camping

What I wish I knew before my first camping trip with kids – by Kirsty from Get Kids Outside

August 10, 2017 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

It’s not often I host non book related guest posts on this blog, but I think actually it might be a nice way to introduce my readers to some of my blogging friends – and Kirsty is someone I’ve known since before I started to blog. Yes, we really do go back *that* far. We’ve […]

Filed Under: guest posts, places we like Tagged With: camping, camping with children, Get outside with kids, Kirsty Bartholomew

Perfect moments

June 17, 2015 By Jax Blunt 6 Comments

When the rain starts 5 minutes after you get back to your tent after a long warm day. When your 3 year old picks up a diabolo lying on the sward and can almost work it. When you speak to your other half and say a friend went on a supermarket run so you asked […]

Filed Under: places we like, Reenactment Tagged With: camping, country kids, Kentwell hall, reenactment

Keeping God’s hours.

June 15, 2015 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Well nearly 😉 We tell visitors that we rise with the sun. I was awake at 4, but I didn’t crawl out of my lovely warm sleeping bag until 6, to do a bit of remedial work on the page’s jerkin. Morning’s are worth it here. Today we’ll be welcoming school parties from neighbouring counties. […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: camping, Kentwell hall, reenactment, vango

De stuffocation and a digital detox.

June 12, 2015 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

It’s Kentwell time. I’m not ready. I’m never ready. I trudge through my days frittering time away and then suddenly panic that the deadline is upon me. I don’t know why I do that. I think I’m getting worse at it, or maybe it’s just that there are more of us to get ready. (Where […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: camping, De stuffocation, digital detox, Kentwell, Kentwell hall, reenactment

My camping emergency kit

June 9, 2015 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

I took up camping way back in 2004, and for the first few years, the most we needed in the way of emergency kit was a newspaper to stick in the doorway and a dustpan and brush for removing excess sand. In more recent years though, I’ve experienced split poles, torn tents, and leaks. And […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: camping, inventive uses for nappies, tent repairs

The last camping trip of the year – win with Equip+

September 22, 2014 By Jax Blunt 7 Comments

Will take place next weekend, and sadly, I won’t be on it. It’s Tudor Michaelmas at Kentwell Hall. Tim is going to chop wood. Big will be in the Still room, and Small will revise his role as a page. I decided that it was too late in the season to risk with the very […]

Filed Under: giveaway Tagged With: camping, equip+, Kentwell hall, tent repairs, Tudor reenactment

Saving the pennies and saving the pounds.

April 27, 2013 By Jax Blunt 8 Comments

Thrift is a big part of our day to day life here. Partly because I don’t like waste, partly because with six of us at home every pound has to be persuaded to go that little bit further. So reading on Tattooed Mummy that Money Supermarket are looking for £30 ways to save a pound, […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: camping, eco friendly, hand me down, house swaps, money saving, recycle, reuse, Thrifty, top cashback

Summer gratitudes.

August 5, 2012 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

Camping holidays with friends old and new. Good books to read in the sun. Grubby children sleeping through the night. Friends who collect the wine you forgot. Internet connection where you were told there was none. Shared elation over Olympic triumph. Sunshine after a sudden storm. Above all, I’m grateful for a life that allows […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: BritMums, camping

Norwich Camping

May 9, 2010 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

As I believe I mentioned earlier, on our way to our recent camping trip we stopped off at Norwich Camping to buy a couple of things. Amongst our purchases was a melamine crockery set and an Outwell Calabash Picnic Rucksack. While we were away, one of the melamine mugs cracked, and once we got back, […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: calabash, camping, norwich camping, outwell, price promise

Blickling hall.

May 9, 2010 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

While we were camping at Deersglade campsite, most of our friends spent bank holiday monday at Bewilderwood. As a family we didn’t fancy that – we’re not good at queuing, and I had a feeling queues may be involved on a bank holiday. Instead I’d taken both our National Trust and English Heritage handbooks and […]