2018

Man’s (and Woman’s) Best Friend When we lost Boris earlier this year, I started to write a Blog post about him but found it too difficult at the time. He’d sat with me for every Blog I’ve written, curled up…

Bed and Board Our last trip of the year in Absinthe was one of two parts. Firstly, we travelled to Stourbridge to meet up with Jamie Hubbard, who runs Creative Woodworking in a Unit at The Ruskin Glass Centre. We’d…

Callum Comes Calling…   There’s a brilliant village in Wharfedale called Appletreewick, there’s a brilliant campsite in Appletreewick called Masons and there are two brilliant pubs in Appletreewick called the The Craven Arms and The New Inn. It all sounds…

I love it when (not having) a plan comes together Any regular reader of my Blog will know that I love planning and that I get almost as much pleasure from arranging our trips as I do from enjoying them.…

Mr & Mrs B On Tour: Bitton, Bristol, Beer, Burford & Blenheim It’s time for Absinthe’s MOT and service which means a trip to Danbury in Yate. As we have done for several years now, we stayed overnight at Knights…

It’s Coming Home (or is it?) We didn’t originally have anything planned for this weekend, but the weather forecast was so good that it would have been foolish to stay at home. We’d visited The Cud Life a couple of years…

Our Top Three Purchases We’re often asked about the best thing we’ve bought or had installed in Absinthe and it’s quite difficult to narrow it down to one item, so here, in no particular order are our top 3, with…

A Little Piece of Heaven on Earth The recent good weather was too tempting not to take the Absinthe away somewhere, and where better, than a little piece of heaven on Earth in my favourite of the Yorkshire Dales, Swaledale?…

Mid-summer Murmurs When we bought Absinthe in 2011 we said that we’d wait until close to our intended travel date, look at the weather forecast, then decide where to go. Anyone who watched us on the Caravanner of the Year…

Weighing Things Up… Last week we’d been watching a programme on BBC called, ‘Flipping Profit’, where three different experts buy or upcycle items, then try to sell them at a profit. Each episode has an Upcycler, an Antiques dealer and…

Eskdale Dubfest 2018   This was our 5th Eskdale Dubfest (we missed the 2015 event because we both had flu and, guess what? Yep, the weather was glorious). We drove up on Thursday (a day before the official start) but,…

Let’s Park ‘er Here 25 years ago on 13th April 1993, I joined Walmsleys Insurance Brokers on the same day as my future business partner, Michael (Mick) Whittle. In 2004, we bought the business, rebranded it as WCIB and it’s…

Bath time The Brazilian T2c needs a service every 6 months and we’ve continued to have Absinthe’s done at Danbury in Yate, where we first bought her in August 2011. This may seem quite inconvenient, given that Yate in Somerset…

If it’s not Brock… Welcome to the first Blog of 2018. I had hoped to have one up earlier this month when we visited Tockholes Woods, but when we got there it was thick fog with added hail and sleet,…