of the Covid pandemic, so we’re just back from Ettie’s Field after another great weekend with a…