I’ve just returned from a brilliant birthday weekend in the Lake District with my dad and sister.Every year, we try to take a little birthday camping trip because my dad’s birthday is on the 4th, and mine is on the 5th, so it’s nice to make a weekend of the celebrations.We booked three spaces on… Read more: Birthday Camping Trip

I completed the two-and-a-half-day hike along the East Coast!I battled heat, sunburn, and blisters and walked around 39 miles from Hinderwell, just next to Runswick Bay, to Scarborough. This was my first ever multi-day hike. I’ve always wanted to do one but somehow never got around to it. Partly because I didn’t have anyone to… Read more: A Cracking Good Walk

Last weekend, I finally bought the paint for Noah’s new front wing, which was damaged a few weeks ago when the gate blew into it while I was driving through.I’d already sourced a new wing a few weeks back at the painful price of £119.00. I was initially quoted £90 when I called up to… Read more: Home Improvements and Adventure Packing

This week, I’ve come to Ivy Bank Stay-Cation, a farm campsite in the village of Kirkby Malzeard. It’s a great site where I holed up for most of last winter. They won the Vanlife Awards Campsite of the Year a couple of months ago, which was great and has seen a big boost in business… Read more: A change of Scenery

The weather this week has been awful, and I find myself wondering where the summer has gone. Of course, this is not unusual for North Yorkshire, but it would be nice to have the top up on the van again. When I bought a pop-top campervan, I did so with the thought that I would… Read more: Leaky Lids and Growing Chicks

This week, the cottage saw the arrival of some new tenants. The tenants in question will not be paying any rent. Nor will they be helping with the cleaning. By the look of them, all they’re currently capable of is eating and snoozing. Their eyes are still closed, and they don’t have any feathers yet.… Read more: Ugly Babies

Great things have been achieved this week! The Big May Clean is almost complete.It’s taken longer than anticipated, but I’m on the home run! All but the highest Alien Spiders have been evicted, and the Juicy Window Spiders are grumpily rebuilding their webs after I cleaned the windows.  Just one of many pans of dust… Read more: Grumpy Spiders and a Power Upgrade

I mostly live the Vanlife in my trusty campervan, Noah. Noah is a short-wheelbase Ford Transit Custom with a pop-top roof and very little storage space. I love him dearly and have just spent a wonderfully cosy winter travelling around different campsites in the UK. I bought Noah in the middle of last year after… Read more: A bit of a backstory