April 2025

Over the Christmas period we had a fire in our cabin, which thankfully wasn’t serious despite burning for over an hour. Phew!!!!! I’m always so careful so I have been very cut up to have failed to prevent such a situation. I am relieved beyond words the fire was contained and my cabin saved! Come […]

So this was really fun! We learnt how to smoke moose! Which… like you’d imagine for smoking something, it’s really important your fire doesn’t cook the moose but only smoke it; although, that’s not necessarily something you would twig before being told that. So we built a tent and got set to making it nice […]

As World Book Day 2021 is virtually upon us and the one year anniversary of my Arctic Adventure expedition with X Platoon and Cold Skills arrives simultaneously, I would like to share some books and photos that provide some celebratory musings for remembering both. As part of this treat, for you and definitely for me, […]

Hi everyone, I am so sorry not to have a blog post fro you today. I am having trouble with my computer, so it’s going in for a service. I do have some really fun things to tell you about though, so please come back and by next week I should be sorted (hopefully)!

Since childhood I have had an ardent love for the shipping forecast broadcast on BBC Radio 4. I do believe I’m not alone in this and many more of us than first appear, have been soothed by that seafaring repetition, always followed at midnight by the very distinctly old world melody of ‘Sailing By.’  Nowadays […]

I know that crumble may not be the first thing that comes to mind during the summer months but I assure you, this is so light and bursting with flavour and juiciness, you’ll want to make it. And because… if you have a food processor, preparing this is lightening fast. I originally started writing this blog post […]

Adventure, Arctic Circle Sweden, Armed Forces, Cabin Living, Camping, Cloud Formations & Beautiful Skies, Cross Country Skiing, Forest Life, Respectful of Nature & the Animals, Scandinavian, Shot On An iPhone, Survival & Bushcraft, Swedish Traditions; Sauna

Please accept my sincere apologies that I haven’t managed to post any blogs for you for two weeks now. I have been extremely preoccupied, first with illness in the family and various other commitments and responsibilites . As I’m not able at this time to write very much for you, I’m leaving you with a […]

This is one of my most favourite photographs ever! I just love how my little son is trying to colour while struggling to see past the oversized dressing up costume hat that’s covering his eyes! Burghley House in Peterborough Stamford, is a superb stately home worth a visit if you’re ever down there. I’d even […]

I’m thanking God this evening for another blessed Lord’s Day of ministry and fellowship albeit distanced with fellow believers. This verse is a comforting one for any Christians discouraged at this time. From the book in the Bible called Philippians (as in from the country Philippi) chapter 1 & v.6 . “Being confident of this […]

I ate Bruschetta today. Not the one shown in the picture made magnificently by my son, but in an Italian restaurant in Manchester; also splendidly made and presented. I also ate chicken wrapped in pancetta served kebab style with peppers and red onions, peas and bacon in a creamy sauce and truffle Parmesan fries. It […]

In April this year, I was privileged to be able to visit China and Hong Kong on business with my husband.  For a variety of reasons, not least that I love Chinese people, and their delicious cuisine, and that I am very hungry for opportunity to travel, I was pretty certain I was going to […]

Having six children means one of two things: bunker-in and try to survive by covering all the bases and keeping things simple; or go crazy, break the mould and have fun by being a bit bonkers. We’ve chosen the latter. So, at the end of another tiring day of boating, ball games and other frantic […]

Do you know who Osbert Sitwell is?! No, neither do I, but I found a good few of his books sitting on a shelf in one of the hallways in Sizergh Castle in Kendal Cumbria. I’m curious to find out more about him now.  If Sizergh’s bookshelves are anything to go by, at the very […]