What I want for Christmas..
This is no easy task for me..what I want for Christmas!!!!! This is my third Christmas in the UK and after the absolute cracker of a winter we had last year, I ended up with all a girl could ask for...
I'm in training..
...for a marathon - 26 miles or 42 kms. It's a long way and can be run as quickly as 2hrs 3min and 59 sec - a record held by the Ethiopian runner Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin in 2008. Paula Radcliffe...
No more frozen tears..
There's a single solitary tear rolling down my cheek and the worst part is it's not freezing. Winter has moved on in the Lake District and all that beautiful snow is now just a distant memory and a...
Seriously, who throws a map?
The Atlantic Ocean lies before us and it’s the end of week 2 in Morocco. It was a week of high highs and low lows.After leaving the Sahara Desert we headed into Marrakech, the cultural capital...
We have sand in every orifice known to man and Landy
We’ve been in Morocco for a week and it’s been amazing. We’ve seen camels, driven over sand dunes, haggled for a Fez in Fez and have become connoisseurs of mint tea and...
Christmas has come early in Keswick
We must have been very good boys and girls in Keswick and Grasmere this year. Christmas has come early.Our trip to Morocco starts tomorrow..Friday the 6th of November and we have been flooded with kit...
It's a boy!!!
We have a new addition to our trip..we are very proud to announce that it's a boy. A big bundle of joy from the St Albans store - Phil Kirk will be the fourth member of our expedition to...
We could go clean skin but are happy and proud to be branded
It's less than 3 weeks away and the tension is building. Landy number 2 has been jacked, stacked and now just needs to be packed. Landy number 1 has been ready since forever but now sports some rather...
