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…

End of an Era It’s with a bit of heavy heart that I’ve got to announce that, after a long trip to VW Kampers in West Sussex, we’ve now sold Absinthe. We’ve had her for ten years and the time…

A Reminder of What We’ve Missed I’ve not exactly fallen out of love with Absinthe, but my passion for her has possibly waned since the pandemic hit and we’ve not been able to use her very much. Today was a…

Look What’s Been Bubbling Under… The first Blog of 2021 and I’m not even involved! Our youngest daughter, Gabrielle gave birth to a beautiful baby girl earlier this month but, because of lockdown, we’ve only been able to meet her…

The First Campsite of 2020 It’s amazing that our first campsite sleepover of 2020 didn’t happen until 18th and 19th August, but, when it finally happened, it was a great trip. Equally surprising was that the site; Wilcock’s Farm Campsite…

Free at last… Finally, we managed our first nights away in Absinthe, albeit not to a campsite, but to our daughter’s house, in the village of Roy Bridge in the Highlands of Scotland. We set off on Tuesday morning at…