Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Yep, we’re at it again – camping in the garden that is. Morgan, Anna and I only have September and December to tick off in order to get our Bronze Dragon Award. We have a Scout camp planned for December so thought we’d tick of September last night as well with a night under canvas in...
The Scouts seemed to enjoy their shelter building evening in the woods that we organised for their last meeting. They all got stuck in building some pretty impressive shelters and all want to do it again with the plan of actually sleeping in them. Looks as though Anna and I have another shelter building evening...
We are continuing to do our best to give the Scouts an opportunity to complete their Bronze Dragon Award. This requires them to sleep under canvas during every month of the year. We did January and February over the course of one weekend and last weekend managed to organise a March camp too. Organising and...
We’ve decided that the Scouts should try to get their Bronze Dragon Award Badge. In order to do so, they need to camp outside under canvas in every month of the year. It can be done over the course of a few years, but it does mean sleeping under canvas in the winter months. The...
We have visitors coming this weekend – Well, actually they are arriving Sunday night for a couple of days. It’s my Sister Trudi, her boyfriend Mike and he children Kia an Shaun. As we only live in a small(ish) bungalow we don’t have huge amounts of room for them, mainly because one of our bedrooms...
We’ve just got back from another excellent weekend away camping for free in Wales courtesy of Chain Reaction Cycles and their series of MTB Marathons and Road Sportives. Morgan was on one of the floats in the Borth Carnival dressed as Doctor Who on Friday, so we packed the camping and cycling kit while he...
As I’m sure you know by now we are at last having a proper summer. It’s been a while coming -10 years since the last one as far as we can remember – but it’s here and looks set to stay for a while too. Weather conditions have been perfect here in West Wales. Whilst...
Phew, we survived – and as far as I know the Scouts enjoyed themselves too. We have all just got back from a Scout camp that Anna and I organised. Since becoming Scout Leaders we have been on a couple of camps but this was the first one that we had organised and run on...
My knee coped with the CRC MTB Marathon on Saturday so I was all geared up for the Vitus Sportive on Sunday. After a decent nights sleep in the tent we were up and eating breakfast under pretty ominous looking skies. It wasn’t raining in the campsite but there were dark low clouds surrounding us...
Phew, we’ve survived the Ceredigion Area Scouts Jubilee Camp that took place in the grounds of Llanerchaeron house.. As new Scout and Explorer leaders this was out first camp with them and it all went well. It was of course a little hectic but there were plenty of activities for the children, including archery, catapults,...
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