Parenting on the Wild Side

Day 7 16th June Reaching the Park! Today our aim was to get into the National Park. It was so hard to judge distance and terrain and es...

In the absence of a new trip report to share, I thought I'd write about the trips we took to Sweden a couple of years ago. This was T an...

To the amusement of our friends, T and I are the very proud owners of a food dehydrator! We bought it in 2011 after trying to work out how t...

One of the biggest weekly decisions in our house is where to go walking at the weekend. Yes, we have the wonderful Mountain Buggy Urban Jung...

What to dress B in when going walking is always a bit of a dilema. We have good kit for ourselves which we've built up over the years an...

We LOVE Macpac in our family. We have three MacPac rucksacks which have accompanied us on long treks and a brilliant Macpac tent . My husba...

We've been testing out the Mountain Buggy Urban Jungle on some pretty rough tracks and so far we're really pleased with how it cope...

Well, we finally made a decision and the buggy arrived today. In the end we went for the Mountain Buggy Urban Jungle as it seemed to be the ...

I had the Connecta sling on loan for 2 weeks and used it 5 times. The fit was good and B seemed comfortable enough but I only managed to use...

We made a decision... and it's here... full report to follow!

I've borrowed a Connecta baby carrier  www.connectababycarrier.co.uk  from a sling library. I'm looking for a carrying solution whic...

We tried B in the Baby Bjorn www.babybjorn.co.uk  today for just the second time. The first time wasn't v successful, we hadn't prac...

The other day we went on a short ramble along a track. It wasn't particularly rough but we got stuck in all the fallen leaves. At the mo...

My husband and I are outdoorsy types - birdwatchers, naturalists, conservationists both at work and in our spare time. Weekends are spent w...