A Reminder of What We’ve Missed
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…
Springing up to High Dam
Springing up to High Dam I’ve had a bit of the blues lately, nothing too serious, just a general malaise exacerbated by poor weather and the lockdown, so, with sunshine…
Look What’s Been Bubbling Under…
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,…
The First Campsite of 2020
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…
Free at last…
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…
Day Trip to Baddesley Clinton
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve not been able to see all of our children, so we’re trying to make up for their absence by having some time…
Hugs in Rawtenstall
Hugs in Rawtenstall Apart from a short trip by our neighbour to get an up to date MOT, Absinthe hasn’t left our drive since 13th March (pre-lockdown), so it was…
House Fest 2020
House Fest 2020 We’ll look back on this Blog post in years to come and wonder how we all got to the position where we had to hold a festival…
Ralf’s First Absinthe Adventure
Ralf’s First Absinthe Adventure It seems like forever since we’ve been out in Absinthe, partly because the weather has been so bad, but also because Ralf arrived with us in…
Camp, Cook, Dine
Camp, Cook, Dine Occasionally, I come across products that I think are so good that I have to share them on the Blog so that other van owners can get…
Glawning Owners Group Meet at Ettie’s Field
Glawning Owners Group Meet at Ettie’s Field The Glawning Owners Facebook Group has almost 2,000 members now, so it seemed high time that we should have our first low key…
Dubs in t’Dales 2019
Dubs in t’Dales 2019 This was our second visit to DITD (we went in 2017 too) which is held on the Camp Hill Estate in North Yorkshire. As regular readers…
A Long Weekend in Leyburn
A Long Weekend in Leyburn We’d arranged to meet some of the family and their children at The Forbidden Corner near Leyburn on Tuesday, so decided to make a long…
Outsidegang Freebird Outdoor Cooler Table
If you’re a regular to this Blog, you’ll have seen us singing the praises of one of our newest pieces of kit, the Outsidegang Freebird Outdoor Cooler Table, and I’m…
Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival 2019 It’s a couple of years since we last visited the Edinburgh Fringe, so on Friday we set off to the Ninja Pop Up Site, close to Edinburgh…
Llamas, Lions and Lederhosen
Llamas, Lions and Lederhosen Larmer Tree Festival We’ve not been to Larmer Tree Festival since 2014, so it was high time to head that way again. The venue is on…
Putting the Cart(mel) before the Horse(s)
Putting the Cart(mel) before the Horse(s) We’d been invited by family to share a Party Tent at the June Cartmel Race Meeting, which is sited just outside the beautiful village…
North East is Best…
Mighty Dub Fest – Alnwick We’ve booked quite a few Festivals this year – some we’ve been to before and some, like Mighty Dub Fest, where we’ll be first…
A Little Gem of a Site – Ettie’s Field
A Little Gem of a Site – Ettie’s Field Alison and I had a discussion recently about which were our favourite camp sites in the UK. The list was always…
Glampfest 2019
Glampfest 2019 Those lovely people from Glawning had organised their wonderful festival, Glampfest, for May, in the usual venue of Ivy Bank Campsite in the beautiful village of Kirkby Malzeard…