Cotton Wool Children Don’t Play Outside : The might if they had somewhere to play
Wrapping Our Children in Cotton Wool is stopping them enjoying outdoor play, an article in today’s Daily Mail reports, highlighting some depressing statistics from Play England http://mrkt.ms/wgtQ6L
Here’s some of the highlights (well lowlights):-
“children are less than a… Read More
New years resolutions? Pah. Quit while you’re ahead.
I tried out a few new years resolutions in the first two weeks of January, and pleasingly quickly found that none of them really fit the bill: after three days of obsessive eating, no-meat-no-wheat was axed after a trip to… Read More
A Lament for January and Celebrity Workouts
Oh January, January, what have you done wrong? All the other months seem to have found their own special niche; December’s ‘festive’, crisp autumnal October gets Halloween, May with its special day and bank holidays feel celebratory , November gets… Read More
If any inspiration was needed…
Yesterday whilst wobbling around the woods with the dogs I met this very nice old chappie. Given that I can rarely find people who like to keep place with my speedy stomp we struck up a conversation as only the… Read More
A weekend in Snowdonia, at Plas-Y-Brenin, Brenin Beer, winter skills… Bendigedig!
A weekend in Snowdonia, at Plas-Y-Brenin, Brenin Beer, winter skills… Bendigedig! Although planning a winter skills course well in advance of the onset of snow was a clear punt too far, and yes you guessed it dim eira!*
But not… Read More
New Year…Old Habits!
Another year begins…..
The turkey has finally been finished off, the last of the wine guzzled and the tinsel packed away…the festive period is now just a dim and distant memory.
So what now?
Enter stage right the ‘New… Read More
